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Warwick Lanes was so quiet you could hear a pin drop - or in David Maycock's case - 10 pins drop.

Battling nerves and a throng of people hanging on the final toss of his 15-pound Hammer ball, Maycock rolled a perfect game.

With the pressure off, he ran the length of Warwick Lanes screaming "I'm on top now!"

Such was the elation for the 24-year-old bowler after picking up his third perfect game.

For the uninitiated a 300 game is a perfect game in bowling - a score of 12 consecutive strikes.

It was Maycock's second sanctioned 300 - the other was in practice - and he had to battle nerves as a throng of people circled around him.

Maycock said he was half way through his team's game when he started thinking about bowling a 300.

"I thought I had a shot at it after five strikes in a row. One of my mates came to me said 'This condition of the lanes is to easy for you. You'll do good on this.' Then after eight strikes in a row he came back to me and told me 'stay calm, relax.' I said to him "I've been here before - Come on now, I've been here before.'

He was on lanes 15-16 and it was a case of history repeating itself. Seven years before this is where Maycock rolled his first sanctioned 300.

He said that even though the lanes were rolling well for bowlers "I still had to execute to make my shots. If I didn't make good shots, the ball wasn't going to react."

Maycock said he bowled a good ball on the first 11 strikes with the 12th being the one most in doubt.

"I was very nervous. I sat down to relax and thought what I had to do because I've been there before. I breathed and executed. A lot of it is mental and just thought about bowling.

"Everybody did start crowding around the lanes and made me more nervous, but because I've been there before, I just took my time and let the other people bowl first to clear my head out and take good shots.

"After I made it, there was a big reaction from the people. I ran across the whole lanes and hit the wall screaming 'Yes, baby! Number two sanctioned! What are you going to do now?! I'm on top now!

"Everybody started giving me hugs. I had good support. It was a good feeling."

Maycock was introduced to the sport when he was four by his mom and always had someone to roll with as his older brother Chris participated. Along the way he's received good coaching from Dean Lightbourn, Antoine Jones and Rolf Basden.

Maycock has represented Bermuda in the international arena with a ninth place finish in the Pan Am Games, a fifth in the Tournament of the Americas and multiple appearances in the World Championships.

Next month Maycock will try and win another Bermuda Rendezvous title - something he has won three-years in a row and also possibly taking another run at the Southern Regional Bermuda Pro-Am title. Last year he came third and would like to climb the ladder's final two rungs.

And after that?

"The next step is to try and go pro."[[In-content Ad]]

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