Erne Boxing Club’s remarkable season continued last week with Kaci Crowley scoring two good wins at the National Boxing Stadium in Dublin to be crowned National champion for the second successive year and the club’s third National champion of 2017.

Competing in the Girl 2 (Under 13’s) 55kgs class, Crowley was pitted against namesake Kasey Delaney (Whitechurch Boxing Club) from Dublin in the semifinal.

The opening round was a pick-em with Delaney throwing the greater volume of punches and Crowley landing the cleaner shots. However, in round two, Crowley was very dominant, she upped the pace and applied good pressure throughout and again landed with quality punches.

The final session started very close as both combatants threw plenty of punches but in the final third of the round, Crowley finished the stronger and had her opponent under immense pressure in the closing seconds to secure the round and earn a hard-fought but much-deserved unanimous 5-0 points decision.

In the final Kaci Crowley came up against Wexford’s Aine Doyle (St Mary’s New Ross BC) and put on a boxing master class.

Crowley started fast and working well behind the jab forced her strong and aggressive opponent on the back foot.

Crowley landed with several quality punches throughout the round but after a sustained attack her opponent was forced to take a standing count just before the bell.

In round two, Doyle came out firing punches and gallantly tried to turn things around but Crowley soon found the range again and after several unanswered punches the referee called a halt to the contest and awarded Crowley victory by TKO.

The two victories in Dublin extended Crowley’s unbeaten run to sixteen contests, since her sole defeat in her maiden competition at the Ringside World Championships nearly two years ago.

Kaci’s father and Erne Boxing Club’s Head coach Sean Crowley commented, “Kaci has done herself and the Erne Boxing Club very proud; five Ulster titles, two National titles and a host of international Gold medals on route to compiling her winning streak is a measure of how talented she is.

“We hope to send her to the Ringside Championships in the near future as she has the capability and experience to win a world title but will need the support of the local community to make this dream possible.

“Her success and the success of our other two champions Mark Kells and Joanna Czerwinska is the product of a great team effort by the coaching staff and volunteers. We thank Greg Copeland, Jim Toye, Aidan Kelly, Sean Crudden and an unsung hero of the club Mary Ferguson who does a fantastic job behind the scenes looking after the club premises.”

The Erne Boxing Club advise that they are chasing further glory over the coming months with boxers Harris Crowley and Mark Kells seeking National honors in National Junior and Senior Cadet championships respectively plus several boxers will be aiming for titles in the Northern Ireland Boys & Girls Clubs Championships (formerly CYP’s).

The clubs hall of three National (Al-Ireland) titles, six Ulster titles, five Mid Ulster titles, five Tyrone & Fermanagh titles plus Gold medals at Louth and Longford/Westmeath Open championships has made them the leading and most successful club in the Fermanagh & Omagh council district this season.

And with more championship campaigns still to come, the great success story may yet produce more headlines this term.