2018 Team New England (missing Angel Gonzalez)

(pictures courtesy of Edward Boches / Boches fotogrāfija)

LOWELL, Masa. (Februāris 23, 2018) – Eleven New England champions were crowned last night during the New England Tournament of Champions at historic Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Central New England snapped the Western New England’s four-year reign in team scoring to capture the covered Bill Hoar Memorial Award as Most Outstanding Team.

The New England Tournament of Champions, also known as the All-New England’s, is part of the 72nd annual New England Golden Gloves Championships.

Each individual N.E. champion qualified for Team New England, which will compete at the National Golden Gloves Championship, sākot Maijs 14, 2018 Omaha, Nebraska.

Centrālā N.E. had five individual winners, edging Western NE with four, North N.E. and Southern N.E. had champion one apiece.

“There were some great fights, hotly contested because there was so much on the line,” N. Un. Izpilddirektors Bobby Russo teica. “We closed the season in grand style with great matches and a loud, packed house that’s been the Lowell tradition for 72 gadiem. There were some disputed decisions and the crowd let everybody know how they felt after a few of the fights.

“We have a lot of talent on this year’s Team New England. It’s a strong team with some fighters who now have national experience like Angel Gonzalez, Felix Parilla, Liz Leddy, Miguel Teo and Fernely Felix, Jr. The other fighters look like they could do very well at the National Golden Gloves.”

N.E. featherweight champion Felix Parilla (WNE), North Haven, CT, was selected as the Thomas Costello Memorial Award winner as Most Outstanding Boxer.

Most Outstanding Boxer Felix Parilla

The Rocky Marciano Memorial Award as the Most Outstanding Heavyweight Boxer was presented to Lowell, MA’s Edmond Worley, who edged Randolph, MA’s Edit McApman, 4-1, to clinch the team title for Central New England in the second to last bout of the night.

The unofficial Fight of the Night was a toss up between lightweights Jonathan DePina un Elijah Peixoto (DePina won 3-2) un middleweights Michael Fontanez un Victor Reynoso (Fontanez won 3-2).

In the most anticipated match of the evening, Mansfield, MA welterweight James Perella (SNE) defeated USA No. 5-rated and defending N.E. čempions Josniel Castro(NNE), by way of a controversial 5-0 unanimous yet very closely contested decision that drew the wrath of the disapproving crown.

USA No. 7 rated light heavyweight Miguel Teo (CNE), of Marlboro, MA, took a unanimous 5-0 decision versus Rashane Doyle (SNE), Bostonas.

In a N.E. super heavyweight rematch, Danbury, CT’s Fernely Felix, Jr. (WNE) repeated by the same score las last year, 3-2, against Providence’s Tim Hatfield(SNE), for his third straight N.E. virsraksts.

In women’s competition, Portland, ME lightweight Liz Leddy (NNE) captured her seventh N.E. women’s title, taking a unanimous 5-0 decision over Willow Crawford(CNE), Mančestras, NH, unanimous 5-0 lēmums, while USA No 10- novērtētie Ashleigh Moore (CNE), representing Buzzards Bay, MA, won a unanimous 5-0 decision against Gorham, ME’s Lindsay Kyanjohnian (NNE), who was runner-up for the second year in a row after she took top honors in 2016.

Ieņēmumi no Lowell Sun labdarības Golden Gloves čempionāts iet uz nosūtot Jaunanglijas Golden Cimdi čempionus, lai Nacionālās Golden Gloves čempionāts (sākot Maijs 14, 2018 Omaha, Nebraska), papildus atbalstot vietējos sportistus un area vingrošanas zāles, zēni & Meitenes klubs, zupas virtuvēm, bezpajumtnieku patversmes, vēža fondi, stipendijas un daudzas citas lieliskas labdarības cēloņi.

New England Golden Gloves Executive Director: Bobby Russo

Direktors konkursantu: Art Ramalho

Vadītājs amatpersonu: Laurie Purcell

Ring diktors: John Vena

Norises vieta: Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 Merrimack St., Lowell, MA

Mājas lapa: www.lowellgoldengloves.com, www.lowellauditorium.com

Čivināt: @LowellGloves