Boxers depart for Pan Am Games qualifiers

The four boxers flanked by Coach, Sebert Blake and President of GBA Steve Ninvalle pose for a photo before departure yesterday.

On their quest to clinch a Pan American Games berth next month in Canada, a four-member team of Guyana’s finest amateur boxers winged out to Mexico yesterday to compete at the Games qualifiers.Along with Coach Sebert Blake, the confident outfit left on a Copa Airlines flight destined for Tijuana where the qualifiers will be staged from June 4-9.

The association was up to Thursday battling on the ropes to secure funds, but their sojourn was made possible by the Government of Guyana, the