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By DON VITEK | July 24, 1994
Keith Clark has been associated with the duckpin center in Brooklyn for 15 of his 32 years, which is only fitting for the new owner of the 14-lane duckpin house that has been in the same location for generations."
SPORTS
By DON VITEK | January 31, 1993
Doug Blair of Fairfield, Pa., has been bowling tenpins for 10 of his 15 years.A sophomore at Fairfield High School, he bowls in the Young American Bowling Alliance league on Saturday mornings at Fort Ritchie lanes and on Sunday in the Youth Interstate Travel League.On Jan. 17 at County Lanes, Westminster, Blair pounded out games of 279, 256 and 204 for a 739 series. That tops the 719 set by John Feeley and the 720 thrown by Philip Henderson in the Interstate League.That 279 game and 739 set were Blair's career-high numbers.
SPORTS
By DON VITEK | December 12, 1993
Ben Kavalsky, Rodney Walker and Bryan Sober bowl duckpins in the Fair Lanes Pikesville youth league on Saturdays; Kavalsky and Walker are in the Sunday Travel League bowling out of Westview, too.All three are off to a roaring start.Kavalsky, 15, fired games of 155, 126 and 203 for a 484 series in the youth league, and he's thrown a 476 set in the travel league.The 203 game and 484 set are career highs for him. He's averaging 131, up six pins from last season.Kavalsky, the son of Barbara and Robert, of Owings Mills, has two brothers and a sister.
SPORTS
By DON VITEK | February 20, 1994
Bowl America Reisterstown played host to the Parents-Coaches Association's 1994 No-Tap Tournament, which featured youth tenpin bowlers from centers in Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Carroll counties and the Washington area.Fanisha Le'Nai Alexander, 9, of Baltimore finished in first place in the Bantam Girls Division.She bowls in the Bunky Travel League at Fair Lanes Towson and carries an 86 average with a career-high game of 156."Fanisha began bowling last year," her mother, Faith, said. "Her whole concept was to bowl like her daddy, but she's developed a style of her own. Most important, she remembers to keep fun in the game."
SPORTS
By DON VITEK | September 19, 1993
The Young America Bowling Alliance Saturday morning leagues are in action.And nowhere will the action be hotter than on the lanes at Bowl America Odenton. The young bowlers are rolling at a record-setting pace."There are over 120 youth bowlers signed up," Charley Thompson said. "Opening day we had Joe Castricone entertain with his magic show, and that was just great. And we're fortunate to have the parents become deeply involved with the YABA here at Bowl America."Thompson, a coach in the YABA for 10 years and a board member for two years, knows how important it is to have parents take an interest in the youth program.
NEWS
By Donald G. Vitek | July 25, 1991
Linda Moltz started bowling nine years ago. She lives in Edgewood with her husband, Preston, a pressman for The Baltimore Sun papers, andher two daughters, Shannon, 18, and Kristy, 17.She's a computer operator and bowls in the Tuesday Morning Trios at Crofton Centre.Preston started bowling last year, and already he's averaging 150. Shannon just started this year."She's getting better every week," Linda said. "She's averaging about 140 now."Linda is doing a little better than that. Her average is 180 and her high game is 267. Not bad figures, but she's more proud of the series that she threw onJuly 16 in the Tuesday Morning Trios league -- games of 223, 213 and215 for a powerful 651 set.You're probably thinking to yourself,'Here's a lady who cranks up the big hook with a 16-pound bowling ball.