GUERNSEYMAN Bob du Feu has come tantalisingly close to the perfect tenpin score. He scored a massive 1017 pins in a scintillating four-game series in the new-format Twilight League.
‘It’s my best ever total score without any shadow of a doubt by a long way. It’s not easy to produce it over two or three games and I’m still on a high,’ said the 53-year-old trust manager yesterday.
‘I keep pinching myself to believe it - the conditions were good on the night and I was striking really well. Sometimes it just goes all right and you are dialled into the lane.’
He missed the perfect game by one strike in the ninth frame of his final one - giving him a score of 279.
‘Even the nine spare pin did wobble - I was that close to getting the perfect 300. I was not too disappointed,’ he said.
The Island Bowl’s general manager Harry O’Neill, described the achievement as ‘magic bowling’.
‘That is bowling World Cup standard - that is top drawer. That is what you would expect from a top Swede or American,’ he said.
‘The perfect 300 game is not far away.’
Derek Tomlin and Ali Prigent are the league leaders with 26 points with du Feu in third place with 22.
He is off next weekend to the Wirral to represent Guernsey in the Senior Triple Crown tournament for over-50s.
Along with the rest of the league bowlers they are preparing for a busy schedule of competitive bowling, starting with the qualifying rounds of the Island Championships, then team selection for the Triple Crown finals in Jersey.
Those will be rounded off in September with the qualifier for the Bowling World Cup in Russia in November.
The inter-insular against Jersey is held the same month at The Island Bowl.
Guernsey’s junior bowlers are preparing for the Spring Singles tournament later this month.
The centre boasts a very talented group of young bowlers benefiting from the coaching and competitive league structures.
n Anyone interested in bowling can contact 710444.
Article posted on 14th April, 2007 - 12.00am
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