Lawn bowlers gather pace after disappointing start

The venue for the Commonwealth Games lawn bowls, the Broadbeach Bowls Club, witnessed a turn of events for Team PNG on day seven of competition yesterday.
Being the busiest of all the sports, lawn bowls has been in competition from day one and Team PNG has been on the greens in fierce competition with the other 23 countries in each of the events.
Competing over a series of ends in the singles, pairs, triples and fours events, the lawn bowlers have been pushing for accuracy and controlling their nerve as they aim to be closest to the jack.
After some disappointing results in the first days of competition in the men’s pairs, men’s triples, women fours, women’s singles, Team PNG has become familiar with the run of the green and recent results have improved.
Men’s singles player Matu Bazo has won three of his five matches so far.
In his first match against his more fancied Northern Ireland opponent, the Lae-based Bazo went down 21-4.
However, Bazo was quick to recover, defeating his next opponent from Isle of Mann Kenneth McGreal 21-16.
He then went up against one of the favourites, Canadian Ryan Bester, and put up a brave fight to go down 21-13.
Bazo bounced back with a 21-18 win over Botswana.
He then backed up that performance with a 21-16 victory over Jersey