Mitchell beats male boxers to the punch

Published on Saturday 26 April 2008 10:42

HOLYROOD boxing club's female contender Louise Mitchell upstaged her male colleagues by winning the Best Boxer of the Show award on a varsity bill in St Andrews.

The Craigmillar-based club's lightweight outpointed Aberdeen rival Laura Robertson at the event promoted at the Fife university's student union by current Scottish light-heavyweight champion Tom Carter.

Carter, himself a medical student, said: "Louise and Laura Robertson, produced an enthralling but bloody ring war that thrilled the crowd.

"Louise deservedly won the Trophy for being far and away the best boxer – male or female – in the show."

Leith Victoria featherweight Alistair Hardie gained revenge over Midlothian's Scott Freeman, who elimininated him from the Scottish championships earlier this year by narrowly outpointing the noted body puncher.

Another Leith Vics fighter, lightweight Paddy Jummelle beat Holyrood's Phil Coppola, also on points.

Meanwhile, at the Bee-Gee Multi-nations tournament in Finland last night, Gilmerton's Scottish light-welterweight champion John Thain lost his quarter-final bout to local boxer Finn Chris Engber by a narrow 16-14 margin.

And Sparta pair, light-flyweight Brodie Robertson and featherweight Chris McHale, both lost on points against Dunfermline's Danny Carlin and Craigmillar's Jason Easton respectively, at a Fauldhouse club show at Whitburn Miner's club.