Editor’s note: This is part one of the column. Part two will run in tomorrow’s Tribune
Putting together the greatest women’s bowling performance in Erie County history, Holben – throwing 22 consecutive strikes – shot the lights out in High Rollers League at Eastway Lanes for the second time in the last month by breaking her not-for-long house series record 813 with eye-popping 257, 290 and 299 games for a mind-blowing 846 series, setting the Erie County women’s series record.
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