900 Must Be Approved To Go Into Record Book

Jeremy Sonnenfeld is back in class at Nebraska, astounded and waiting to see if he makes the record book as the first bowler to roll three perfect games in a three-game series.

The nation’s sanctioning body is working to confirm the 900 series the 20-year-old business major bowled during a tournament Sunday.

“If this is approved, it would be the first 900,” Mark Miller of Bowling Inc. said Monday. Miller’s Milwaukee office handles media relations for the American Bowling Congress and other sanctioned organizations.

At first glance, Sonnenfeld’s series appears to hold up to sanctioning scrutiny, Miller said.

“But it’s not official until we’ve checked everything out,” he said. “We’re working right now to see how fast we could put it all together. Everything has to be right. It has to meet all the rules.”

“This is totally unfathomable to me,” Sonnenfeld said. “I mean, I hit the pocket every time, but every shot I threw wasn’t perfect. I had a lot of good breaks and things like that.”

An ABC official said there have been at least four 900 series reported, but none was officially approved for various reasons.The 900 series came during the Junior Husker Tournament, a fund-raiser for the Nebraska bowling team. The event was sanctioned by the ABC and Youth American Bowling Alliance.

The format has Nebraska bowlers competing with junior bowlers and rotating lanes every game. Instead of bowling his three games on two lanes, Sonnenfeld did it over six.

“I had to go from pair to pair with each pair being a little different,” he told the Lincoln Journal Star. “I had to try and figure them out and stuff like that. It was even more difficult, which makes it even more incredible.”