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The Young American Bowling Alliance headquarters doesn't keep county records noting the youngest bowlers to set individual records, which is too bad.There's a great chance that 14-year-old Andy Carson, who posted a 300 game this month in the Travel League at Bel Air Bowl, is the youngest to shoot a perfect game in Harford County.Starting with the 300, Carson added games of 188 and 191 for a 679 series. That's 20 pins higher than the 659 he posted in January when he had games of 243, 209, 205.Carson was using a new Piranha bowling ball, fitted and drilled by Joe Bonny.

Submitting sports notices Email sports copy to howardcountysports@patuxent.com by 9 a.m. on Monday. Baseball The 12U Undertaker baseball program, an expansion of the Maryland Chill softball charter, is looking to establish itself in the Howard County region. The team will continue the formation of its new team with final tryouts on Aug. 17 (9 a.m.). Tryouts will be held at the Columbia Chinese Baptist Church (5005 Waterloo Rd, Ellicott City). For more information, email one of the following: bskram-5@msn.com , mdchill@comcast.net or howell.family1@verizon.net . Tryouts for the 12U HCYP Raiders travel baseball program's A and B teams will be held throughout the month of August.

Tom Biebl, general manager of County Lanes in Westminster has issueda general invitation to the bowlers of Carroll County."On Saturday night at 7 p.m. if you want to see some real good bowling, stop inat County Lanes and watch the Interstate Traveling League bowl."He's right. The league has several dynamite tenpin bowlers, including Harry Baker.Baker works as a mechanic at Terrace Lanes near his home in Frederick and bowls out of County Lanes in the InterstateTraveling League. The league includes 22 teams from Carroll, Frederick and Washington counties as well as Pennsylvania, with some centersentering as many as five teams.

Submitting sports notices Email sports copy to howardcountysports@patuxent.com by 9 a.m. on Monday. Baseball The 12U Elkridge Hurricanes travel baseball team will be holding tryouts for the 2013-2014 season Aug. 4 at 1 p.m. at Elkridge Landing Middle School (fields 15 and 16), and Aug. 11 at 1 p.m. at Rockburn Park Field 7. Potential players must turn 12 after April 30, 2013. Call 410-598-6421 or email cjconnell@comcast.net , or call 240-413-6912 or email doug.link@hosthotels.com for more information and to register. Visit http://www.eyosports.org for more information.

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."

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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Mount Hebron High has set the standard for high school girls' lacrosse in Maryland. The Vikings have won six straight state championships and turned out numerous solid college players while dominating the sport at the precollege level in Maryland for the past dozen years. Part of that success is breeding travel programs that are extending the sport's traditional spring season to a virtual year-round affair. Two of the programs are intended to teach girls the sport and to showcase the athletes to colleges, their leaders say. The Hero's Tournament Lacrosse Club and M&D Lacrosse have their roots in Mount Hebron and Howard County.

A NEW ERA in area youth soccer begins this weekend at Roberts Mill Park in Taneytown.Francis Scott Key Junior Eagles Soccer Club kicks off its regular season at its new home Saturday, and the group has a morning ceremony planned to dedicate its fields, show appreciation to the city for their construction and celebrate opening day.Action at the new park starts with an 8: 30 a.m. game between the Francis Scott Key under-10 boys B team and Reisterstown/Owings Mills,...

The Young American Bowling Alliance headquarters doesn't keep county records noting the youngest bowlers to set individual records, which is too bad.There's a great chance that 14-year-old Andy Carson, who posted a 300 game this month in the Travel League at Bel Air Bowl, is the youngest to shoot a perfect game in Harford County.Starting with the 300, Carson added games of 188 and 191 for a 679 series. That's 20 pins higher than the 659 he posted in January when he had games of 243, 209, 205.Carson was using a new Piranha bowling ball, fitted and drilled by Joe Bonny.

The Young American Bowling Alliance City Tournament was conducted at Bowl America Odenton over two weekends, Nov. 25-27 and Dec. 3-4, and produced some interesting results.Jason Huestif, who bowls in the Saturday morning YABA league at Greenway Odenton, rolled his career-high three-game series on the first weekend of the City Tournament.Throwing a 16-pound Dragon ball, he posted games of 248, 245 and 212 for a 705 set that was high for the boys.Coached by Hugh Siar, Huestif takes bowling in stride.

The North-South Challenge Match drew 38 youth duckpin teams from Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Washington to T-Bowl lanes in Hartford, Conn.The Fair Lanes Travel League team of Jeremy Kavalsky, Laurie Keatts, Michael Kiskis, Marlon Bradshaw and Shaun Rutherford finished third in Division I. Randi Kavalsky captured both high average (124) and high individual game (178) in Division I.The league consists of eight teams of quads from five Fair Lanes centers -- Eastpoint, Middlesex, Westview, Perring Parkway and Pikesville.

Wilson Blizzard Sr. and Jr. both are duckpin bowlers. Last season Wilson Sr. averaged in the high 130s and Jr. in the low 140s.But this year the younger Blizzard is pounding the pins at a little higher rate, holding 154 currently in the Monday Quads at Fair Lanes Westview.Better know as Whipper, a nickname that his father gave him, the younger Blizzard appears to be headed for a career year.The Hampstead resident has been bowling for 20 of his 23 years. He bowls in the Friday Travel League, too."

Jim Weaver, the new manager at County Lanes, brings 30 years of bowling experience to the Westminster center.Weaver, a resident of Hanover, Pa., brings a strong commitment to the bowlers of the area, a commitment that will be implemented with bowling clinics at County Lanes for all who want to learn the tenpin game or raise their averages."

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."