GenSan leads charge to gold medal clash in ABAP tilt

TAGBILARAN, Bohol—The Bornea brothers of General Santos, Jake and Jade, pulled off contrasting yesterday to lead the charge of the former Dadiangas province to the gold medal bouts in the semifinals of the PLDT-ABAP National Amateur Boxing Championship at the Cogon gym here.

Jake Bornea pummeled the fancied Samboy Lao of Misamis Oriental, 21-9, in the 48-kilogram junior boys light flyweight class, while Jade required a last-second flurry to edge another MisOr bet, Klemen Earl Cabahit, 11-10, in the 50kg boys flyweight category, the twins assured of silver medals.

In other silver medal fights, GenSan opened its penultimate day surge with Regel Lou Alde downing Aglayan’s Robert Paradero, 13-6 (48kg jr. boys pinweight); Cebu City’s Junrel Jimenez edged Cabadbaran’s Jilnar Libranza, 9-7 (46kg jr. boys pinweight); Mandaue’s Bryan Remedio outclassed Negros’ Feleciano Santiago, 7-2 (48kg jr. boys light fly); Davao del Norte’s Charnie Jun Magsayo defeated Tayabas’ Jeric Ferrer, 15-10 (50kg jr. boys fly); Negros’ Jossa Santisteban nipped Tayabas’ Angelica Eleazar, 11-10 (56kg jr. girls pinweight); Leyte’s Aira Villegas clobbered GenSan’s Alexcel Dar Gantes, 18-10 (46kg jr. girls pinweight); and Tagbilaran B’s Daniel Banol hammered Manolo Fortich’s Melvin Jerusalem, 23-10 (46kg boys pinweight).

The losers will take home bronze medals.

Among those who witness the semifinal bouts was Kazakhstan’s Aziz Koshambetov, executive director of the Asian Boxing Federation. /ABAP media bureau