2018 Team New England ( missing Angel Gonzalez) (pictures courtesy of Edward Boches / Boches Photography)
Lowell, Pawg. (Lub ob hlis ntuj 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, starting Tej zaum 14, 2018 nyob rau hauv Omaha, Nebraska.
Central 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. Thiab. Executive Director Bobby Russo hais tias. “We closed the season in grand style with great matches and a loud, packed house that’s been the Lowell tradition for 72 xyoo. 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 (Ua), ntawm North Haven, I, 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.
Rocky Marciano Memorial Award winner Edmond Worley
The unofficial Fight of the Night was a toss up between lightweights Jonathan DePina thiab Eliyas Peixoto (DePina won 3-2) thiab middleweights Michael Fontanez thiab Victor Rechnoso (Fontanez won 3-2).
In the most anticipated match of the evening, Mansfield, Ma welterweight James Perella (Tus nees) defeated USA No. 5-rated and defending N.E. champion 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 (Npiav), of Marlboro, MA, took a unanimous 5-0 decision versus Rashane Doyle (Tus nees), ntawm Boston.
In a N.E. super heavyweight rematch, Danbury, CT’s Fernely Felix, Jr. (Ua) repeated by the same score las last year, 3-2, against Providence’s Tim Hatfield(Tus nees), for his third straight N.E. title.
In women’s competition, Portland, ME lightweight Liz Leddy (NNE) captured her seventh N.E. women’s title, taking a unanimous 5-0 kev txiav txim siab dhau Willow Crawford(Npiav), ntawm Manchester, NH, unanimous 5-0 kev txiav txim siab, while USA No 10- Rated Ashleigh Moore (Npiav), 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.
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RAUG RAWS NTAUB NTAWV TAU
(Feb.22, 2018)
New Englam Tournament ntawm Champions
OPEN DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS
BANTAMWEIGHTS (114 lbs.)
Angel Gonzalez, Hartford, I / Ua
WDEC3 (5-0)
Shin Murinda, Haverhill, MA / Npiav
FEATHERWEIGHTS (123 lbs.)
Felix Parilla, Sab qaum teb Haven, I / Ua
WRSC1 (2:31)
Danny Pang, Portland, KUV / NNE
WOMEN’S LIGHTWEIGHTS (132 lbs.)
Liz Leddy, Portland, KUV / NNE
WDEC3 (5-0)
Willow Crawford, Manchester, NH / Npiav
LIGHTWEIGHTS (132 lbs.)
Joseph DePina, Dorchester, MA / Npiav
WDEC3 (3-2)
Eliyas Peixoto, Providence, RI / Tus nees
Junior Welterweights (141 lbs.)
Sharad Collier, Hartford, I / Ua
WDEC3 (5-0)
Brandon Higgins, North Chelmsford, MA / Npiav
WOMEN’S JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHTS (141 lbs.)
Ashleigh Moore, Buzzards Bay, MA / Npiav
WDEC5 (5-0)
Lindsay Kyajohnian, Gorham, KUV / NNE
WELTERWEIGHTS (152 LBS.)
James Perella, Mansfield, MA / Tus nees
WDEC3 (5-0)
Josniel Castro, Portland, KUV / NNE
MIDDLEWEIGHTS (165 lbd.)
SUPER HEAVYWEIGHTS (201+ lbs.)
Fernely Feliz, Jr., Danbury, I / Ua
WDEC (3-2)
Tim Hatfield, Providence, RI / Tus nees
TEAM STANDINGS
Npiav – Central New England – 5
Ua – Western New England – 4
NNE – Qaum Teb New England – 1
Tus nees – Yav qab teb New England – 1
NTAUB NTAWV:
Tshiab hais Golden hnab looj tes Executive Director: Bobby Russo
Director of Contestants: Art Ramalho
Chief of Officials: Laurie Purcell
Ring Announcer: John Vena
Twitter: @LowellGloves
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