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<ALL ACROSS OUR STATE, MEMORABLE MOMENTS UNFOLD EVERY DAY. IT'S ONE THING TO HEAR ABOUT THEM LATER. AND ANOTHER TO BE IN THE ROOM WHEN THEY HAPPEN.> <LIKE THE MOMENT THAT, EVEN SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, KEEPS SPINNING AROUND JEFFERSON'S TOWN SQUARE.> THE CRACK OF EXPLODING PINS-- <STRIKE.> LURES IN BOWLING ADDICTS-- <I BOWL FIVE TIMES A WEEK.> WHO LOVE TO SEE THEM FALL - EVEN WHEN ONE-GAME- A-YEAR LUCK - STRIKES -- <STRIKE.> FOR A NEW BOWLER. <THEY GET THREE OR FOUR IN A ROW AND THEN IT'S LIKE, NOW YOU'RE WATCHING BECAUSE YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO NEXT.> CARTER FECHER FOUND A LOT OF GUTTERS WHEN HE STARTED. <I WAS AVERAGING 30 WHEN I WAS NINE.> SO NOW THAT HE BOWLS ON GREENE COUNTY'S HIGH SCHOOL TEAM, HE LOVES IT WHEN THAT PAIR OF VELCROS-- <VELCRO.> SHOWS UP ON LANE SIX WITH HIS OWN BALL. <BAG ZIPPER OPENS.> AND THEN PIERCE ABBOTTS - <DELIVERY (GOES TO WORK) STRIKE.> THE JEFFERSON NINE YEAR OLD CAUGHT THE BOWLING BUG WHEN HE WAS SIX. AND SOMETHING - STRUCK. <STRIKE.> HE COULD EXPERIENCE THE SAME HIGHS AND LOWS AS HIS DAD. <IT'S A LOT OF FUN FROM A LOT OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS, BUT IT'S ALSO JUST AS FRUSTRATING SO... LAUGH.> WHILE HANGING WITH THE BIG BOYS ON VARSITY - <MULTIPLE HIGH FIVES.> AND SOMETIMES BEATING THEM. <HE WAS BEATING ADULTS. YEAH.> YES - PIERCE USES TWO HANDS. <IT HELPS ME BECAUSE I'M NINE.> BUT PLENTY OF PROS DO TOO. <SO YOU CAN INCREASE THE WEIGHT OF YOUR BALL AND THROW IT FASTER.> SMACKING THE PINS IN THE PERFECT SPOT SO THEY ALL FALL. <THE ONE TAKES OUT THE TWO, FOUR AND SEVEN AND THEN THE THREE TAKES OUT THE SIX AND TEN. AND THEN THE BALL TAKES OUT THE SEVEN, EIGHT AND FIVE.> THE GUY IN THOSE SIZE THREE VELCROS DOESN'T MESS AROUND. SO NO ONE FLINCHED WHEN PIERCE ENTERED JEFFERSON'S NEW YEAR'S EVE TOURNAMENT - <I HAD A STRIKE. (AND STARTED THROWING). STRIKE. (AFTER) STRIKE.> <HE THREW GOOD BALL AFTER GOOD BALL AFTER GOOD BALL.> <ONE OF MY FRIENDS STARTED TALKING ABOUT ME.> <PEOPLE KIND OF STARTED TO TAKE NOTICE.> SAYING-- <I'LL GIVE YOU 20 BUCKS IF YOU SHOOT A 300.> <ABOUT AFTER THE FIFTH, SIXTH FRAME, HE COULDN'T MISS.> <I WAS ACTUALLY BOWLING RIGHT HERE.> <I WAS BOWLING ON 9 & 10.> <IT GETS AROUND THE WHOLE ENTIRE BOWLING ALLEY.> <THEY STARTED GATHERING AROUND.> <WE ALL JUST STOPPED AND JUST WATCHED.> <NOBODY WAS TALKING TO ME.> <SO THEN WHEN IT'S EIGHT IN A ROW, THEN IT'S LIKE, ALL RIGHT, I BETTER START WATCHING.> <I WAS LIKE - GEEZ. HE'S STRIKE AND STRIKE AND STRIKE AND STRIKE. IMPRESSIVE.> <HEY, YOU KNOW, PIERCE IS ON TO SOMETHING.> <HE'S NINE. THAT'S CRAZY!> <YEAH BECAUSE HE'S NINE. I MEAN NINE YEARS OLD. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T SEE NINE YEAR YOU DO IN BOWLING.