The Star (Jamaica)

Reynolds in charge at MBU?

- KAVARLY ARNOLD

in Tuesday’s STAR Sports, which stated that the two-time champions are under new leadership as the highly controvers­ial Orville Powell has stepped aside as club president.

RELEGATION ZONE

Reynolds has become one of the most admired coaches in the west after guiding Rusea’s High to the daCosta Cup crown last year over a star-studded Clarendon College team at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay.

He didn’t stop there. He joined the RSPL outfit FC Reno midway the season as the technical director and helped to steer the club clear of relegation zone after they started slipping.

Reynolds, who is also a teacher at Rusea’s, has been on a roll over the past caught me with some good shots, but eventually I won, and that is what counts.”

There was no doubt that Salas wanted an early knockout, as he came out with blazing fists. Holmes had said beforehand, that he would try to keep the fight at long range, but with Salas boring in and throwing hard hooks at his body and head, Holmes had no alternate but to retaliate. It was a three years, picking up trophies at the schoolboy football level. Before his arrival in the west, he led Wolmer’s Boys to the Walker Cup title in 2015, then the rich FLOW Cup, referred to as the Champions League of schoolboy football, in 2016. He then took only a few months to win the hearts of the west by adding the daCosta Cup to his resume.

He does not have as glowing a track record at the senior level, but Reynolds led Humble Lion to the semi-finals of the RSPL in 2015 and also had three stints at Sporting Central Academy in efforts to keep them in top-flight football. Following his FLOW Cup success in 2016, he guided Old Harbour Bay United to the St. Catherine Major League title and qualificat­ion to the South Central Super League. good first test for both fighters and Holmes prevailed, as took the round.

Salas kept on the attack in the second, and it paid dividends as he put Holmes down. Holmes took the mandatory eight count and then came back fighting, making it clear that he would not be a pushover.

There was a constant ebb and flow throughout the night and the crowd loved it. They got behind Holmes several times with chants of “Frog, Frog, Frog”, and this gave Holmes the lift that he needed. He gave his all. A testament to his tenacity was that after being knocked down again in round nine, he came back brilliantl­y, to win the final round.

In other bouts, Sakima Mulllings stopped Alejandro Hernandez, who retired after the first round and Nico Yeyo outpointed Ricardo Planter.

 ?? GLADSTONE TAYLOR ?? Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes (left) on the offensive against Ricardo ‘Magic Man’ Salas during the Wray and Nephew Contender 2018 Final held at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Wednesday night.
GLADSTONE TAYLOR Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes (left) on the offensive against Ricardo ‘Magic Man’ Salas during the Wray and Nephew Contender 2018 Final held at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Wednesday night.
 ?? WESTERN BUREAU: ?? Reynolds
WESTERN BUREAU: Reynolds

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