Ponce, Puerto Rico - the 21st Central American and Caribbean Games featured WIU bowler
Andro Simounet as a member of the Puerto Rico national team and he finished the week with two gold medals.
Simounet managed a 8-0 match play record to win the gold in the Men's prestigious Masters event, on the last day of competition. Earlier in the week, Simounet won another Gold medal in the Trios event.
After All Events are completed, the top 16 bowlers complete in the tournament's Masters event. Andro started the event as the 15th seed defeating the number 2 seed Andres Gomez of Columbia, the former PBA exempt player.
Simounet fired games of 256, 268 and back-to-back 279 to eliminate Trios partners Israel Hernández and Gabriel Sanchez on his way to the title match. Batres swept Frankie Colon, Puerto Rico, in the quarterfinal and topped Singles and Team champion Luis Olivo (pictured left), Venezuela, in the semifinal in the decider, 210-180. Sanchez and Olivo shared the bronze medal.
Simounet flew past his opponent in the first game of the championship match, 215-136, and sealed the victory with a 217-181 win in game #2. The champion posted an 8-0 won-lost record in match play averaging 243.25 for his eight games.