Perfect Game Lost On Last Ball

Mark James was trying for a gold ring. What he got was a mounted bowling pin.

James, 27, who has been bowling most of his life and seriously since he was 15, was within one ball of collecting his first perfect game when he left a solid 10 pin on his 12th ball in the Friday Fivers league at Colonial City Bowl Sept. 15.

He settled for a 299, and got a pin as a consolation prize.

“My boss took one of the pins out of the machine, put in on a base and gave it to me,” said James, who is a pinsetter mechanic at Colonial. “It says, ‘The one that got away.”’

Softball

WTB/Coeur d’Alene RV Resort went 3-2 and Sports Cellar of CdA 1-2 in the 109-team ASA men’s Class B slowpitch national tourney last weekend in Shreveport, La.

Bicycling

A weekend of family fun is on tap Oct. 6-8 in Winthrop, Wash., in the ninth annual Methow Valley Mountain Bike Festival.

There’ll be competitive downhill and cross country races, but most of the weekend is devoted to low-key, family-oriented activities.

Riding starts at 9 a.m. Oct. 6 and 8 a.m. Oct. 7 and 8.

, DataTimes