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Six chase in golden square
Bendigo Despatch
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Mike C Ryan & Kid Kalin
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TEAM AUSTRALIA |
Bendigo, late
Thursday.-
SOME of Commonwealth's second
best 18-year-olds will earn a dozen bronze medals
tonight (Thursday) in West Bendigo Stadium when
the semi-finals of the Commonwealth Youth Games
boxing are fought out.
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FIJI feather, Lakalevu feeds
sweet straight left to Scott Gardner .
. before the New Zealander landed a solar
plexus finisher. |
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The Fijian appears to be
winning .. according to Kalin Kamera |
None of the six Aussies among
them is sure to take home bronze
They are looking higher, for
silver and gold.
Our bantamweight, Davey Browne
meets England swiftie, Liam Walsh in a semi-final.
They were the two best in the 54 kg quarter-finals
and one or the other should win the final Friday.
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England featherweight, James
McElvaney fires over the top of Manoj
Kumar of India |
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McElveney closes in |
Featherweight Joel Brunker
boxed off-target on opening night against an
exceptional Samoan, Leti Emilio Leti.
Joel can prove his Athens Olympic calibre against
Scott Gardner, the New Zealand boxer who put
his Fijian opponent down for the full count
with a solar plexus punch.
Lightweight Lenny Zappavigna
positioned himself to land heavy hits that outscored
the Indian lightweight, Feroz,30-10. Zappa enters
the semi-final favourite for gold.
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Thamasanqa Dubase of South
Africa ducks the Scot, Kelso |
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. . the bout ends sadly
for Dubase. Compassionate Kalin captures
decision. But when the loser covered his
eyes and cried, Kalin put down his camera |
Michael Hatwell on performances
rates above the home nation's boom pair, Bad
Boy Leroy and Hurricane Heath. The West Australian,
due to enter the Australian Institute of Sport,
goes the 64 kg road against either of the Celtic
winners, hard-C Patrick Murphy (Ireland) or
soft-C Gary McMillan (Scotland).
Dean Russell is in the welterweight semi-final
round with restored confidence after seeing
the erratic form of England's World Silver medallist,
Ryan Pickard in the afternoon. The draw could
otherwise place Dean Russell with Cook Island
crowd-pleaser, Keve Tukia.
The remarkable schoolboy Keve won a punchers'
war with Titali of Samoa, in only the fourth
contest of his career.
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Middleweight Unathi Jacobs
of South Africa evades Andy McElvie. The
Scot won close decision. |
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McKelvie winner. So was
the Devon referee, put safety first. |
Omar Shaick of Brisbane's
international career begins in the middleweight
semis, where he could pair with either the Scot,
McKelvie, or England fancy, James Deagale. Shaick
and Deagale are both southpaws. McKelvie was
decked by a South African southpaw, Jacobs,
before getting up to win.
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Cheery lass with South African
boxers ouside the Stadium after quarter-finals
was Mona Pretorius from Port Elizabeth.
The 16 year old schoolgirl, under 58 kg,
won Games gold that day in weightlifting.
Mona raised 157 kg in two lifts.
Try lifting one and a half times your
own bodyweight at a go. |
PRESS BOX
Liked the initiative of Keith Brooking,
referee from Devon, England with a Telly Savalas
haircut. On opening night Mr Brooking stopped
the action in one contest several times, when
the ring lights flickered half off . . not altogether
unlit, that is, they were still half on.
We've seen boxing promotions run entire shows
with low lightpower.
And some gyms have sparring on inadequate candlepower.
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