Strike One, Strike Two, And Strike Twelve? Baseball season may be right around the corner, but you won't see a strike eleven or a strike twelve on the ball field. You'll need to drop in at your local bowling alley to see that many strikes. In fact, most people over the course of their lifetime will never see twelve strikes in a row. Getting twelve strikes in a row translates to the perfect game, a 300. For a bowler, professional or amateur, this is their hole-in-one, their holy grail. Professional bowlers may bowl a few of these perfect games over their career, but for the amateur bowler this is usually a once in a lifetime event, if ever.

Brian Crites, 52, of Parker, Colorado gave the crowd at Brunswick Zone in Lone Tree something to talk about when they went to work last Thursday. Crites, who carries a 170 average in his Whacked Out Wednesday bowling league, put on a bowling clinic on February 25, 2009 when he mowed down 120 straight pins, that's twelve strikes, on his way to the perfect 300. Bowlers on other lanes, BZ staff members and customers in different parts of the bowling alley stopped what they were doing and came to watch Crites roll his last couple of frames. He did not disappoint the crowd that had gathered. When the last pin fell the crowd erupted in cheers and congratulations. Crites raised his hands above his head and let out a loud roar as he joined an elite crowd of perfect bowlers who managed to strike out in their dream game.

When Crites was asked how he felt about his perfect game he stated "I sure was stressed those last couple of frames. I was afraid my thumb would stick in the ball, I'd hit my ankle with the ball, I'd fall over or slip or a thousand other things that could have gone wrong and am still amazed that it happened. It is totally surreal for me and not something that I thought would ever happen".