Daina Moorehouse and Dean Clancy will fight for medals at the Boxing World Cup in Brazil after winning their respective last-16 bouts on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Moorehouse was a 4-1 split-decision winner over Poland’s Natalia Kuczewska in her 51kg bout, with the judges scoring it 28:29; 30:27; 30:27; 30:27, 29:28.<\/p>\n
Moorehouse, who will face Alua Balikibekova of Kazakhstan in the quarter-final tomorrow evening, told Boxing Ireland: “I felt like it took me a while to get in to the fight, but I was up on the scorecards.<\/p>\n
“The referee told us to box two or three times, but, it was all about patience today.<\/p>\n
“Back in tomorrow, and each day I’ll just get better, and better.”<\/p>\n
Clancy advanced on a split decision against Hugo Barron of Mexico, winning on a countback after he was deducted a point. The scorecard read: 28:28*, 26:30, 27:29, 29:27, 28:27.<\/p>\n
“The first round, it took me a few minutes to get in to the groove with things, to find my range with him,” said the 24-year-old Sligo man.<\/p>\n
“I knew I was 3-2 down and I didn’t panic. I came back in the second round and got it convincingly, and the third.”<\/p>\n
He will fight Brazil’s Yuri Falcao tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n
Patsy Joyce, in his last-16 55kg, fight, was knocked down twice and received two point deductions, in losing out to Tajikistan’s Meroj Sufijonov on scorelines of 29:25; 29:25; 29:25; 29:26; 29:25.<\/p>\n
Wins for Daina Moorehouse and Dean Clancy at the World Boxing Cup #RTESport<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/y1ypVjOMxh<\/a><\/p>\n