Elgin Amateur Boxing Club’s Lukas Vaitekunas wins Boxing Scotland Golden Gloves title for second year running

Elgin Amateur Boxing Club’s Lukas Vaitekunas has won a Scottish youth title for the second year running.

Vaitekunas claimed the Boxing Scotland Golden Gloves title with victory at Ravenscraig regional sports centre in Motherwell.

He moved up a weight and defeated Greenock BC opponent Mikey McFarlane in the 80-86kg youth final.

In the elite 71-75kg category, two Elgin ABC fighters had to face each other in the quarter-finals.

Corey Rizza faced up to club mate Arran Devine in what was a difficult one for the Elgin coaches to watch, knowing for certain that one of their fighters would go out of the competition.

Head coach Paul Gordon said the two Elgin lads fought out an exceptional bout which could have went either way, but it was Rizza who had his hand raised on a 3-2 split decision.

Rizza then faced a daunting task in the semi-finals, as he took on number one seed Fred Hannaway from Keir Hardy BC.

Despite a determined effort by the Moray hopeful, it was Hannaway who won his way through to the final.

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