With the holiday season behind us, it was once again time to get down to business with the 31st season of GutterAlley action. Thirty-two bowlers across eight teams will duke it out over 16 weeks as one team will make its way to winning it all and be named the champs of the Spring 2015 season. While the majority of the league showed up to kick off Week #1 action, one team was mysteriously absent...Kicking the season off on the first pair of lanes, last season's 2nd and 3rd place finishers did battle once again in a roller coaster of a matchup. Behind an impressive start for his season, Aubrey Moren stepped up for 10 Pins 10 Balls to deliver a 610 series and the firepower necessary to take Game #1. Not to be outdone, Carl Goetz put up a 602 series for Sponsored by Rogue (comically misspelled "Rouge" on the monitor) to tie the teams at a game piece after Game #2. Game #3 came down to the 10th frame as the 10 Pins managed to outdo their opponents but not by enough to overcome the total pins loss in the second contest to end the night in a 2-2 split. Sponsored begins their season in 4th with 10 Pins 10 Balls immediately behind them in 5th place. Dennis "Pops" Laube was this week's Most Valuable Bowler.Lanes 43 & 44 had a slew of interesting occurrences happen on it – from two bowlers needing to make a hasty exit and finishing their evening on a separate pair of lanes to a career accountant not able to work a calculator to do simple math as well as a number of intentional gutterballs all in the name of victory. Despite all of these shenanigans, the Amazeballs came away with a 3.5-0.5 matchup victory over opponents Ballz Out. The Amaze's Ryan Doll intentionally guttered his way to a season-starting 539 series to nearly take the cake but fell just a little short in securing the first week sweep. Cliff Barendsen seems to have put last season behind him and came out firing with a 570 series to start the season in 6th. Amazeballs quickly finds themselves in 2nd place after their orchestrated start.Having finished last season in 1st place, Gimme Headpin wasted no time whatsoever at returning to the top of the perch. With the best bowler in league history away for a golf tournament, Kody Karnes donned the Superman cape and emphatically led his team to a 4-0 victory over opponents The Pin is Mightier with his 710 series. Not surprisingly, Karnes was this week's #1 Power Ranked bowler. Putting out the most firepower for Pin Is was...wait, are you serious?!?...Scott Murdock with his 471 series. Gimme Headpin starts out in 1st while The Pin Is Mightier finds themselves in 7th place.On the final pair of lanes, the Squirtin' Tunas were presented with both a blessing and a curse when first week opponents Split It & Hit It were no shows. This enacts the good old league rule in which a 4-man team must bowl within 40 pins of their team average in order to secure a victory. So how did it all play out? With anchor Aaron Barber putting up a solid 630 series to kick off the Spring session for the Tunas, the team still managed to let Game #1 slip away by the tiniest of margins to debut with a record of 3-1. The wins put the guys in 3rd while, big shock, Split It & Hit It begin their season in the cellar. An all points bulletin has been put out to find our fearless foursome.The Tournament of Champions, just like Big Brother, is watching you already. Your average at the end of Week #3 will officially place you within your division this season so get those scores up (or down, depending on where you want to end up). Starting out the Spring session in style by visiting The 200 Club this week was: Aaron Barber (221, 219), Aubrey Moren (247, 201), Carl Goetz (221), Cliff Barendsen (215), Ian Goetz (216, 213), Ken M. Wilson (210, 206), Kody Karnes (217, 225, 268), Phil Schroeder (226), Rob Kaszuba (223), and Seth Gunderson (205).See you next Tuesday!

THIS WEEK'S MVB Dennis Laube Runner Up: (See Posting)	#1 POWER BOWLER Kody Karnes Runner Up: Aaron Barber	#1 H2H BOWLER Kody Karnes Runner Up: Carl Goetz
FROM THE GUTTER (GUTTER QUOTE) "I've been bowling all these years and had no idea there was an option to move to another pair of lanes when your team is bowling too slowly." Aubrey Moren, after watching Cliff and Chadwick move down to bowl out quickly.