CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Bowling a 300-game is nothing new to Brian Marcellus.

Then again, there’s nothing old about it, either.

Marcellus, 43, of Connoquenessing Township bowled the 15th 300-game of his career Monday night at Bon Aire Lanes. He finished with an 809 series, the third 800 he’s posted in the past four years.

“It never gets old,” Marcellus said of bowling a perfect game. “Standing up there, rolling the 12th strike and finishing those games off is really cool. You never forget it.”

Marcellus keeps all of those milestones written down on paper. His career-best 813 series was rolled on Feb. 16, 2010. He rolled an 812 on March 5, 2013.

The perfect game Monday occurred in the middle game. Marcellus sandwiched that effort with a 265 and 244.

He rolled 29 strikes on the night.

“An 800 is pretty special because it shows you were locked in for the entire night, not just one game,” Marcellus said.

“There’s maybe eight to 10 800’s rolled in the county each year anymore. Years back, there was maybe one bowled every other year, before all the technology hit.”

Marcellus rolled his first perfect game in 1992, at age 20. He owns the distinction of rolling the last 300 game ever at the old Family Bowlaway off Route 8 (where Ghost Riders now sits) and the first 300 game ever bowled at Family Bowlaway’s current location on Fairground Hill Road.

“I used to work the desk at the old place and you could get all the practice time in you wanted back in those days,” Marcellus said. “I grew up in a house near Stoughton Acres golf course, so we hung out at that bowling alley all the time.”

Six weeks after his first-ever perfect game, Marcellus rolled a 300 at the state tournament in Erie. He also bowled a 300 in the Butler County Mixed Doubles Tournament in 1993 at Family Bowlaway.

Marcellus has been a bowler since age 6 and participated in Butler’s junior bowling program. He bowls in two leagues today — Monday Nighters at Bon Aire and the City League on Tuesday nights at Sherwood Lanes.

Among Marcellus’ other highlights in bowling are winning the radio tournament in consecutive years (2001-02), winning a few county tournaments and beating the entire field — scratch and handicap divisions included — in the 2001 county tourney at Zelie Lanes.

“I bowled with no handicap and finished with a 2,089 in all events,” he said. “I was pretty proud of that.”

There is still one achievement in the sport Marcellus would love to add to his resume.

“Winning a state championship would be cool,” he said. “I’ve finished 30th in all events at states before. Winning the thing would be pretty neat.”