Andrew Teall didn''t plan on bowling this season. After finishing off the 2008-09 season with a 228 average in 90 games, he wanted to take a break.
But after the 24-year-old Medford resident''s father, Tom, injured his left knee late last season and underwent surgery in August to clean up a torn meniscus in the joint, Andrew was added to the roster. He has been filling in for his father on a team called Wipeout in the Monday Night Invitational League at Medford Lanes since play started Sept. 14.
That twist of fate led to the younger Teall staring down Lane 9 Monday, one strike away from knocking down his 36th consecutive strike with a Roto Grip Cell. This is the second 900 shot with a Roto Grip Cell. Ron Case, a Roto Grip staff member shot a 900 in a 9 pin no tap tournament. Although the tournament was a 9 pin no tap format, Case used 36 real strikes to accomplish the feat. His 900 was unsanctioned however due to the tournament not being sanctioned by the USBC.
When the right-hander''s ball took down all 10 pins, he made history.
Teall recorded just the 15th sanctioned 900 series in the history of bowling (six other 900 series are unsanctioned) since 1895 according to the United States Bowling Congress, the national governing body for the sport based in Arlington, Tex.
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http://rotogrip.com/bowling-news/story.asp?enewsid=4368&intl=FalseEdited on 11/19/2009 5:10 PM
