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SIX Golds to Australia, two Golds to New Zealand, and a Gold each to Papua-New
Guinea and Philippines. That’s how the
Arafura Games rewards worked out in Darwin on
Friday, May 18.
Heavyweight Mostyn Niemann
(SA) ran Yamiko Chinula (NZ) close, the Kiwi
winning a tough four-rounder, 36-28.
At Light-heavyweight Mat
Corbett (NSW) outscored the inexperienced Sam
Woods of Northern Territory on the whistle inside
two rounds.
New Zealand Middleweight
Deacon Henry outpointed South Australia’s
Tim Parker over four rounds, 42-22.
Welterweight Ged O’Mahony
(ACT) was one of the two dynamos of the Darwin
week, outscoring Farkhan Mohdharon of Malaysia
in the third round.
Rising South Australian, Dave Biddle, picked
up the Light-welterweight prize,
41-20, in the four-round match with Cameron
Hammond of the Aboriginal team.
Homeland rivals Will Tomlinson (Victoria)
and Mark Pevinsky (ACT) fought out the Lightweight
final, Pevinsky edging the fancied Viccie, 46-32.
Joel Brunker (NSW) bombarded the Indonesian,
Ali Antoni in the first round of the Featherweight
final, to bring the whistle.
In the Bantamweight decider,
Queensland southpaw Bradley Hore cruised to
a 32-20 points decision over Affandey Awang
Kati of Malaysia.
Francis Oaike of Papua New Guinea was surprise
winner of a Flyweight final
that set the computers sizzling, 70 points to
68. The loser, Afri Lubis from Indonesia had
eliminated NSW boxer, Jimmy Ceapa in a semi-final.
In the absence of Australia’s coming
ace, Steve Sutherland, aged below the compulsory
17, Light-fly honours went
to Bill Vicera (Phi) over Zenzai Mohamed (MAS),
53-32.
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