The chance that two Del Sol youth boxing club girls have to compete for a national title is contingent on their ability to cover an estimated $1,300 in expenses for the trip.

“I’m trying to sell some of the stuff in my room,” Jayla Brown, 10, said Saturday at the Gateway Area Community Center gym on South Bluff Boulevard where she and Patience Templeton, 13, train six days a week with about 20 other young boxers.

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