Seema advances, Aruna gives walkover at women's boxing nationals

Rohtak (Haryana)  :  Asian Championship bronze medallist Seema Poonia of RSPB, while 2004 World Championship gold medalist Aruna Mishra gave walkover in the 2nd Elite Women's National Boxing Championships here on Saturday.

Seema annihilated a young Naganika Gonella in a lop-sided affair to advance while Aruna Mishra gave a walkover to Madhya Pradesh's Upasana Pandey.

Poonia started off the bout on an attacking note and put the burly Niharika Gonella on the backfoot as she showered her might on her opponent.

Nonetheless, Gonella fought back to land her jabs from close range but Poonia's strong hooks shook the Telangana challenger. Still, Gonella persevered through the rounds and tried her best to take the fight to her opponent.

At the end of three rounds, Seema registered a comprehensive 5-0 victory to advance to the next round where she would face a staunch fight from Uttar Pradesh's Arpita Singh who dominated her opponent and set up a mouth-watering clash against the recently crowned Asian Championship bronze medalist.

In another highly intense encounter, veteran boxer Bhagyabati Kachari of RSPB displayed her experience in the ring as she towered over Chandigarh's Himani and asserted her dominance from the word go.

The initial phases of the first-round saw the RSPB boxer land vicious punches which left her opponent with no answers to the onslaught. Into the second round, the referee halted the contest twice before declaring Himani not fit to fight anymore.

Results:
Light Flyweight (45-48kg): R. Lalinmawii (Mizoram) bt Uma Bauri (West Bengal) - (5-0); Puja Ranpal (Sikkim) bt Manasa Mattaparthi (Telengana) - (3-2)

Featherweight (54-57kg): Kamla Bisht (Uttarakhand) bt Sangeetha M (Tamil Nadu) - (RSC-1)

Lightweight (57-60kg): Priyanka Thakur (Punjab) bt Charma Shachikant (D&D) - (RSC-1); Aradhana Patel (Uttar Pradesh) bt Shiwani Kumar (Jharkhand) - (5-0); Monika (Haryana) bt Suparna Das (West Bengal) - (RSC-1)

Light Welterweight (60-64kg): Aarti Kama (Gujarat) bt A. Manisha (Andhra Pradesh) - (WO); Sohini (Chandigarh) bt Poonam Kaithawas (Maharashtra)- (5-0);) Anjali Machahary (Assam) bt Majjiga Mounika Yadav (Telengana) - (RSC-1)

Welterweight (64-69kg): Nupur (Haryana) bt Babita Bisht (Uttarakhand) - (5-0)

Middleweight (69-75kg): Upasana Pandey (Madhya Pradesh) bt Aruna Mishra (Jharkhand) - (walkover); Alari Boro (Assam) bt Kumari J (TN) - (WO); Kavita Goyat (AIP)bt Renu (Uttar Pradesh) - (5-0)

Middleweight (75-81kg): Laxmi Padaya (Jharkhand) bt Saara Qureshi (Telengana) - (RSC-1); Bhagyabati Kachari (RSPB) bt Himani (Chandigarh) - (RSC-2) 
Heavyweight (82kg): Jigyasa (Madhya Pradesh) bt Sangeeta (Uttarakhand) - (5-0); Arpita Singh (Uttar Pradesh) B. Ravi Chandrika (Andhra Pradesh)- (RSC-1); Seema Poonia (RSPB) bt Naganika Gonella (Telengana) - (5-0)