Maple Lake Bowl and Pines Bar and grill
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Welcome to the Maple Lake Bowl website. Jerry and Lynette Pettit, the owners, would like to invite you stop in and see the changes that have taken place over the past year. The Pines Bar & Grill is a great place to meet your friends or to make new ones. If you're hungry, try one of their burgers, they are hand pattied from fresh ground beef and are big enough to fill your hunger. In The Pines they have a Juke Box, dart board, a fireplace and a new big-screen TV for all the great sporting events like Wild Games, Timberwolves Games, Twins Games, Vikings Games, and Nascar!!

SATURDAY NIGHTS

Looking for something that's very inexpensive on a Saturday evening? How about bowling!!!!! During open bowling you only pay $1.50 per game and that is after league bowlers bowl 3 games FREE. That means: 4 bowlers @ 3 games each plus 3 adult beverages each comes to a total of $14.25 per person and that means less than $4.75 per hour. Can't go to the movies for that!!!!

-- Posted by: Jerry on November 30, 2009

 

WEDNESDAY WING NIGHT

Stop in to The Pines Bar & Grill for awesome wings. The wings come in Teriyaki, BBQ and Buffalo. And they are only $.20 each. It starts at 5 pm and goes until they are gone.

-- Posted by: Jerry on October 9, 2009

 

300 GAME on 3-3-2009

It's been since 1998 that a 300 game has been rolled at Maple Lake Bowl, that was by Roger Elletson, but DAN BONK now has his name added to those that have thrown perfect games. That list is very short with Roger Elletson with two and Jim Farrier with one.
Dan had his 300 in his first game on Tuesday Nite Men's league. He was bowling in the second spot for William's Decorating and finished the night with a 670 series. Dan was carrying an average of 175 at the start of the evening.

-- Posted by: Jerry on March 4, 2009

 

MINNESOTA STATE STANDINGS

For the up to date standings at the Minnesota State Open Championship go here:
http://www.mnstatebowl.org/Open/Results/TRdefault.htm

For Minnesota State Mixed click here
http://www.mnstatebowl.org/Mixed/Mdefault.htm

For Minnesota State Womens click here
http://mnstatebowl.org/Women/TRWdefault.htm

-- Posted by: Jerry on February 3, 2009

 

Bowling Ball Maintenance

Here I will try to explain the maintenance a bowling ball needs and the difference between cleaning and resurfacing a bowling ball.
First step keeping your bowling ball clean: If you take a close look at your ball after every shot there is a series of oil rings around it, these are called your 'track line'. It would be best to clean the ball after every shot but that would not be practical, you'd be slowing play down', so it is best to have your pre-shot routine include wiping the ball down before every shot. After every 3 games you should use a good ball cleaner, either some Isopropyl Alcohol or a cleaner bought from the pro shop, to remove the lane grime, belt marks and oil that remains on the ball.
With more expensive reactive or particle balls you need to take even more steps to keeping their performance at a high level. These balls are made to absorb oil even though oil is what slows down their performace and so they begin to lose that hard hitting power as soon as you start to use them. There is a way for you to keep them hooking hard and delivering the strikes that you had hoped for when you spent that couple hundred dollars. Remember if they did not absorb oil you would be just as well off using a hard plastic ball or a house ball. Soaking your ball in very hot water, not boiling, is a good way to remove the oil that it has soaked up, Also taking your ball to the pro shop and having it cleaned and resurfaced is a good way to restore the like new condition, but that gets us to resurfacing which is our next topic.
Resurfacing a ball is putting the coverstock back to the condition of new or/and adjusting the coverstock to make the ball react differently. During this process the track line is removed by sanding with a coarse grit and working up to a finer grit. Depending on the line a bowler wants to take on the lane a ball may be finished at a final grit of 500 or sanded to 4000 and/or have polish applied. The shinier and smoother the ball is the longer it will travel down the lane and the more power it will hold for the backend.
This is a brief explaination of cleaning and resurfacing and stop and see me with any questions you may have. Good Luck and Good Bowling, Jerry

