NORTH BEND, Ore. - This year's national high school bowling tournament took place in Louisville, Kentucky.

But a championship trophy now resides on the South Coast.

The male's singles champion is Kian Pryor of North Bend.

"We’re all ecstatic!" his mother Tara Moore says. "Kian has been practicing every day for as long as I can remember. He’s so dedicated and passionate about bowling. His family is so excited for him, this is well deserved."

Head Coach Rod Duree calls it a community win.

"It's amazing what all of the volunteer coaches here do," Duree said. "We want to thank them. We also want to thank Mark Mattecheck for just helping the kids, giving them bowling time. Most of the other schools, the bowling centers charge them for their bowling, for practice.

Duree said this laid the foundation for volunteer coach Mike Hoyt, who's coached Pryor for over a decade, to fine tune his game.

Pryor said it's about trust.

"Now that I've been working with him for so long, and I can trust what he says, and we can work together on fixing the issue," he said.

A former bowler himself and United States Bowling Congress silver coach, Hoyt has a central strategy he stands on.

"You can't control what another bowler bowls, number one, and bowl one frame at a time. That's all you control. One frame at a time," Hoyt said.

Pryor said this thinking gave him the mental game he needed to win along with one of his secret weapons.

"I can do a back up ball, so it makes it easier to pick up pins on my left side since sometimes it's really hard to shoot straight at your spares," he said.

And while he has plans to return for a victory as a senior next year, Pryor said for now he's taking it all in.

"Now that I'm like number one, it feels kind of like a relief cause all the hard work paid off, so now I can kind of breathe a little bit," he said.

Duree said last year was the first time the team made it to the championships - and was the first team in the state to make it.

"I'm trying to use what Kian did to promote bowling here to try to get more kids out to do this," Duree said.

Pryor hopes to study business in college to own his own bowling alley while pursuing a professional bowling career.

North Bend Lanes owner Matt Mattecheck said the bowling alley that his dad and grandfather started in 1957 remains focused on families.

North Bend Lanes hosts hundreds of league bowlers and offers free kids bowling.