Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Blind, 94-year-old bowler still rolling

CENTRALIA, Wash. (UPI) -- Esther Medley of Centralia, Wash., can't bowl as many games as she used to, she's legally blind and 94, but she still manages to roll over 200 on occasion.

Medley isn't about to give up the sport she's been doing so well for so many years -- only now she bowls by sound instead of by sight. She even met her current husband at Fairway Lanes in 1979.

On a recent outing, the Seattle Times reports Medley threw three strikes while warming up. Her high game is a 287.

Medley and her 86-year-old husband, Ralph, plan to celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary Friday by going bowling, of course.

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