It’s the end of an era in Pennsylvania bowling as Al Blough has agreed to sell his three centers — Berks Lanes in Sinking Spring, Limerick Bowl in Montgomery County and Hiester Lanes in Reading — to Bowlero Corp. At 85, Blough told The Mercury that he plans to enter semi-retirement, hanging on to one […]

Kendra Cameron-Curry, Brittni LaGeorge and Ron Mohr have been elected as athlete representatives to the United States Bowling Congress Board of Directors. They began their terms today, filling newly created seats for Team USA athletes to meet updated requirements from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Cameron-Curry’s initial term is for one year, while […]

On Saturday, Aug. 14, the country will commemorate National Bowling Day, and the bowling industry is ready to make this the biggest celebration yet. Strike Ten Entertainment, via the Go Bowling platform, is rolling out an unprecedented marketing effort to build upon the momentum of a revitalized industry, post pandemic. On tap to help raise […]

The top young bowlers from across the country are making their way to Indianapolis for the 2021 Junior Gold Championships. The 2021 event started Monday with the official practice session in the 20-and-under division, and this year’s edition will run until July 17. More than 3,500 bowlers have qualified for the event, which is being […]

Avery Schenk, a recent graduate of Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville, N.C., and an incoming freshman at North Carolina State University, is the 2021 recipient of the Daroll and Dolores Frewing Scholarship. The richest scholarship in bowling, with a $25,000 value, is presented to a graduating senior who is a child or grandchild of […]

What once was the Lakewood Theater is now being described as the most intriguing new music venue in the Dallas area — complete with 10 bowling lanes. The old theater, now known as Bowlski’s, provided a space in which to create something unique, and the owners have done just that with a performance stage and […]

Bowling Center Management’s all-star cast of writers claimed seven awards in the 2020 writing competition conducted by the International Bowling Media Association. In the key Business category, Dennis Bergendorf claimed the first-place prize for his story on a BPAA past president (“Ducat Does It His Way”) that appeared in the November issue of BCM. The […]

Bowl Incline in Incline Village, Nev., will have been closed for a year by the time it reopens in December after new owners have completed a major renovation project. Those owners, Steve and Tracy Tomkovicz, loved bowling at the center when on vacation in the Lake Tahoe region. When they learned last fall that the […]

Dick Atkinson, who built and opened Hallmark Lanes in Killeen, Texas, in 1987, passed away in May. But the future of the center is secure. “My dream was always to make sure my father’s dream lives on,” Karin Ciesiolka, Atkinson’s daughter and the center’s General Manager, told the Killeen Times. Ownership of the center passed to […]