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A bowling league is a competitive event in which teams bowl against each other over the course of a season. Most bowling leagues consist of four-player teams that meet up once a week or once every other week, usually at the same day and time. Teams of three or five players are also common. Leagues can be set up as male-only, female-only, or mixed.
The league was created when Columbian, Fremont Ross, and Sandusky left the Little Big 7 league to join with Bowling Green, Findlay, and Fostoria. When Bowling Green and Fostoria left for the Great Northern League (and Tiffin went to the NOL), the league added two schools from the Lake Erie League and rebranded as the Buckeye Conference.
Bowls are also called woods, though they can be made of other materials and measure 4.75-5.75in (12-14.5cm) in diameter and have a maximum weight of 3.5lb (1.5kg). Indoor bowlers play long mat and ...
The Challenge was created in 2002 by ESPN, [1] who also occasionally refers to it as the "Bowl Cup Challenge" when promoting it. [2] Originally sponsored by Cooper Tire , [ 3 ] ESPN went several years without a sponsor; since the 2015–16 bowl season , Progressive has been the sponsor.
The Irish National Bowls Championships were inaugurated in 1908. [5] [6] The Irish Women's Bowling Association was formed on 17 October 1947 and had eight founder member clubs. This grew to 56 by 1972 and the Irish Women's Bowling League was created in 1952, followed by the Junior League in 1964.
The BCL was one of the local small-school county leagues in Southwest Ohio. Consolidation reduced the number of teams to five by 1967, and in 1970 these five joined with the Adams and Highland county leagues to form the Southern Hills Athletic League. Aberdeen Pirates (1930s–53, consolidated into Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington)
The English Bowls Association was the governing body of bowls in England until 2007. From 2008 onwards, Bowls England was formed, which now runs the sport. The national finals for bowls are held annually, where either 1, 2 or 3 representatives from each county compete for the national titles.
Last week, Con Ed announced it was asking state regulators to hike its electric bills by an average of 11.4% and gas bills by 13.3% starting on Jan. 1, 2026, citing the need to raise revenue to ...