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Josh Buls rolls perfect
game, talk continues of bowling becoming high school sport
C.J.
Cummings - Arrow
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The
stereotypical image of bowling is not a pretty one. When the words "bowling
alley" come to mind it's easy to envision a large single man smoking
and rolling balls, bad music in the background and a stain on his shirt.
Or it may be giggly seventh graders covered in highlighter on a Friday
night, cosmic bowling in little cliques.
Nothing seems too athletic about it, yet it is a sport
that takes precision, skill, and a little bit of luck. All kinds of science
goes into bowling, from making sure the lanes are perfectly level and
flat and smooth, to making balls with off-center balance points so they
get better rotation. It's so much more than a boring Saturday night.
"Bowling is fun," says junior Katie Schumacher.
"I tried out for every sport in school and I made the bowling team
because there's no cuts. I just started to like it. It's competitive but
you know all the people so it's like a group of friends. We have fun days
where we just cosmic bowl and stuff. It's fun."
FHS student senior Josh Buls recently bowled a perfect
300 during a league competition, the first junior bowler in Kalispell
to ever roll a 300.
"It actually takes a lot of skill and concentration,"
says Buls. "It was really nerve wracking. It was a lot of pressure
towards the end of the game. My hands got really sweaty and I thought
I would roll a gutter ball."
"He works hard and he listens and will only get
better because of that," says Vince Red Elk, the league bowling coach.
"It was pretty amazing when (Buls) bowled that 300."
Red Elk has a plan to make bowling become a school sport.
"We got started too late in the fall," says
Red Elk. "But next year I will try to make it a club sport. We'll
try to run that on our own for three years, then present it to Montana
High School Association to try to make it a letter sport."
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