02/06/19 – State Bowling Championships Begin Thursday at Executive Strike & Spare

February 6, 2019 2018-2019 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 6, 2019

The eighth-annual KHSAA State Bowling Championships get underway Thursday at Executive Strike & Spare in Louisville with the Unified, Adapted and Singles competitions. The Unified Championship, which is in its third year as a KHSAA offering, and the inaugural Adapted Championship start at 8:30 a.m., followed by the Boys’ and Girls’ Singles Championship at 11:30 a.m. Advanced tickets to the event can be purchased at https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA.

The Unified Championship will consist of one qualifying game for seeding followed by baker’s doubles matches throughout a 16-team bracket. The Adapted Championship will feature one qualifying game for seeding prior to the final head-to-head matchup. The singles competition will have each competitor bowl three games before the field is trimmed to the top eight individuals. The top eight will then roll two additional games, with the top four boys’ and girls’ performers advancing to the step ladder bracket, which will continue through its completion.

The state tournament resumes Friday morning with the Girls’ Team Championship starting at 8:15 a.m. and concludes with the Boys’ Team Championship, which is slated to start at 2 p.m. Each event will begin with two qualifying games in order to seed the teams in a 16-team bracket, with the state champion determined through baker games.

Results will be posted to the Bowling page at KHSAA.org following each round. Official championship photos will be available at KHSAA.org within 72 hours of the event.

2019 KHSAA State Bowling Championships
Schedule – https://khsaa.org/2019-bowling-state-time-schedule/
Adapted Lane Assignments – https://khsaa.org/bowling/2019/adaptedlaneassignments.pdf
Unified Lane Assignments – http://khsaa.org/bowling/2019/unifiedlaneassignments.pdf
Singles Lane Assignments – http://khsaa.org/bowling/2019/singleslaneassignments.pdf
Team Lane Assignments – http://khsaa.org/bowling/2019/teamlaneassignments.pdf
Championship Program – http://khsaa.org/Publications/Programs/20182019/Bowling/issue1/index.html

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About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 280 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 44 state championships in 13 sports and 5 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.