Boxing: Skey eyes cap call-up after youth championship triumph

LOCHEND featherweight Kevin Skey powered his way to a Scottish Youth Championship title in Coatbridge last night, writes BRIAN DONALD.

The Capital boxer outclassed Fifer Tommy Brunton of the Denbeath Club 19-5 with fierce body punching and dazzling left jabs.

Lochend coach Terry McCormack said afterwards: "That was Scottish international form against a tough opponent, so Kevin must soon be called up for international duty."

Queensferry light-welterweight Chris McHale lost out to Clydebank's Martin Harkins 9-5 in his final.

A crashing right hand to the jaw which visibly wobbled McHale in the third was typical of Harkins' dominance in the last two rounds although, with his eye on a place in the World Youth championships in April, McHale had started brightly and was even 4-3 ahead going into round three.

The lightweight final saw Queensferry's Sean Spence push his experienced opponent from Ayrshire's Doon Valley club, Martin McCord, all the way.

The two fighters were level at 3-3 going ino the final round but a last-round surge saw the Ayrshire man win by 6-3.

In the 1992 lightweight final, Kelty's Connor Law counterpunched too hard and too often for Leith Victoria's Sean White, who lost by 14-4.