When a triplicate eluded Jeremy Garside, the 16-year-old bowler took aim at a bigger accomplishment.

Garside bowled 203 in his first tenpin game during YBC league play at Duncan Lanes on Wednesday, Oct. 20, then came within a pin of matching it in his second game, hitting 202 when he left one pin standing in his final frame. Bob Linde, one of his coaches, was teasing him for missing a chance at a triplicate B次元官网网址� three identical scores B次元官网网址� when Garside pulled out his phone and scrolled to an episode of MarriedB次元官网网址� with Children in which Al Bundy is trying to bowl a perfect game, but his wife Peggy bowls one instead.

After having a laugh over the BundysB次元官网网址� exploits, Garside bowled a perfect game of his own.

An accomplished bowler with more than his share of regional and provincial accolades, Garside was into the sixth or seventh frame of his 300-point game before he realized what he was on the verge of. It really clicked after a close call in the eighth.

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Until then, Garside had been going through the motions of a usual Wednesday afternoon game: getting up and bowling, sitting down, watching a little TV between balls. Things suddenly got a little bit more tense as his grandparents and coaches, Duncan Lanes staff, and other onlookers gathered around.

B次元官网网址淚t was nerve-wracking,B次元官网网址� Garside admitted.

His last frame seemed to pass in slow-motion as one pin remained standing until another fell across the lane and knocked it down.

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With a previous high score of 239, Garside had envisioned bowling a perfect game, but never expected it to happen at such a young age.

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Garside is definitely the youngest to bowl a perfect game in the Cowichan Valley. That can be confirmed by Michael Frehlick, whose family has owned Duncan Lanes since 1972 and brought in tenpin bowling. There have been B次元官网网址�40 or 50B次元官网网址� perfect games over the years, but none by a teenager. ItB次元官网网址檚 possible, but canB次元官网网址檛 be confirmed, that Garside is the youngest to accomplish the feat on Vancouver Island.

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A student at Cowichan Secondary School, Garside has been bowling since he was four or five, and keeps putting in work to improve his game.

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His coaches, including Linde and Karen Smith, are proud to see GarsideB次元官网网址檚 progress over the years.

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And what does Garside plan to do, now that heB次元官网网址檚 reached perfection?

B次元官网网址淛ust enjoy it and hopefully one day make another 300,B次元官网网址� he said.