Phil Smalley is a bowling all star. The Londonderry senior won the U.S. Bowling Congress Senior Championships.
Londonderry Senior Wins Bowling Championship
Smalley, 89, bowls at Merrimack Ten Pin 3 days a week. He is part of the Strike Force team, the senior league, and goes with friends. The Marine Corps veteran entered the finals with a score 1,390.
Smalley says confidence was the key.
Smalley used to bowl earlier in his life, but life got in the way. It was only recently that he came back.
“I’d been out bowling for 50 years. My wife passed away four years ago, so I came back into bowling.”
He was 1 of 3 New Englanders who qualified for this year’s national tournament.
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