SA bowler Piketh wins bronze once again at Commonwealth Games

Colleen Piketh picked up South Africa’s first lawn bowls medal of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday‚ taking the same women’s singles bronze that she won four years ago.

And there will either a gold or a silver coming to the women’s four on Monday.

Piketh was unable to get past New Zealand’s defending champion Jo Edwards in their semifinal earlier in the day‚ doing down 17-21.

Edwards‚ a former two-time world champion in the pairs‚ shared a bronze medal at the last world championships. Piketh’s opponent in the play-off for third spot was the Canadian who had shared Edwards’s bronze‚ Kelly McKerihen of Canada.

But this time Piketh made no mistake‚ winning 21-17.