Tenpin bowler Nicholas Breant needed only one more pin to fall to achieve a perfect game last Thursday. The performance by the newest member of Hong Kong's junior tenpin bowling team stunned spectators at the 2011-12 Inter-school Team Championships.
The 14-year-old, who had joined the squad only two weeks before, achieved 299 points in one game in the competition - earning him the trophy for claiming the highest individual score on the day.
'I went through the selection process run by Hong Kong Tenpin Bowling Congress in March and started training with the junior team earlier last month,' Nicholas says, whose previous personal-best score of 269 had come during training.
His total is the highest on record at any inter-school individual and team tournament since 2006-07.
Eight days earlier, the Year Nine student at King George V School, in Ho Man Tin had finished seventh overall, scoring a total of 576 points, in the individual tournament.
The rising star - who has a French father and Chinese mother - bowled in three games in the team event.