ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, October 28, 1996 TAG: 9610290018
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
In 22 years of bowling, Mike Lyle never had done anything like this.
Lyle rolled his first 300 game at Vinton Bowling Center on Sunday, while bowling with his Vinton Merry Mixers teammates.
The 44-year-old, whose average is a 192 game, bowled a 235, a 191 and a 300 for a 726 in league play.
Lyle said he didn't start to think about the possibility of a perfect game until the ninth frame, and teammates Barbara and Terry Karnes and Martha Thomason were talking to him all the way - well, almost.
``I was getting ready to bowl the last ball and everybody got quiet, and I stepped off the line and said, `What is everybody getting quiet for?''' Lyle said.
Lyle, who has been competing for the Vinton Merry Mixers for about four years, also bowls Friday and Saturday nights.
In other news in the region:
* Brian MacFarlane scored in the 77th minute to lift Virginia Tech to a 2-1 victory over Temple in Blacksburg, its sixth consecutive men's soccer triumph in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
The Owls got on the board first with a score from Gregg Beideman in the 21st minute, but the Hokies' Stanislav Licul scored in the 40th minute to pull Tech (11-6 overall, 7-3 Atlantic 10) even. The Owls are 3-11-1, 1-7-1.
* Virginia Tech junior Katherine Chen defeated William and Mary's Michelle O 6-2, 6-3 to win her singles draw at the Old Dominion Invitational in Norfolk.
* K.J. Hippensteel won three singles matches to advance to today's final of the boys' 16 Mid-Atlantic Championship at Sedgewood Tennis Club in Bluefield.
Hippensteel beat Jeff An 6-0, 6-0, Jete O'Keeffe 6-0, 6-4 and Ashok Raju 6-2, 6-3. Hippensteel, the top seed, will play the No.2 seed, Yorke Allen, today for the title.
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