In baseball, a batting average of .200 even .250 won’t win a lot of games.
But in another hitting sport, 10 New Mexico amateur boxers traveled to Shreveport, Louisiana, for last week’s USA Boxing National Championships. Two of them won titles; another made the finals.
Percentage-wise, that’s a pretty good haul.
Saturday night, Las Cruces’ Ariana Carrasco overwhelmed Texan Ruby Navarro in winning the women’s Youth Division (ages 17-18) 141-pound title. The bout was stopped in the second round, giving Carrasco the victory by RSC (referee stopped contest).
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On Tuesday, Las Cruces’ Joscelyn Olayo-Muñoz defeated Californian Mia Garcia by split (4-1) decision for the women’s Intermediate (13-14) 95-pound title.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. In Shreveport, Louisiana, Albuquerque amateur boxer Sharahya-Taina Moreu’s relentless body attack propelled her to a victory by split (3-2) decision on Friday over North Carolinian Stephanie Simon at the USA Boxing National Championships.
She’ll face Boston’s Arika Scoog on Saturday for the Elite Division title in the 152-pound weight class.
Moreu joins Las Cruces’ Ariana Carrasco as a finalist.
Carrasco advanced to the championship bout in the 141-pound Youth Division without having fought. With only three boxers entered in her weight class, Carrasco, the No. 1 seed, drew a bye and will face Ruby Navarro of Mission, Texas, for the title.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 15, 2021) There is no more of a family affair in USA Boxing than Kayla Gomezs, in which her mother, Crystal Aceves, and grandmother, Cindy Aceves, work her corner.
They will be together once again at the 2020 USA Boxing National Championships, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic from last December to March 25 - April 3, in Shreveport, La. The 18-year-old Gomez, who lives in El Paso (TX), is a youth flyweight (112 lbs.) boxer, who finished second at the 2019 National Championships, highlighting her first year in Youth competition. She has a growing supply of gold medals having finished on top at the 2019 & 2018 Western Regional Open, 2018 &
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SHREVEPORT, La Phase 3 of reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic means most businesses and events can increase capacity to 50 percent. It s a boost for local tourism after the lost year of 2020, with festival season on the way. This opens us up to new events that haven t been able to happen to this point, said Stacy Brown, President of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau. It also allows us to increase attendance to some of those already planned.
Gov. John Bel Edwards order to further reopen the state appears to come too late for Holiday In Dixie, which traditionally opens festival season in April. But Mudbug Madness is eager for its comeback on Memorial Day weekend.