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Red-hot Kris Prather opens astounding 225-pin lead after second round of 2018 U.S. Open

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:00 pm
Red-hot Kris Prather opens astounding 225-pin lead after second round of 2018 U.S. Open
Kris Prather has an astounding 225-pin lead after the second round of the 2018 U.S. Open. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
It’s almost incomprehensible to think that any player could out-average the best players in the world by 14 pins a game through two rounds of any tournament, much less the U.S. Open. But that’s what Kris Prather has done at the 2018 U.S. Open at Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kansas. Prather, a 26-year-old right-hander with a beautiful fundamental game, rolled games of 226, 195, 256, 200, 238, 202, 248 and 258 in Friday’s first of three rounds of qualifying on a 37-foot flat...