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Bowling Definitions - Break of the boards: Area approximately twenty feet from the foul line there the maple boards meet the pines boards. Hard maple boards are used between the foul line and the break of the boards to withstand the impact of bowling balls. (dovetails, piano keys, splice)


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Tenpins & More Co-Owner

Mike Miller, one of the co-owners of Tenpins & More, has been a member of the Professional Bowlers Association for many years. Mike and his sister Dana are coaches for individual and private group classes at Tenpins & More!

Mike is a founding member of the "Rio Rancho Sports Advisory Council", part of the tourism strategy of the Rio Rancho Convention and Visitor's Bureau.

An unsuccessful "journeyman", he decided to make a radical change in the way he released the ball by taking his thumb out and in effect, palming it down the lane.

He made history shortly after by winning the first of his three national tour titles - a major - the PBA National Championship in 1991 and almost $ 100,000 that year.

Mike added the Wichita Open the following year and the Don Carter Classic in Dallas in 1999.

He is the second-to-last man to bowl a nationally-televised 300 game, that coming on Father's Day in 1999 at the Bowling Stadium in Reno. It was worth $10,000!

Recently, this fall, after a number of arthroscopic knee surgeries, Mike returned to the winner's circle beating Texan, D.J. Archer two games to nil to win a regional in Bernalillo, NM. It was his fifth regional title.

Mike has a wealth of knowledge that he imparts on a daily basis to league bowlers at the Center.

It has cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars and more than twenty years of his life to accumulate it. No-one should be shy in asking him to help them either.

(Little-known-fact: Mike practiced bowling in his parent's garage when he was just a small boy).

Mike is married to Jodianne - the Center's office and lounge manager - and has two children, Adrienne and Chris. The couple live in Rio Rancho.

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