Local 12-year-old becomes youngest female to bowl 300 game in Missouri
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. (KCTV) - Some bowlers go their entire career without ever rolling a 300 game, but that’s not the case for 12-year-old Averie Bourne of Liberty. On Sunday, she became the youngest female in Missouri history to accomplish the feat.
Bourne’s 300 game came in the Missouri Bowling Proprietor’s Association Family Tournament. She rolled 12 consecutive strikes. Ask Bourne, and she’ll tell you she believed she had a 300-game in her – just not quite yet.
“It was very unexpected,” Averie said.
Bourne has been bowling since the age of 5, under the close tutelage of her grandfather, Jerry Ferrell. Ferrell owns Tiger Bowl in Excelsior Springs and bowled his first 300-game when he was 16. He says Averie’s 300-game – at 12-years-old – is preposterous.
“Totally unheard of,” said Ferrell, who has more than 20 certified 300 games in his career. “An absolutely incredible feat.”
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Averie has won youth tournaments all over the area and is one of the top youth bowlers in the region. She wants to continue bowling at a high-level in the future.
“I want to go to college and hopefully become a professional,” she said.
For now, Averie is in the record books as the youngest Missouri girl to ever roll a 300.
“I’m so very, very proud of her, and not just because she is my granddaughter,” said Ferrell. “When you get to that 10th frame, and you’re getting ready to bowl those last three strikes, the adrenaline is pumping pretty fast. As Michael Jordan would say, ‘You’re in the zone. Stay there.’ She did it quite well. She did it with great authority as far as on the lane and with the bowling ball. She just killed it.”
Averie says she practices at least three days a week and is looking forward to more 300 games in the future.
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