After opening up a 6-0 lead on the first day of the Weber Cup, Team USA simply needed to tread water to win this year’s event. That’s exactly what they did as they finished off Europe, 23-18, on Wednesday night.

The winning point came courtesy of EJ Tackett, who defeated European stalwart Jesper Svensson, 278-244, at Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. Tackett was named the event’s most valuable player.

In the 21-year history of the Weber Cup, the United States has now won 11 times, while Europe has won 10. The last three years, Team USA has come away with the victory.

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The U.S. team was made up of captain Chris Barnes, Tackett, Kyle Troup, Anothiny Simonsen and Bill O’Neill. Team Europe was captained by Dom Barrett along with Svensson, Thomas Larsen, Osku Palermaa and Stu Williams.

“I think I had the easiest job in the world,” Barnes said after the victory. “I had four of the top eight guys in the world to bowl with. I think a lot of guys could do OK captaining this group. These guys are easy to get along with, they support each other and they know how to do a whole bunch of different things on the lanes. Credit goes to them.”

The USA dominated the first session of the event Monday, winning six of seven matches to build what turned out to be an unsurmountable lead. At the end of the second session on Monday, the USA maintained a 10-3 lead.

On Tuesday, Europe managed to hang with the Americans, finishing the first session of Day 2 with a 3-3 record. In the second session, it was also 3-3 and finished the day with the USA up 16-9.

Europe won the first session of the day Wednesday by a margin of 4-3 but simply wasn’t making up enough ground. In the final session of the event, Europe went 5-4 to win another session but the overwhelming losses on Monday were too much to overcome.