BRUIN— Aaron Weckerly bowls three times a week. But he's never bowled like this.

The 14-year-old boy, in his sixth year in the Bruin Junior League at Bruin Lanes, bowled a perfect game Dec. 14 at the facility.

The 300 marked the first perfect game rolled in the league's 12-year history. Weckerly also became Butler County's youngest bowler to record a perfect game during league play.

He didn't bowl the 300 with the rest of his league participating during its usual Saturday morning time frame. He rolled it while pre-bowling the night before. His two younger brothers and his parents witnessed the feat.

So did members of an adult couples league that was bowling the same night. In fact, the 12-lane house was filled and everyone stopped to watch Weckerly complete his 10th frame.

"I couldn't feel my arms and I couldn't feel my legs,"Weckerly said. "The place got so silent. It was nervewracking.

"All I did was focus on hitting my mark."

He didn't bowl with his league that Saturday because "my mom wanted to go to Grove City and my brother had basketball practice,"Weckerly said.

Bruin Lanes is not known for producing a lot of 300 games. Its owner, Dan Persic, said the house averages two per year.

Trent Slater bowled one there recently while competing in the men's traveling league. The house's all-time high series of 846 was notched by Barry Barger earlier this year as well.

"What Aaron did was monumental,"Persic said. "He just happened to be hitting that night. We could see him getting better because he bowls so much."

Besides the Bruin Junior League, Weckerly, a freshman at Karns City High, bowls in the Bruin Junior-Adult League on Sundays and is a member of the Karns City Bowling Club, which bowls at Bruin Lanes every other Wednesday afternoon.

Weckerly's average is 144. His previous high game was 227. His overall series that night was 608, as he bowled the 300 in the second game and sandwiched it with a pair of 154s.

"My first seven shots were all in the pocket,"Weckerly said. "In the eighth and 10th frames, I got a couple of Brooklyns (hitting the pocket on the opposite side).

"The last pin might have wobbled and fallen a couple of times, but most of the shots were good."

Persic said no one rolls a perfectly smooth 300 game, hitting the same spot every time.

"A study's been done where a robot hits the same board with the same speed using the same ball — and it doesn't roll a 300,"he said. "The oil breaks down about halfway through.

"You have to be fortunate on some shots to bowl a perfect game. Adjustments have to be made."

Weckerly began bowling when he was 8. His father has been a bowler since childhood.

"He took me with him bowling one Saturday and I loved it,"Weckerly said. "My obsession just grew from there.

"It's an accomplishment, bowling a 300. All that's left is to keep going out there and try to do it again."