Paul Coleman

News from 10 March 2010 in Delhi

The team trained at the Competition venue early in the day and again the coached deemed this to a very productive session. Training in the evening was held within the hotel and again weights were bang on target.

Despite the upset stomachs yesterday, the food is of a high standard and mainly traditional Indian food with some European items thrown in. The Boxers are coping well with the change of food and there is plenty of fresh fruit available to them too.

Colin McEwen, the team manager will be sending on more photos from the event and these will be posted as soon as they are received.

News from 09 March 2010 in Delhi

The team had a training session organised in the morning at the Competition venue but this was cancelled by event security.  This was no bad thing as most of the boxers were complaining of an upset stomach after breakfast.

A training session was held in the evening and all the boxers took part. This was very beneficial and all the boxers worked extremely hard.

Weights were taken before and after training and they were all satisfactory.

Adrian Lear of the Metropolitan Police, and part of the security team working with Indian authorities on the 2010 Commonwealth Games, was also in touch with Colin McEwan to see if he could attend some of the boxing. He will also take the opportunity to address the boxers on security matters.

Andy Caulfield has also arrived safely and overall the team is in good spirits.

The programme for the second Scottish Senior Championship Semi Finals that will be held at the Time Capsule, Coatbridge is available for download in the documents section.

The above poster has been produced for the series of National Championship events at the Time Capsule in Coatbridge. The full address of the venue is 100 Buchanan Street, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, ML5 1DL and its website address is www.thetimecapsule.info.

The poster can also be downloaded from the documents section.

The Scottish Team arrived safely in New Delhi after a long flight from Malta. Many of the team were exhausted so a short training session was arranged to record the boxer’s weight then the team was sent to bed.

The boxers trained today (08.0.2010) at the hotel with the exception of Aston Brown who has developed a sore throat. Team Manager Colin McEwen acted promptly and arranged and appointment with Medical Officer for the tournament and he has given antibiotics to cure the infection. We are informed that Aston is feeling better this afternoon.

The team met with it’s Liaision Officer today then went to the competition venue. The team will partake in two training sessions tomorrow at the venue and photos of this will be posted in due course. The competition commences on 10 march 2010.

Aberdeen’s Treetops Hotel was the venue for the semi-finals of the Scottish Amateur Boxing Senior Championships on Friday the 5^th March. The annual event on the Northern District boxing calendar was organised by Kincorth ABC’s Norman Watt.

A large crowd of Aberdeen’s business community were wined and dined before the boxing, ensuring another successful evening, with the cream of amateur boxing in Scotland in their respective weight divisions providing the punch.

The show opened with a local contest outwith the championships between two young local schoolboy boxers, Billy Stewart of Aberdeen ABC and David Dalziel of Peterhead ABC over 3 x 1 min rounds. Dalziel won a closely fought bout on points.

The second bout was a quarter final between Brian Peacock of Barrhead and Robert Kaminsky of Denny at 75kgs. This bout came up because amateur boxers can’t box more than twice in 24 hours and they’d had two bouts at the preliminaries. Peacock won 10-5 on points with the greater accuracy in his punches.

3^rd bout of the show was the 1st of the semi-finals at 60kgs between Sean Dick of Paisley and Lewis Benson of Queensferry. Dick’s non-stop style unsettled the normally fluid Benson who had reach and height advantage, and Dick duly won with a score of  15-8.

The 2^nd semi-final at 60kgs featured Ryan Smith of Barrhead and Callum Susans of Dunfermline. Dick’s counter punching to Susan’s attacks was effective enough in this closely fought all action bout, and he duly won on points by 9-3.

The 69kgs opening semi-final featured Ryan Hamilton of Hillpark in Bannockburn against Garry Collins of Queensferry. This was a very hard fought bout between two well matched boxers, but two standing counts quickly followed by a third in round 2 forced the referee to call a halt with Hamilton piling on the pressure on the brave Collins.

The other semi-final at 69kgs had George Thomson of Stirling against Tommy Philbin of Lochend. Philbin showed his full range of skills both offensively and defensively in the face of sustained pressure from Thomson and he needed the latter, since Thomson was non-stop aggression. With a very close 5-4 score line Thomson took the decision in the bout of the night.

The initial 81kgs semi-final had Kevin McAllum of Dunfermline matched with Kevin Bruce of Kingdom in an all Fife bout.  Bruce’s accuracy with his overhand right brought the bout to a close in the opening round with McAllum suffering from a suspected broken nose and the referee stopping the bout.

The show closed with the other 81kgs semi-final between David Nelson of Kinross matched with Scott Hartley of Alloa. This was a fairly tousled affair with neither dominating, though Hartley was doing most of the attacking while Nelson countered. In the end Hartley progressed by 21-20 on the count back after the scores were tied at 10-10 at the end of the bout

The final of the 91+kgs will be fought between Michael McDonagh of Port Glasgow and Gary Cornish of Inverness when both their opponents failed to appear and they were both given a walk-over into the final.