INDIANAPOLIS – The 2016 Bowling.com Youth Open Championships kicked off Thursday at Expo Bowl and it didn’t take long for the first honor score of event to be posted.

During singles competition on Friday, E.J. Baradas of Roseville, California, started with a 266 game before stringing together 12 consecutive strikes for the first 300 game of the tournament. He finished the set with a 213 game for a 779 series in the U20 boys division.

It was his second sanctioned perfect game and tournament sponsor Bowling.com will award Baradas, and any other youth bowler who rolls a 300 game during the event, a $100 scholarship.

Baradas, 17, made the trip to Indianapolis to compete in his first Bowling.com Youth Open Championships and the Junior Gold Championships presented by Storm, Roto Grip and Master, which kick off Sunday with the Opening Ceremony at Victory Field. The inaugural USA Bowling National Championships also will take place in Indianapolis next week.

“This is my first time coming to Junior Gold,” he said. “I just started bowling about two and a half years ago and everything is just a new experience for me.”

Baradas’ perfect game comes exactly five years after the first 300 game in the event’s history was accomplished. Baradas also competed in doubles on Friday, with games of 177, 277 236 for a 690 series in doubles.

“This is what I live and breathe for now,” Baradas said about bowling. “After I found out about bowling and I started practicing and getting better, I was like, ‘Man, this is what I want to be doing.’”

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