January 12 will mark the first meet of the new De Soto High School Bowling team.

This meet will be held at Ranch Bowl in Kansas City, Kan., and will begin at 3:30. The DHS team will be competing against Mill Valley High School and Atchison High School.

When two teams compete, they take two lanes next to each other and bowl five frames on each lane, then switch, ensuring a fair match regardless of differences in the lanes.

This is the first of many meets for the DHS bowling team. They will be facing various local schools including Mill Valley, Lawrence Free State, Maranatha and Blue Valley Southwest.

This meet will be held at the same location that the bowling team practices at, but later meets will be held at other locations such as Park Lanes in Shawnee, Kan.

For more information on the bowling team, see Meredith Boydston and Jake Lorenzo .