BOXING Golden Gloves return to Krakusy

Anthony Pietrantonio and Darnell Boone will fight in tonight's top bout.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The return of the Golden Gloves at Krakusy Hall on South Avenue has 16 bouts scheduled for tonight, when champions will be crowned.
There will be six open, six novice and four Junior Olympic bouts, with Youngstown fighters competing for 12 titles.
The expected top fight of the evening is the 165-pound open bout between Anthony Pietrantonio from the Buckeye Elks and Darnell Boone from the Southside Boxing Club.
Both fighters came out of outstanding fights last week when Pietrantonio, with a good left hook, won a four-round decision over Cleveland's Ronnie Johnson, and Boone did a two-fisted number on Rashen Wright.
Pietrantonio and Boone are friendly rivals with both having a longtime yearning to fight each other.
Good fights
Another top bout will have Cleveland's Delaney Howard in a 152-pound battle with Durrell Richardson from the Southside Boxing Club.
Both fighters have been to the nationals, with Richardson a 147- pound champion at Denver in 2002.
Along with Boone and Pietrantonio, another local winner from last week who advanced to the championship round is 119-pounder Charlie Fagan, from the Southside boxing Club, who appears to be one of the better Junior Olympians from this area.
Also, Chris Hazimahalis from Campbell is a novice 132-pounder from the Southside Boxing Club.
Going for a 152-pound novice title after a good outing last Saturday will be Mike Sackela, who is trained at the Buckeye Elks by John Hobart and Nick Marsh.
Sackela is an Austintown Fitch High student and since beginning an amateur career less than a year ago, he has won Sub-novice Golden Glove titles in Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Another local boxer on the card is Steve Perry, who battled Hazimahalis last weekend. Perry, a Mineral Ridge sophomore who trains at the Downtown Boxing Center, will be in a 140-pound novice bout.
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the first bout of the night will be at 7.
Tickets cost $10 for general admission and $15 for reserved seats.