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A frictitious day at the Madison Area USBC Senior City tournament

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, October 22, 2023 11:00 pm
A frictitious day at the Madison Area USBC Senior City tournament
Madison Area USBC Senior City Tournament team leaders, left to right, Terry Dunn, Rick Erce, Tim Morris and Chris Gibbons. Photo by Madison Area USBC.
The word on the 2023 Madison Area USBC Senior City tournament has been that the lanes at Middleton Sport Bowl are hooking. We competed on Sunday and they are hooking so much that in a Facebook post I used the term frictitious, an oldie but a goodie from the Midwest PBA dictionary that was coined by Jeff Carter. Hooking a ton seems to be the status of many centers in the Madison area, which shouldn’t be surprising as balls keep getting stronger and centers seem to use less oil than they...