Youth Olympic box­ing qual­i­fi­er Makieve “The Sniper” Bellille got a con­fi­dence-boost­ing win over Josi­ah “Jig­saw” McEach­ern in the main bout of a card held at Jer­ry Junc­tion Car Park, Wa­ter­loo Road, Cara­pichaima, on Fri­day night (Sep­tem­ber 18).

Bellille, who had a string of im­pres­sive per­for­mances at the Olympic qual­i­fiers in Bangkok, Thai­land, last March, win­ning twice against home­town favourites Rey­jan Palen and Damar Robin­son be­fore in­juries led to a loss to Thai­land’s Hous­sam Boucheta in a wel­ter­weight quar­ter­fi­nal con­test, got the bet­ter of McEach­nie, a gold medal win­ner at the Na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onships ear­li­er this year, via unan­i­mous de­ci­sion, 5-0 on points.

He was prepar­ing for the Youth Olympics, which will be held for the Youth Olympics, which will take place in Dakar, Sene­gal, from Oc­to­ber 30 to No­vem­ber 13.

At the na­tion­al cham­pi­onships at the South­ern In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do, Jig­saw carved his way to the fi­nal with a vic­to­ry over Jor­dan Mal­oney and sealed the ti­tle with a tri­umph over Adri­an Mc Ken­na.

Al­so on Fri­day night, Jaden Castel­lano of the Oc­tavius Box­ing Gym de­feat­ed Shalome Phillip of the Gold­en Fist Gym in a 75 kg elite con­test, while Ner­aj Ma­hadeosingh of Mitch Ath­let­ics Gym got the bet­ter of An­ge­lo Al­leyne of Gold­en Fist in a 60 kg elite bat­tle.

Fri­day’s re­sults

69 kg: Alex Lopez (YTRC) bt Ti­quan Gar­cia (Ed­son Breedy)

75kg Elite: Jemel Joseph (Siparia) bt Ju­dah Rigaud (Gold­en Fist) - Ref­er­ee Stopped Con­test

90+kg Elite: Nick­quan Mc Far­lane (Ed­son Greedy) bt Joshua Har­riper­sad (Hitch)

57kg Youth: Fabio Ja­cob (Ed­son Greedy) bt Glen Men­doza (YTRC)

47kg Youth: Amelia Pyle (Ed­son Breedy) vs Grace Ram­nath (Faith)

55kg Ju­nior: Za­keem Smith (YTRC) bt Kyle An­drews (Undis­put­ed)

44kg Ju­nior: Sean Ram­nath (YTRC) bt Val­ma­kee Tom (Faith)

76kg Ju­nior: Kailon Pantlitz (Gold­en Fist) bt Ster­ling Sargeant (YTRC) - Ref­er­ee Stopped Con­test

65kg Elite Novice: Kyle Prescott (Prodi­gy) bt Quinn Bar­clay (Siparia) - Ref­er­ee Stopped Con­test

60kg Elite: Ner­aj Ma­hadeosingh (Mitch) bt An­ge­lo Al­leyne (Gold­en Fist)

65kg Elite: Dar­nell Sinaswee (Prod­i­fy) bt An­tho­ny Joseph (RC Box­ing)

80kg Elite Novice: Kel Sobers (Mitch) btUmesh Ram­per­sad (Ul­ti­mate)

75kg Elite: Jaden Castel­lano (Oc­tavius) bt Shalome Phillip (Gold­en Fist)

67kg Youth: Makieve Bellille (Undis­put­ed) bt Josi­ah Mc Each­nie (Hitch)