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It was night of bowling for Katie Couric and a bunch of her celebrity friends (plus her on and off boyfriend Chris Botti). All in the name of a good cause of course, her fight against colon cancer. The Strike Out Colon Cancer event was held at the 300 New York bowling alley at Chelsea Piers.

Katie gathered a few hundred of her closest friends, including Whoopi Goldberg, The Sopranos’ Steve Schirripa and John Ventimiglia, and Queer Eye’s Kyan Douglas for the event. For each strike anyone bowled, 300 New York would donate $1,000 to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA).

In case you’re wondering, Katie’s a decent bowler herself. While she spent most of the time mingling, she did bowl four frames, and scored two 8s and two 7s for a total of 30. (Watching her bowl while a half-dozen photographers crouched halfway down the lane to catch her in action was pretty wild.) I asked Voss what tips Katie needed in her technique. “The same as everybody,” he said. “Timing.” As always, Katie was quite the operator. When she made her speech in the middle of the night and realized only 30 grand had been raised, she asked the bowling alley owner, “Can we get half for spares?”

More information on colon cancer can be found here.

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More photos (Katie Couric, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Botti, Trevor Raines, Richie Rich, Robert Verdi) from the event are after the jump.

(Katie Couric, Whoopi Goldberg)

(Chris Botti, Trevor Raines, Richie Rich, Robert Verdi)

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