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Jake Bockstie potentially makes a slice of history in firing 2,277 to take all-events lead at 2026 USBC Open Championships

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 6/12/2026, 11:30 PM
Jake Bockstie potentially makes a slice of history in firing 2,277 to take all-events lead at 2026 USBC Open Championships
Jake Bockstie after taking the all-events lead Friday at the 2026 USBC Open Championships. Photo by USBC.
Jake Bockstie potentially made some history in firing 2,277 Thursday and Friday to take the all-events lead at the 2026 USBC Open Championships at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno. Bockstie definitely earned a slice of history by going 90 clean, which makes him at minimum the fifth person ever to do so. I was 90 clean in winning the all-events with 2,241 in 1997, although I had no idea until I was done, and for years it was thought I was the only one to ever do it. USBC later determined that...

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