Dougherty: Holiday tradition: Turkeys, bowling tournaments

For those who don't like to run on Thanksgiving morning, there are a few bowling options to burn calories before the turkey feast.

First place: $350

First place: $1,000, based on 48 entries

First place: $300 for handicap, $200 scratch, based on 100 entries

Knee surgery will keep Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts, runner-up in this season's American League MVP voting, from returning to this year's PBA World Series of Bowling. ...

Former U.S. Open champion Brian Boghosian of Springfield, Mass., won his first New Era Senior Tour singles title, beating Sonny Dorstek of Schenectady 278-202 in the final match at Uncle Sam.

Angel Stein of East Greenbush rolled a 967 four-game series (including handicap) to top a field of 15 in the Women's Capital District 700 Club Tournament at Hometown.

Jenna Lemke of Delmar is the first female to win a Capital District Youth Scholarship Tour title since Liz Kuhlkin in 2012, teaming with Hunter Kempton of Buzzards Bay, Mass., to capture the group's first open doubles tournament at Sportsman's Bowl.

Michael Stoddard of Rensselaer, Louis Straut of Ballston Lake, Clinton Walizer of Cambridge, and Steve Mitchell Jr. of Schenectady advanced to the semifinals of the Huck Finn/Northeast Bowling Proprietors of New York handicap tournament at Sunset Recreation.