WARRNAMBOOL tenpin bowler Matt Hill fell four pins short of a perfect game five months ago.
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He wasn’t about to let history repeat when the opportunity to score a 300-game came knocking again.
The university student scored his first registered perfect game on Thursday night while bowling in the moonshiners league.
“I was pretty rusty in the first game and struggled really badly,” Hill said.
“I couldn’t do anything right at all and then it came together in the second game.
“I scored 159 in the first one, 300 in the second and I don’t know what I finished with in the third, maybe 230.”
I couldn’t do anything right at all and then it came together in the second game
- Matt Hill
Hill, 23, said it was a thrill to score a perfect game, some 10 years after taking up the sport.
“I had a 296 probably four or five months ago and with the last shot I cracked under pressure,” he said.
“I had bowled a 300 before this but it wasn’t in a registered tournament so it didn’t get recognised, so that was a bit disappointing. That was two years ago in Melbourne.”
Hill’s perfect game comes after fellow Warrnambool bowler Jackson McGifford achieved the same feat earlier this month. Like Hill, it was McGifford’s first perfect game.