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 Bowling is more than a game to George Holscher. After severing his spine in an accident in 1990, bowling made him feel like a regular guy again. Last week, the 48-year-old Chesapeake resident reached perfection, becoming the second person ever to roll a 300 game from a wheelchair.
That's 12 strikes in a row - the Holy Grail of the sport.
"I know I said I can't feel my knees," Holscher says, "but let me tell you, they were weak."
The alleys offer a rare opportunity for the disabled, said Gary Ryan of the American Wheelchair Bowling Association: "They can be competitive. They can go out and bowl with the able-body on an equal playing field."
Holscher's big game came during ordinary league play on Monday night at Indian River Lanes - where the house went ballistic after No. 12 hit the pocket like a guided missile.
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 Congratulations to Doug Scott, normally a left handed player, for becoming the first in Canada (to be verified) to achieve the oddity of bowling a perfect game as a right hander as well as a leftie.
On Sunday Doug bowls in the Empire Lanes 6:30 Nascar league as a right hander. On October 7th, 2012 Doug finally got to his goal of bowling a perfect game right handed. That day did not start off looking like anything unusual was going to take place since he started the evening with a 144 game. But then it happened. His second game was the illusive right handed 300 he was looking for.
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 Perfection is something we all try to achieve in all we do. In the sport of bowling, wheelchair or not, perfection is defined as a score of 300. That is 12 consecutive strikes, the last one or two with many people watching and hoping to see a perfect game.
Though confined to a wheelchair, Shawn Beam took up the sport of bowling nearly 22 years ago, seeing it as a great opportunity to spend competitive time with his friends.
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 Canadian PBA exempt player, Dan MacLelland; wins $30,000 top prize in The International Mini held last Sunday (Feb. 5th) at Sunset Station's Strike Zone Bowling Center in Las Vegas, Nev.
The 2011 Canadian Bowlers of the Year bypassed the first four rounds of the Gold Division finals after winning the division's Bye Tournament on Saturday evening.
Seeded right into the divisional finals, MacLelland eliminated Ildemaro Ruiz- of Venezuela, and reigning PBA Player of the Year Mika Koivuniemi, a native Finn, who lives in Howell, Mich., in an all-international final, 245-190-188.
Ruiz, who has made three TV finals in the PBA World Series of Bowling this season, and Koivuniemi received $2.000 each.
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 Team Canada member Dan MacLelland, Windsor, Ontario, lost in the first match of the televised final of the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Masters tournament, one of the Professional Bowlers Association major events. ESPN televised the final, live.
Bryon Smith, Roseburg, Oregon defeated him 251 – 212. It was MacLelland’s first TV appearance. Smith won the 2003 Masters.
Smith was defeated in match #2 by the eventual winner Mike Fagan, Dallas, Texas 228 – 180.
Fagan met the tournament leader Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas in the final and won 246 – 213.
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 Korey Reichard of Jackson, Mich., became the youngest bowler to roll a certified 800 series when the 10-year-old right-hander had games of 265, 257 and 278 for an 800 series January 21. The record is unofficial until the required paperwork has been filed and verified by the United States Bowling Congress.
Reichard rolled the 800 while competing in the AMF Singles league at AMF Summit Lanes in Jackson.
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 MIAMI -- Don Carter, the bowling great with the unorthodox style who flourished as a genuine sports celebrity during the game's golden age on TV, has died. He was 85.
Carter died at his home in Miami on Thursday night, the Professional Bowlers Association said Friday. He recently was hospitalized with pneumonia complicated by emphysema.
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On Nov. 30th 2011, The "Buckets on Deck" team blasted a 1,434 game at Harvest Lanes in St. Peters, Mo., breaking the old mark for a 5-person team game of 1,413 set by O.T. Hill's in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Mo., on Feb. 15, 2001.
That team included retired PBA Tour champions Leroy Bornhop (278) and Randy Lightfoot (278), as well as John Weber (300), son of the legendary Dick Weber, older brother of PBA Hall of Famer Pete Weber and the manager of the PBA's Senior Tour and Regional Tour. The other members were Jim Hankemeyer (278) and Mike Goodin (279), USBC reported.
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