The Mahoning Valley has always been one of North America’s epicenters of bocce. Now it will be the site of its first semipro bocce league.

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Upstairs are two green bocce ball courts with an assortment of colored balls. The courts are around 70 feet long, and separated from the rest of the restaurant by a red-brick wall.

In case you’re wondering, yes, players can knock opponents’ balls out of the way. Backyard bocce doesn’t even require a court, just a set of bocce balls, a flat surface and two to eight players. (A ...

SUBSCRIBER ONLY Why the ancient game of bocce ball is on a roll With an estimated 25 million people playing it worldwide, bocce is considered to be one of the world’s most popular sports ...

Bocce is played with a small, target ball called a jack or pallino, and a set of four larger, colored balls that are allotted to each of two competing players or to two teams.

Pasquale Celella rolls a ball at the bocce courts in Murdy Park in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) ...

Bocce court matches begin with a coin toss, or some other means of randomly selecting the first player or team, which gets the game rolling by tossing the small target ball (differing from the ...

TONTITOWN, Ark. — Families gathered at Tontitown's Harry Sbanotto Park on Sept. 14 to compete in the traditional game of Bocce, also called bocce ball. The 8th annual tournament was part of the ...