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BOXING: Castle Hill fight night

CASTLE Hill ABC twins Simon and Chris Jenkinson will have home advantage when they fight for North West Counties championship belts on Thursday night.

The brothers will feature on a 10-bout bill, hosted by the Castle Hill club at Tonge Ward Labour Club in Ainsworth Road.

Simon takes on Mark Heffron of Northside over three, three-minute rounds at 67kilos while Chris meets Matthew Ryan (Middleton Select) for the 59k belt.

Their team-mate Raiza Ali will take on Jack Catterall of Chorley ABC over four two-minute rounds at 57k — one of three junior box-off bouts from which the Great Britain and England selectors will decide who competes in this year’s world and Commonwealth youth championships.

In the two other box-off bouts two members of Egans ABC of Manchester will go head to head at 67k while at 81k John Newell of Shannon and Ancoats meets D Linnerhan of the Viking club on the Isle of Man.

Also on the Tonge Ward bill will be Castle Hill’s Ben Broadbeant in a return bout against Liam Rowbotham (Positive Impact, Bolton). Castle Hill’s Kieran Briscoe takes on S Khan (Positive Impact), Lewis Cook (Bolton Lads’ and Girls’ Club) fights Y Hussain (Olympic Power Mill, Bury), M Britten (Olympic Power Mill) meets D Goowin (Darn Hill and Heywood) and E Mostyn (New Bury and Farnworth) fights D Price (Olympic Power Mill).

Admission is £10, doors open at 7pm and boxing starts at 8pm.

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