12:00pm Saturday 30th January 2010
TEENAGE titan George Andrews will be battling for national quarter-final success tonight, writes Tony Kelly.
The 14-year-old Andrews is flying the York Amateur Boxing Club banner in the national schoolboy boxing championships as the Yorkshire Open Clubs junior schoolboy champion at Havercroft, near Barnsley.
A member of York ABC for the last two years, Andrews has shrugged off a recent knee injury to return to the ring with a clout. He lifted the Yorkshire crown – the first York boxer in the open championships to do so for several years – when he beat Ryan Quimby of Leeds.
Tonight he faces the reigning Midlands champion for a place in the semi-finals of the 38 to 40 kilogramme class ‘C’ weight division and York ABC trainer Billy Wilson is confident the youngster can make the last four.
Said Wilson: “He is proving to be a cracking fighter and I can see him reaching the semi-finals.”
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