Record-setting night
BUTLER TWP — He’s only human.
But on the night of Feb.10, Mike Rouda put forth a super-human effort while bowling in the Armco C League at Sherwood Lanes.
Rouda compiled games of 276, 300 and 299 for an 875 series — including 30 successive strikes at one point — in breaking the record for highest three-game series in Butler County history. The previous mark of 870 was set during the 1998-99 season by John Bulger at then Freeway Lanes in Zelienople.
“I didn’t know the man, but I knew of that record because I used to bowl at Freeway Lanes,” Rouda, 49, of Connoquenessing Township, said. “I never thought I’d have a shot to break it.”
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