West Midlands boys through to the semis
Priory Park Boxing Club will definitely have a double presence in the National Association of Boys and Girls Clubs Championships semi-finals.
The Priory Road based gym in Dudley got two out of three through the last of the West Midlands finals last weekend,
Now former national champion James Mongan and club-mate Jee Johal will benefit from a rest, before last four clashes at the Croxteth Leisure Centre in Liverpool a week on Saturday.
They both feature in the most junior section of the tournament, Class A, which is for fighters born in 2001. Mongan is at 48kg, with Johal at 60kg.
Both were crowned area titlists before the regional deciders, boxing straight West Midlands finals at the semis stage the week before, as there were few entrants at their weights.
Mongan, a former Schools boss and Youth finalist, booked his passage through with a unanimous victory over Richmond Ricardo, from Capitol in Coventry.
Johal defeated Shayan Hussain, from Wellington Boxing Academy, on a points split decision in what proved to be a crunch clash.
But the last of the area finals at Triumph Social Club in Coventry last weekend spelled the end for another Priory Park fighter, Rahmatullah Sher.
He battled in vain against the useful Liam Hughes, from Exhall in Coventry, before going down on a split at 60kg in Class B (born 2000).
Walsall Wood's Hamzah Ahmed and Liam McCarthy will contest their belated West Midlands final, at 57kg in Class B, on Saturday.
It will come on McCarthy's turf, at the Newdigate Social Club in Bedworth. Ahmed has already vanquished Ellis Truman, of the Second City in Birmingham, unanimously.
Ethan Collins, of Brooklands in Dudley, lost a box-off on a split at the regional semi-final stage on a split to Kaash Buttery, from Tom Lowe in Stoke-on-Trent.
Buttery went to claim the area spoils at 64kg in Class C (1998-99 born) against a fresh Aaron Fail, from Northampton's Far Cotton.
Collins' Brooklands club-mate Paige Goodyear may have to go up to 66kg to take on Carlisle's Brodie Stephenson in a female Class B straight national final.
Pleck's Georgia Reid imminently faces a Class B 57kg quarter-final this weekend against Boston's Angelica Finch at Newdigate.
