Video: CNY bowler sets world record by rolling 300 game in 86.9 seconds
Bowler Ben Ketola sets world record with fastest 300 game
By M.F. Piraino | Contributing writer ...
on April 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, updated April 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM

Syracuse, N.Y. -- How fast can a bowler roll 12 consecutive strikes and achieve a perfect game?

For Ben Ketola, the answer is 86.9 seconds.

Ketola, of Preble, is believed to have recorded the world's fastest 300 game at the 10-lane 281 Bowl in Cortland on April 5 by rolling 12 strikes in 1 minute, 26.9 seconds. The 23-year-old two-handed bowler raced from one lane to the next and registered strikes using a different ball on each lane -- striking twice on lanes 1 and 2 -- to score 12 in a row for a perfect game in approximately the same time it takes to microwave a bag of popcorn.

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"It was fun to do. I honestly wasn't expecting to do it," said Ketola, a 225-average bowler who works and bowls at 281 Bowl. "I just wanted to see how quickly I could get across the house and get strikes. ... I saw it as a challenge. ... Next time I may set up all spares on the lanes and see how fast I can make those."


Read more at: http://www.syracuse.com/bowling/index.s ... _game.html

Turk Sanderson wrote:Around here, running down the line, bowling on everyone-else's alleys, will get you beat-up before you made maybe your third strike. That alone would make a good drinking game. How many alleys, before you got your ass kicked...

JMC-STL wrote:

Turk Sanderson wrote:Around here, running down the line, bowling on everyone-else's alleys, will get you beat-up before you made maybe your third strike. That alone would make a good drinking game. How many alleys, before you got your ass kicked...

I bowled with guys in college who would occasional cross over to the next lane, but not on purpose. More often, the more illegally served Jack & Cokes they'd consume. That's also the "motivation" I used to bowl my highest score ever. Left-handed. Amazing what focusing on not falling down will do for your game.

Turk Sanderson wrote:Does this mean that you were rolling the ball with your left hand, or that you saw three lanes and shot for the one on the left?