Jasmine Reid and Lily Spagnola have different recollections of the days when they first started bowling for the Barnegat High School girls squad.

“I was so bad,” said Reid, now a senior who last season averaged 160. “I didn’t even get near 100. I’m pretty sure the first game I bowled was a 75. The first time I got over 100 was my sophomore year, and I was jumping up and down about it.”

Spagnola drew a blank.

“I don’t remember what I bowled in my first game,” said the senior who a year ago averaged 162. “I probably didn’t want to remember because it was probably awful.”

Coming from a place where the terminology of bowling was a foreign language – they thought it would be “cool” to bowl…