U.S. sweeps gold medals in team at World Bowling Senior Championships
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 8/29/2015, 10:00 PM
The U.S. teams took both gold medals at the World Bowling Senior Championships. Left to right in back, Lucy Sandelin, Paula Vidad, Robin Romeo, Tish Johnson. Left to right in front, Lennie Boresch Jr., Bob Learn Jr., Ron Mohr, Johnny Petraglia, Team USA head coach Rod Ross. Photo by Randy Gulley.
Anyone thinking it was a foregone conclusion that the U.S. would win the gold medals in team event at the 2015 World Bowling Senior Championships need only look at the results of the 2013 World Bowling Senior Championships to see how wrong they were.
In 2013, Sweden swept the gold medals, while the U.S. men won silver and U.S. women bronze.
That does not mean the strong U.S. teams weren’t the favorites, which they probably were.
After Friday’s first of the two qualifying rounds, t...