BOXING Five Southside fighters capture Gloves victories

Charlie Fagan was presented with the Best Fighter Trophy.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Five fighters representing the Southside Boxing Club won championships Saturday night in the finals of the Youngstown Golden Gloves tournament at the Krakusy Hall.
It began early when hard punching Ronnie Hamayle from Jack Loew's Southside Boxing Club won a three-round decision over Toledo's Calvin Grolikely for the 100-pound Junior Olympic title.
Southside's Charlie Fagan won a three-round decision over Chet Peters from Cleveland for the 119-pound Junior Olympic crown. It was a toe-to-toe non-stop slugfest that had Peters having an early advantage, but Fagan stayed in and exchanged shots with the Cleveland fighter. In the final round, Fagan forced the action as Peters took a standing eight count.
Fagan was presented with the Best Fighter Trophy.
The 165-pound Open championship between Southside's Darnell Boone and Anthony Pietrantonio from Buckeye Elks was an action-packed four-rounder.
Boone was the aggressor throughout the fight, using his all weapons to get the decision over Pietrantonio, who never stopped punching.
The two fighters are close friends and they embraced before and after the fight. But during the action, they threw shots at each other as if they were the worst of enemies. The difference was Boone's left hook.
"I knew to beat Anthony I had to be as good as him with my left hook and I had to keep my jab working and stay on top of him," Boone said.
Other bouts
Chris Hazimahalis, with a good left jab and superior boxing skills, won the 132 novice title with a four-round decision over Southside stablemate Lou Zamudio.
Durrell Richardson, who won the 2002 Nationals in Denver had his hands full in winning a four-round decision and the 152 pound championship over Cleveland's Delaney Howard.
Howard was the aggressor, but Richardson, a southpaw, did a nice job of counterpunching and using his right jab.
The only bout of the night that didn't go the distance saw Josh Harris of Buckeye Elks win the 178 Open title by stopping Mike Golkiewicz from Toledo in the fourth round.
Harris (13-3, 10 knockouts), a southpaw, used a long right jab and twice decked Golkiewicz with solid rights until the referee stopped the contest at 23 seconds of the fourth round.
"I was just quicker, more powerful and my timing was right," said Harris.
Novice
Tommy Joseph of Downtown Boxing Center won the 152 Novice title with a four-round decision over Dana Bullard from Wooster. Joseph, in his first amateur bout, used a two-fisted attack to the head and body.
Mike Sackela, fighting for Buckeye Elks for the 152-pound Junior Olympic Championship, lost to a very aggressive Terrell Gausha from Cleveland.
Willie Harris from Akron and Carl Cole from Wooster won the 142 and 156 pound Junior Olympian titles, respectively.
Cleveland's David Colon won the 165 Novice title and Norman Mills took the Open heavyweight crown with a decision over Roosevelt Johnson.
Loew, who also put on the tournament, said, "This was a big success and it will be bigger and better next year when we will have more participants and go to three nights of boxing."