Love Wins Silver at PALs
Posted:October 11, 2007

The national Police Athletic League (PAL) Championships were held last week and a silver medal came home to Michigan. The 33rd annual event was held at the Oxnard, California PAL gym with more than 300 boxers participating from 27 states.

Kronk amateur J’Leon Love won three matches – two by decisions and one stoppage – before losing by two points in the finals on Saturday earning his second national silver medal.

J'Leon Love in 2006 file photo. Photo: Sportssummary.com

This was Love’s first appearance at PALs and his second national competition, excluding Ringside World, since beginning the sport less than two years ago. His opponent, Denis Douglin of Morganville, NJ, was a quarter-finalist at last year’s PAL.

Love, who just turned 20-years old, also won a silver medal at the U.S. Championships in May and represented the U.S. last month at the Golden Belt tournament in Romania.

Other Kronk boxers Domonique Dolton, LeAndre White and Craig Lewis also competed but lost in the quarters or earlier and Muskegon Area Boxing Club (MABC)’s Joel Flores lost in the quarter-finals of the Junior Division. Flores' brother, Federico, along with Javonn Barnes and Adrian Castanon. attended in 2006 but were not award winners.

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