-Guyana assured of a bronze medal at the third junior Commonwealth Youth Games through Clevon Rock
Rock solid!
That’s how Guyana’s Clevon Rock was on day three of the third junior Commonwealth Games championships in Pune, India.
The Guyanese turned in a fine display to defeat Nigeria’s Sarafadeen Shittu winning 7-2 on points.
The win sent Rock on to the semi-finals and guaranteed him of at least a bronze medal.
Guyana’s Herlando Allicock lost yesterday morning local time to Zack Davies of Wales 22-3.
Allicock lost the first round 0-5, the second 0-9, the third 1-3 and the final round 2-5.
Rock comes up against Scotland’s Josh Taylor in the semi-finals which takes place at 6am today.
In the two previous games held in Edinburgh, Scotland 2000 and Bendingo, Australia 2004 Guyana did not medal.
Rock had a sensational start to the tournament when he knocked out Kenya’s Kingstone Otieno in 0:46 seconds of the first round.
Against Shittu, the Guyanese won a close first round 2:1 but upped the tempo in the second round taking it 4:1.
Round three saw a close contest but no fighter managed to score while in the final round, Rock made sure he followed his corner’s advice and etched out a 1:0 round.
Referee Alvin Finch of England subsequently announced the fight in favour of Rock by a 7:2 margin.
Shittu had earlier gotten the better of Solomon Islands’ Mark Galo Apai who was saved by the referee 0:31 seconds into the third round after trailing 1:8 after the first two rounds.
Rock’s opponent in the semi-final, Taylor got through his first two fights by way of massive points win. In his first fight against Sri Lankan Milindu Abeyasingha, Taylor won by a 16:3 score and he defeated Xolani Mpushe from Republic of South Africa in the quarter-final round 13:1.
