Scores were much lower in Friday’s second day of the 2019 Team USA Trials at the Gold Coast in Las Vegas, with Team USA and PWBA veteran Shannon Pluhowsky the only player over 1,400 for six games.
Contrast that with Thursday’s opening round when seven men and one woman topped 1,400 on a high-volume (31.46 mL for men, 28.6 mL women), fairly short (36 feet), and fairly flat (1.58-1 middle-outside track and 1-1 elsewhere ratios) lane pattern.
Friday’s lane pattern was a polar...