The Fond du Lac senior bowling league’s have completed another banner season. Highlighting the 2009/2010 men’s season was Larry Secord, who at age 75, set a Fond du Lac Bowling Association (FBA) senior league record series of 859 on games of 300, 279 and 280. Secord’s gem was also the highest series rolled [...]
The baby boomers of the post World War II era are coming of age. Many are now retiring and have more time to enjoy one of America’s greatest pastimes–bowling! The senior leagues around Fond du Lac are a place where, on cold Wisconsin winter days, new retirees can get out of the house, [...]
It’s never cold during the winter in the bowling establishments when the fellows of the Fond du Lac senior leagues are burning up the lanes with some hot kegling.
The alleys barely had a chance to cool down after “The One,” Larry Secord, scorched them at Parkway with his phenomenal record 859 series (300, 279, 280) [...]
With the start of a new year, senior league bowlers in Fond du Lac have not let up on their torrid pace from last year. Some of the higher scores during January include Norb Wetzel’s sizzling 793 series, including games of 289, 279 and 225; Dave King’s astonishing 780 series, which included games of 277, [...]
The 19th annual WOMEN’S SINGLES SCRATCH TOURNAMENT held this past weekend at Karl Ray Lanes in Fond du Lac, was once again well attended with 83 women bowlers participating in the 3 divisional event. In the 190 and over average Division I, Linda Bard won the Division’s Championship rolling games of 236, 235 [...]
By George Kulas
When Larry Secord walked into Parkway Bowling Lanes on Wednesday carrying his Ebonite “The One” bowling ball, little did he know that by the time he left he would be “The One.”
At 74 years young, Secord is now the one with the highest three-game series ever rolled by a senior league bowler in [...]
Jason Buerger is on pace to break the all-time single season record for perfect games in the Fond du Lac Bowling Association. Buerger might not only shatter the record, he might double it up.
Buerger has five perfect games through the first eight weeks of league play, and is on pace to roll a mind-boggling 20 perfect games [...]
Dave Wightman reached the pinnacle of his bowling career this summer when he was inducted into the Fond du Lac Bowling Association Hall of Fame during the annual Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet held at Ledgeview Center inside Ledgeview Lanes.
Wightman got an early start to his bowling career at West Side Lanes back in the early [...]
He handled a disruption in practice and disappointment in his first game to roll games of 295, 244, and 279 for an 818 series, his second career 800 series in the Fond du Lac Bowling Association.
McDermott just got done with his warm-ups when he was summoned by teammate Chip Gilgenbach to help get his equipment [...]
