
Brian Eiswerth
2022 Hall of Fame Inductee
Brian Eiswerth has been one of the local association’s top bowlers since the mid 1990’s. He won the County Association high average award for the 1997-98 season with a 233.5 average, and finished in second place the previous season as well as the following two seasons. Eiswerth spread his bowling among several different area houses throughout his career. He once bowled four 700 series in four different houses in the same week. Brian posted the highest composite average (3 different houses) in the area for the 1996-97 season (225) and the 1998-99 season (228), while finishing second in the 1997-98 season. With sixteen career 800 series, Eiswerth stands in tenth place on the all-time list of most 800 series by local bowlers. His career high sanctioned series of 830 in 2014, won that season’s high series award.
On 4/29/1999, at the ABC (now USBC) National Tournament, Brian reeled off 22 strikes in a row, tying the National Tournament record for most consecutive strikes, and becoming the first and only local bowler to roll a 300 game at a National Open Tournament. All toll, Eiswerth has thirty-some sanctioned 300 games to his credit, which places him on the top 10 list of most perfect games by local bowlers. During the 1996-97 season, he shot five 300 games, more than any other bowler that season, and only one shy of the local record at that time. The following season he rolled 4 perfect games, again topping all other local bowlers for that season.
Brian started his bowling career in the early 1980’s, bowling a 299 game by the time he reached the age of 15. He had two Junior Bowling Tour wins. While bowling in more than 20 County Association Tournaments, Eiswerth won both the handicap and scratch doubles championships in the 2005-06 tournament, and his team took the scratch team crown in 2003-04 and 2005-06.
With a 279 game, Brian was high man when his Majic team shot a 1323 game on September 29, 1994, to become the first local team to break the 1300 mark. Eiswerth bowled in three Professional Regional Tour events, cashing in two of them.
Between 1992 and 2015, Eiswerth made the finals in the local Bowler of the Year Tournament six times. In the 2015 tournament, he set a new tournament record for highest series with a 826, and highest overall average for one tournament with a 259.75.