CLOSE CALL
Philip Sharkey watches Bange win a tight one
WRAYSBURY’S Tony Bange squeaked home after six high-paced rounds against Rochdale’s always good value
Richard Helm on new promoter Anthony Oparaocha’s third Tolworth Leisure Centre show.
Happy to throw leather from all angles, Helm is as game as they come but Bange’s more accurate shots won the day, 58-57, for referee Chas Coakley.
Returning after an absence of three years, former Southern Area Champion Nick Parpa steam-rolled
Nicolas Holcapfel. Having tasted the canvas twice, a third right hand from the Palmers Green puncher persuaded Lee Every to stop the contest at 2-33 of the opener.
After a cautious start, New Cross 37-year-old John Harding Jnr soon had Southampton’s Vasif Mamedov’s
number, running out a 59-55 winner for Mr Coakley.
Lee Every officiated two genuine prospects as he handed West Moseley’s unsmiling assassin Alfie Winter
a whitewash 60-54 verdict over Leicester’s brave George Rogers, and Enfield’s classy George Mitchell got the 60-55 nod against Pavel Garaj, who gritted his teeth despite a bloodied nose to snatch a share of a round.
The show opened with a trio of 40-36 shutouts in favour of Croydon’s Ziggy Macauley, Spencer Oakman and Guildford’s Alfie Clegg over Irlam’s Ryan Hibbert, Middleton’s Darryl Sharp and Tanzanian Baraka Mchongi respectively. Lee Every officiated Macauley and Chas Coakley was the third man for Clegg and first-timer Oakman. Coakley recorded Sutton’s Aaron Prospere 39-37 victory over Pole Jakub Laskowski, the same points margin Every tabbed in favour of Catford’s Lee Adam Ace Barnett’s bout with Camden caretaker Robbie Chapman.