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30 www.bowlingworld.com - June 2019 Juniors Mark Your Calendars June 22 : Modesto Junior Handicap/Scratch Tournament @ McHenry Bowl, Modesto June 23: 1st Annual Open Modesto Jr Handicap/Scratch Tournament @ Yosemite Lane, Modesto June 29-30 : 2019 Diddy Watts Singles @ Steve Cook’s Fireside Lanes, Citrus Heights June 30 : TNBA Summer Singles Handicap @ Canyon Lanes, Cabazon,CA July 7 : YBT @ West Lane Bowl, Stockton July 13-14, 20-21, 27-28: 2019: CA State Youth Championships@ Tyme To Bowl, Oroville July 27-28 : YBT Cloverleaf Family Bowl Sport Shot Singles, 28th Youth / Adult Doubles Aug 2-3 : Nor-Cal YBA Jr/Adult Doubles @ Coconut Bowl, Sparks, NV Aug 2-4 : 2019 Bowlapalooza Jr/Adult & 2019 All Star Weekend, @ Coconut Bowl, Sparks Aug 3-Sept 3 : Pacific Coast Youth Scratch @ Sea Bowl, Pacifica August 10-11 : 2019 Diddy Watts, Last Chance @ McHenry Bowl, Modesto October 27 : YBT @ Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl, Dublin December 15 : YBT @ 4th Street Bowl, San Jose January 25 : YBT @ Windsor Bowling Center January 26 : YBT @ Double Decker Lanes, Rohnert Park May 23-24 : 22nd Annual Hillman Memorial Scholarship Tournament @ Cloverleaf Family Bowl SMART Corporation Makes $1.75 Million Distribution For Second Consecutive Year By Terry Bigham ARLINGTON, Texas – For the second consecutive year, the Scholarship Manage- ment and Account Reporting for Tenpins (SMART) will make a distribution of $1.75 mil- lion to providers’ funds from investment earnings. Based on income earned from investments, the SMART Board determines any possi- ble income earnings distribution and releases the funds to providers by the end of May each year. The $1.75 million distribution is from investment earnings in 2018. ―The SMART Board is excited to make such a significant distribution for the second consecutive year,‖ SMART Corporation Board Chairman Steve Moehrle said about the distribution announced by SMART during its presentation at the USBC Convention. ―We will continue to protect SMART funds through conservative investment strategies and look to continue our yearly earnings distributions so providers can provide more youth bowlers with scholarships.‖ With this year’s earnings distribution of $1.75 million, SMART has returned more than $4.3 million to Providers accounts in the last year. It includes $2.2 million in expired Re- cipients Funds and $430,000 in Expired Provider accounts. The SMART Board provided an income earnings distribution of $1 million in 2017 and $450,000 in 2016. SMART also has continued to make improvements to the program. Within the last year, providers were given the ability to make online payments and SMART scholarship recipients now have an easier way to request funds online. The SMART Bowling Scholarship Funding Corporation was created in 2010 as an in- dependent entity dedicated to the management, protection and promotion of the SMART scholarship funds with the United States Bowling Congress staff overseeing the day-to-day operation of the program. USBC started the SMART program in 1994 to of- fer a centralized location to manage bowling scholarship funds, as well as provide USBC members with a resource for inquiries about bowling scholarships. The seven-member SMART Board places the largest portion of earned scholarships in conservative securities with remaining assets invested in a diversified portfolio expected to yield larger returns. The majority of investment income is distributed to participating organizations and providers, with a small portion used to cover administrative costs and investment fees. CBS Sports Network To Televise 19 Bowling Shows In 2019 By Terry Bigham ARLINGTON, Texas – CBS Sports Network will televise 19 bowling shows in 2019 with the finals of eight events televised live, including the stepladder finals of five major events. The U.S. Women’s Open (June 23), the PWBA Players Champion- ship (Sept. 8), and the PWBA Tour Championship (Sept. 18) also will have live coverage of the finals. The finals of the 2019 U.S. Open, a major on the Professional Bowl- ers Association (PBA) Tour, will be televised live on Oct. 30 from Vic- tory Lanes in Mooresville, North Carolina. In addition to the major events on the CBS Sports Network schedule, the first three Saturdays in August will have a live TV show starting 5 p.m. (Eastern) with the stepladder finals of the PWBA Elite-field events – the PWBA East Hartford Open (Aug. 3), Pepsi PWBA Louis- ville Open (August 10) and the BowlerX.com PWBA Orlando Open (August 17). The fields for the PWBA elite-field events will consist of the top 24 players on the 2019 PWBA points list after the first eight events of the season, with the remainder of the 32-player field filled through a pre- tournament qualifier. New for 2019 will be the Go Bowling! PWBA Regional Shootout, a special made-for-TV event that will bring together the winners of the first four PWBA Regional events in 2019. The show will air on August 24th. The 2019 CBS Sports Network schedule will have four shows from the Junior Gold Championships presented by the Brands of Ebonite International for the fifth consecutive year. The Junior Gold Championships has a new Under 17 Division in 2019 and the three-person stepladder finals for each division (U12, U15, U17, U20) at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Michigan, will be taped for broadcast. The title matches of the U12 and U15 divisions at the USA Bowling National Championships presented by Sixlets®, also at Thunderbowl Lanes, will be taped for broadcast. The 2019 CBS Sports Network bowling schedule (all times Eastern): Sun., June 23 – U.S. Women’s Open, Texas Station, Las Vegas, 8 p.m. (live) Tue., July 23 – Junior Gold Championships (U12), Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., 8 p.m. Tue., July 30 – Junior Gold Championships (U15), Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., 8 p.m. S at., Aug. 3 – PWBA East Hartford Open, Silver Lanes, E. Hartford, Conn., 5 p.m. (live) Tue., Aug. 6 – Junior Gold Championships (U17), Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 10 – PWBA Louisville Open, Executive Strike and Spare, Louisville, Ky., 5 p.m. (live) Tue., Aug. 13 – Junior Gold Championships (U20), Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 17 – PWBA Orlando Open, Boardwalk Bowl, Orlando, FL., 5 p.m. (live) Tue., Aug. 20 – USA Bowling Championships (U12), Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 24 – Go Bowling! PWBA Regional Shootout, Boardwalk Bowl, 5 p.m. Tue., Aug. 27 – USA Bowling Championships (U15), Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., 8 p.m. Sun., Sept. 8 – PWBA Players Championship, Buffaloe Lanes North, Raleigh, N.C., 4 p.m. (live) Wed., Sept. 18 – PWBA Tour Championship, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Va., 8 p.m. (live) Wed., Oct. 30 – U.S. Open, 8 p.m. (live)