The donation of a scoreboard - bearing the name of a local bank - would be accepted if offered, the Glen Lake Board of Education agreed this week.

Board members discussed Monday night an informal offer from State Savings Bank to provide a new scoreboard at the school football field. The scoreboard would include the name of the bank, which is located in Empire.

“Our board agreed that they would accept it, if the bank’s board of directors makes the offer,” superintendent Joan Groening said.

The current scoreboard located at the east end of the football field currently identifies the field as the home of the 1994 state football champions.

In other sports-related business Monday night, the board approved bowling as a varsity sport. Twenty students — seven girls and 13 boys — began the season this month as a “club.” The designation as a varsity sport will allow them to participate in competition through the Michigan High School Athletic Association.

Team members are Caitlin Bidoul, Chloe Gribbin, Kristine Bush, Christine Kandel and Audrey Smith and sisters Ashley and Heather Leach; Tony Johnson, Wyatt Smith, Ryan Black, Joey Galla, Chris Miller-Sirois, Nick Schwartz, Jeff Pleva, Mark Stachnik, Geoff Hulbert, Dustin Baker, Joey Czapek, Jacob Johnston and Ryder Lewis.

The team is coached by Traverse City resident Clift Fraley, the regional coordinator for MHSAA bowling. Area teams are fielded by Traverse City Central, Traverse City West, St. Francis, Elk Rapids, Benzie Central and Kingsley.

Timberlanes in Traverse City is the site of the teams’ weekly Saturday contests, which run through February.

In other business during the last scheduled meeting of the 2007 calendar year, the board:

• Heard a request from athletic director Paul Christiansen to allow the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams to stay overnight downstate on Jan. 25 when they travel to The Palace of Auburn Hills.

• Received its annual request for permission to allow the fourth-grade class to travel overnight to Lansing in May to visit the Impressions 5 museum and the state Capitol. It has been an annual trip for the past 17 years, Groening said.