Jenny Lehane gives winning start to Ireland's World Boxing Championship
Ellen O'Donoghue
Jenny Lehane got Ireland's World Boxing Championship hopes off to a winning start this evening.
She's through to the last 16 of the women's 54kg division after a points victory.
Lehane won on all judges’ cards over Poland’s Wiktoria Rogalinska, who in the third round tumbled out of the ring.
In the end, the 27-year-old bantamweight won the bout clearly by a 5-0 margin to meet USA’s Yoseline Perez in the last 16 on Monday afternoon. The scorecard read 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 29-28.
Team Ireland co-captain Adam Hession went out of the draw in the second Irish bout of the evening session. Following a technical bout with 18-year-old Australian Jacob Cassar, Hession fell to a split decision to lose 4-1 in the 60kg category.
Kelyn Cassidy lost to Noel Pacheco of the Dominican Republic in the 80kg division by split decision in the final Irish bout of the day.
The 27-year-old from Waterford led after the first round in a tight bout, where it was difficult to separate the two. In the end, the judges went for Pacheo in a 3-2 split decision, 30-27, 27-30, 30-27, 29-28, 28-29.
