Boxing: Turner triumph sets up final showdown with Devanney
Monday December 07 2009
SEAN TURNER advanced to within one bout of adding to his U-21 title with a first-round stoppage of Daniel Sherry in the National Intermediate Championship semi-finals at the National Stadium.
The Drimnagh super-heavyweight, who had Olympic champion Michael Carruth and Irish coach Tony Davitt working his corner, will now meet Christopher Devanney in this Friday's 91kg+ final.
Bernard Roe is also just three three-minute rounds away from glory after beating Luke Keeler 9-5 in a full-blooded all-Dublin middleweight last-four duel at the home of Irish boxing.
The Dublin Docklands ace will now meet Belfast's Conrad Cummings, who will have Bernard Dunne's coach Harry Hawkins and Mickey Hawkins in his corner, in the 75kg final.
Cummings will be one of four Holy Trinity men competing in the finals along with Ruairi Dalton, Mark O'Hara and Sean McComb.
McComb will meet James Fryers in an all-Belfast final after the Immaculata man beat Darren Quigley 11-2. The Crumlin club lost five semi-finals in a row as Keeler, Stephen Carroll, Mark Carlyle, Robbie Burke and David Burke all lost out at the penultimate hurdle.
Carlyle was desperately unlucky as he was 2-0 up in the first round against Brian Fitzpatrick but was retired with a facial injury midway through the frame.
Gleann light-welterweight Gallagher was in uncompromising form, stopping Shaun McShane in round one, and Jamie Kennedy reversed a 2-1 deficit in the corresponding semi to deny Stephen Coughlan.
Kennedy, using right hand, left hook tactics to great effect, claimed the second 8-6. But Coughlan pulled back within one point of the Antrim ace in the third until Kennedy added another four points to his total.
Niall Murray, who advanced after Stephen Carroll had to retire in round three, will face Daniel Quinn in the 67kg decider after the Glasnevin man's victory over Michael Bustard.
Bustard handed the initiative to his opponent when he received a public warning for dropping his head in the third.
Irish Independent
