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Three wins out of four

Date: Sat 7th May 2016

 

 

On Friday 6th May , 15 year old St Marys boxer Hayden Sanders met Brentwoods M.Fuller at 50kgs on the Strood ABC show. According to coach Dave Bowler, both were mixing up their combinations well and Sanders superior fitness in the first round clinched the win in a top quality encounter.

 Three St Marys youngsters were in action on Sunday at the southern counties regional finals in Camberley, Surrey. First up was 11 year old Sean Stokes in the minors class under 38.5kgs. Up against a southpaw in O. Sherred (Golden ring, Southampton), Stokes was literally facing a tall order as his opponent stood 3-4 inches taller. Having only just missed making the weight class below you could see the difference and although Stokes fought valiantly, Sherred's extra size and strength always kept him a step ahead of Stokes, who lost unanimously on points. Stokes has now vowed to get down to the weight class below, where he will stand more chance against similar sized opponents. 

Next up in the minors weight class was Enriko Itauma in the under 56kgs weight category. Facing the tall St Marys boxer was T. Maggs (Tichfield, Hampshire). In only his 3rd bout he outboxed his strong opponent who only had success when he rushed in and threw hooks in the first two rounds. However, Itauma listened to coach Dan Woledge's instructions to keep his opponent at range and began putting his opponent on the back foot as he tired. Enrico sealed victory via split decision with his strong finish. What makes the victory even better was it turned out that Maggs was 11 months older and had 5 wins from 7 bouts.

The final St Marys boxer of the day was 14 year old Dion Eede, who was up against J.Rhodda (Smallholdings, Mitcham) in the class 2 under 48kgs category. Eede could have been forgiving for having a few pre bout nerves as Rhodda had defeated him on the St Marys home show last November. However Eede had trained harder recently and started the first round picking some lovely clean counter punches on the back foot. However, the classy Rhodda repaid the compliment and was getting off first at times and looked to shade the first round. I told Dion that he needed to be first and throw combinations to head and body and he did more of that and looked to have taken a bit out of Rhodda at the end of the 2nd round. Dion was told he needed to give it everything he had in an effort to outwork Rhodda in the last round and he did just that, landing lovely straight rights to head and body, to run out a points winner. Although it was close, the split decision meant that revenge was sweet for the Lordswood based Eede and it was him who went through to the National quarter finals in two weeks.

Due to being the number 2 seed in the snr ABA semi finals plus the GB boxer she lost to in the final going to world championships, 25 year old St Marys boxer Louise Orton has been selected to represent England in the tri nations at the end of May in Scotland. Orton has been called up for a preparation camp 20-22th May at the GB training base in Sheffield and hopes to push for a place on the development squad. The boxer who defeated her in the final is going to the world championships at the weight above, so it could leave an opening for her to secure a GB trial if she performs well in the tri nations.
 


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