Matt Latarski said, "I couldn't miss." He rolled three perfect games, breaking his previous high score of 814 two years ago. He began bowling at age 5 and may now become the 16th bowler in history to roll a 900.
View full sizeMatt Latarski uncle Kurt Latarski snapped this photograph of the scoreboard after Matt's 900 series. OAKWOOD, Ohio -- A 23-year-old Medina man bowled a 900 series today at Roseland Lanes in Oakwood.
Matt Latarski said, "I couldn't miss."
He rolled three perfect games, breaking his previous high score of 814 two years ago.
Once the United States Bowling Congress verifies the score, Latarski will become the 17th person to score a 900 in the history of bowling.
According to the USBC's website, a 22-year-old, left-handed Middletown, N.Y., man became the 16th bowler to roll a 900 in October, and a Belleville, Ill., man in March became the 15th bowler in history to roll a 900.
One bowler accomplished the feat twice, USBC spokesman Pete Tredwell said today in an e-mail, so it has happened 18 times.
Latarski started bowling when he was 5.
He, his grandfather, father, uncle and brother bowl in a league every Sunday at Roseland.
Latarski's team, Two Studs & an Old Guy, includes his brother and an older friend. They attracted a crowd Sunday morning as they bowled the last frames of the third game.
By the 10th frame, everyone else in building had stopped bowling, and Latarski was nervous, he said.
"You could have heard a pin drop," Latarski said.
The U.S. Bowling Congress will visit Roseland Lanes this week and inspect the lanes Latarski used. If the lanes, pins and Latarski's ball were in proper condition, Latarski's name will go in the record books.
He'll receive a ring for the 300 games and another for the 900 series, he said.