-- Posted by: Jerry on January 10, 2009

 

IT'S PARTY TIME

Whether you are looking for a spot for a birthday, bachelor (bachelorette) or whatever, we are the place for you.
Our birthday party package includes the following: bowling, bowling shoes, a pitcher of soda for every 4 bowlers, a 12" pizza for every 4 bowlers, a happy birthday bowling pin and you are allowed to bring in cake and ice cream for your guests. The cost is $9 per bowler.
Give us a call or send us an e-mail and make your reservation today.

-- Posted by: Jerry on March 10, 2008

 

IF YOU EVER WONDERED

When you get three strikes in a row why do they call it a turkey? Well, in the early years of bowling getting three strikes in a row was not a very common occurance. When a person did accomplish this feat the owner of the establishment would award them with a turkey, a live turkey. Receiving a live turkey for three in a row has since ceased but the term has remained. Now you know.

The score recorded the fewest times in bowling is...................................292. The only way to get this score is to get 11 strikes in a row and on the last ball get only two pins. You know how hard is is to get 11 strikes but then to get only two pins on the last ball has to be almost impossible. The next time I have 11 in a row I'll see if I can get a 292.

-- Posted by: Jerry on December 20, 2007

 

FUN FACTS

#1. Bowling is the #1 participant sport in the U.S.. How many people bowl?
#2. What kind of wood are bowling pins made of?
#3. What is the age of the oldest person to bowl a 300?
#4. What is the age of the youngest person to bowl a 300?
#5. What is the life span of a bowling pin?
#6. What does a bowling pin weigh?

FIND THE ANSWER ELSEWHERE ON THIS WEB SITE

-- Post Category: About Maple Lake Bowling -- Posted by: Jerry on November 22, 2006

 

ANSWERS TO QUIZ

#1. There are 68 million people bowling in the U.S.
#2. Bowling pins are made of hard maple grown in the north where winters make the wood harder.
#3. The oldest person to bowl a perfect game was 87 years old.
#4. The youngest person to bowl a perfect game was 10 years old.
#5. The life span of a bowling pin is 12 - 18 months.
#6. A bowling pin must weigh between 3# 6 oz. to 3# 10 oz.

-- Post Category: League News -- Posted by: Jerry on September 21, 2006

 

Top 10 Reasons to Bowl in Maple Lake

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-- Post Category: Coupons, Discounts, and Deals -- Posted by: Jerry on August 8, 2006

 

GIVE AWAY FOR LEAGUE BOWLERS

League bowlers at Maple Lake Bowl may stop every day of the week and bowl 3 FREE games. There just isn't any reason not to stop in and raise that average by getting in some pratice. And if you are thinking of a new ball or new shoes, Jerry will be happy to help you out. Spend $9.00 on any product of the bar or grill and receive up to $9.00 towards your bowling.
This is a way for Jerry and Lynette to thank their league bowlers.

-- Post Category: About Maple Lake Bowling , -- Post Category: Bowling News -- Posted by: Jerry on August 3, 2005

 

Pro Shop

Make sure you take a look at the extended inventory that we now have at the Maple Lake Bowl Pro Shop. Over 20 different styles of shoes, many balls, bags, and all your bowling accessories. Get a new ball and have it drilled for you as you wait.

JUST FOR THE ASKING a 10% discount on any purchase of over $75 just by letting Jerry know you saw this on his web page.

-- Post Category: About Maple Lake Bowling -- Posted by: Jerry on August 22, 2004

 

Welcome

Welcome to MapleLakeBowl.com. We've built this site to let you get to know more about Maple Lake Bowl and The Pines Bar and Grill.

-- Post Category: About Maple Lake Bowling -- Posted by: Jerry on February 14, 2004

 





 

 

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Maple Lake Bowl
320 Maple Ave N.
Maple Lake, MN 55358
320.963.5555