- April 17, 2024
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After losing a match last week by a pin, the Seabreeze Sandcrabs came up short again, this time against the Matanzas Pirates on Thursday, Sept. 4, at the Palm Coast Lanes.
The Sandcrabs won the second round 884-862, but the Pirates were too dominant in the others. Josh Fuller, the Volusia and Flagler county leading bowler, recorded a 718 for the match, just one shy of Matanzas’ Christian Sikes.
At the beginning of the match, the Pirates’ Erik Irwin chased a perfect game with eight straight strikes before ending it on the ninth attempt.
The Sandcrabs played well enough to win on any other day, but they competed against a team that was on a roll. Both teams had scorers roll over 200 points in single rounds, and two of the three rounds were determined by fewer than 30 points.
Meanwhile, the Lady Sandcrabs dominated a short-handed Lady Pirates team. Alexis Zemball rolled three strikes in a row to finish her second round.
Coach Paul Shuler, while losing, went away confident that his team would rebound.
“It’s still early in the season,” he said. “By the end of the year, I believe that we will be able to compete with the best.”
