Week 21 of Bill Mastronardi’s Masters league was one of the highest nights of the year thus far, and not surprise it came at Potters Alley.

 

On Monday night a handful of teams were trying to get themselves within range of the top spot as position round will take place next week at Sunset Lanes in Pekin.

 

When the night started Plaza Lanes and T&D Windshield were the top two teams battling for the top spot, and they so happened to be bowling each other.

 

Plaza went into the night with a 19-pin lead, and after capturing 30 out of a possible 50, they head into next week at the top of the standings. It could have been much more, but thanks to a 12-0 sweep in game three, T&D was able to at least limit the damage as much as possible.

 

As I noted above, it was a big night on the lanes for many teams, including the Team of the Week who were able to jump from 4th place into 2nd after putting together a team series of 2995, with help of Bowler of the Week Tommy Barnwell who shot 842 with 299 the last game.

 

Plaza & Striketown will be the two at the top of the standings next week during position round, but things could get a bit interesting if the pins fall the right way for Linn Lanes who is in third, trailing the top spot by 26 pins.

 

It would take things to go nearly perfect for them to jump both teams ahead of them. Not only would they need nearly a flawless night, they would need a very odd final total from Plaza and Striketown next week.

All I am saying is crazier things have happened, it is just highly unlikely. The math is still there, it will just be very hard.  

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​On a night with a lot of strikes I for sure thought the Strikeout pot would be broken at Potters, but it was not.

 

Two teams had a very good shot at breaking it, but a few bad breaks left them short. It will sit at $1,260 dollars next week, meaning if a team were to break it, they all would get $315 dollars apiece.

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WEEKLY STATISTICS

 

​​​​​It was a good night in terms of the overall average for the league.

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Before the night started, the league average was 216.87, but after 38 of the 44 bowlers raised their average on the night it increased over a pin to 217.95

it dropped to 216.91.

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93 of the 144 games were bowled over the 216.87 mark, the most this season. Only 9 bowlers saw their average decrease.

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​In addition to Tommy shooting 299, Travis Anderson for the second week in a row shot 300, the league now sits at 5 800s, 9 300s on the season.

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TOP 3 TEAM SERIES – JANUARY 12TH, 2026

1 – 2995 – STRIKETOWN

2 – 2846 – LANDMARK

3 – 2833 – PLAZA LANES

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TOP 3 TEAM SERIES – JANUARY 12TH, 2026

1 – 1048 – STRIKETOWN

2 – 1028 – MORTON INDUSTRIES

3 – 1010 – PLAZA LANES

 

CURRENT LEADERS

High Average

1 – 236.68 – Tony DeVita

2 – 234.43 – Travis Anderson

3 – 230.67 – Tommy Barnwell

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Standings

1 – Plaza Lanes – 314 - 186

2 – Striketown – 295 - 205

3 – Linn Lanes – 288 - 212

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