Moylette bows out at Intermediates
Saturday, 28 November 2009AIBA World Youth champion Ray Moylette bowed out of the National Intermediate Championships following a quarter-final loss to Paul T Hyland at the National Stadium in Dublin last night.
Hyland, of the Immaculata club in Belfast, marched into the last four after earning a superb 13-6 win over the St Anne's Westport clubman.
Sean McComb, John Cooley and James Fryers ensured that Belfast won the first three bouts of the evening's quarter-final session at the home of Irish boxing, Fryers beating Ger Matthews in an-all Belfast derby.
And Oakleaf's Darren Quigley came from behind to make it four in a row for Ulster with a 4-2 win over Drimnagh's Michael Stephens - an excellent left on the back foot sealing the win in the final round.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Carroll came from being 3-1 down to beat Jason Conroy, while Mark O'Hara posted Holy Trinity's second win of the night after outgunning Cork lightweight Declan Quinn.
Twintown's Paul Kelly maintained the northern province's domination with a verdict over Patrick Linehan and Dungloe's Paul McShane continued the trend with a dominant 11-2 win over Robert Murphy.
Bray's Stephen Coughlan stopped James McDonagh in the third round of their 64kg contest after the Dockers man took a third standing count.
However, Toome ace Jamie Kennedy had the last word for Ulster when he beat Dublin's Martin Doran in the last quarter-final of the evening.
Emma Agnew and Patricia Roddy emerged victorious from the night's female semi-finals. Agnew beat Mairead Keane 14-7 in the lightweight decider and Bray light middleweight Roddy beat Deirdre Lyons.
The Championships resume at 2pm on Saturday followed by another session at 7pm.
