ST. LUCIA’S boxers who participated in the Caribbean Development Boxing Tournament which concluded in Guyana on Sunday evening had quite a learning experience. That’s the word coming from the SLBA Public Relations Officer Brian Mc Donald who also served as Team Manager.
Mc Donald said, “The St.Lucian boxers finished the tournament with four medals, two silver and two bronze. The silver medal winners were Marvin Anthony in the light heavyweight Division where he lost to Desmond Amsterdam of Guyana. The other silver medal was won by Lightweight Junior Kareem Boyce who lost to Junior Perreira from French Guyana in the finals.
The bronze medal winners were LyndelMarcellin in the elite Welterweight Division and Tahj Browne in the Youth Welterweight Division.
The other ST. Lucian boxers who were on tour as part of the team were Middleweight Arthur Langelier and Light welterweight Nathan Ferrari who lost very close controversial decisions to Guyanese boxers in the preliminary rounds of the tournament”.
Twelve countries along with host country Guyana took part in the tournament which has been tentatively scheduled for Barbados in 2016 with St. Lucia as stand-by host Jamaica has pledged to host the tournament in 2017.
Mc Donald said, “A meeting of regional presidents held Sunday came to a consensus that this tournament should continue as the major breeding ground for amateur boxers in the region. The meeting also discussed ways of improving and adding to the crop of boxing officials in the region, referees and judges who are AIBA certified and to bring back some of the countries which have been inactive in the sport for sometime”.