Zitek finds the comfort zone, shoots a 300

RENO, Nev. — There’s no bigger stage in bowling than the National Bowling Stadium, but when Jared Zitek of Cheyenne, found himself on the verge of perfection at the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships on June 4, he wasn’t intimidated by his surroundings.

Instead of focusing on the magnitude of the one-of-a-kind 78-lane facility and the hundreds of bowlers and guests around him, the 37-year-old right-hander pretended he was at home at the Pine Bowl — his family’s eight-lane bowling center — and he calmly delivered the 26th perfect game of the 2013 USBC Open Championships.

Zitek, w...