BOXING sensation Eva Hynd has been selected to fight for Scotland this week.
The 13-year-old, of Alloa Boxing Club, will take to the ring for the GB Three Nations competition which gets underway in Cardiff on Thursday and concludes on Sunday.
The competition is contested at schools, junior, youth and senior levels, with one country hosting, on rotation, all age groups in one multiple-day mega-event.
Leading up to the Three Nations in Wales, which will see Eva take on the best fighters from England and Wales, she has had a busy six weeks.
She won her bout Alloa Boxing Club's home show in Alloa Town Hall and has had assessments every weekend at Boxing Scotland.
Eva has also been sparring with current Scottish champions and, after an intense six weeks she received the great news that’s she’s been picked to represent her country once again at the highest level.
She'll go in to the competition with confidence as, in April, she defeated the fighter ranked number two in England.
The teenager travelled to Middlesbrough for the bout - after just five days of preparation - and took what her coaches described as a "big scalp".
This year Eva has also won the Eastern District title and brought home a silver medal from the Golden Gloves Championships.
There was success for one of her clubmates on Saturday with Richard McDonald topping the bill and winning, on a split decision, in Lochee.
And on Sunday Brandon McCormack was last up at Port Glasgow, putting on a great display of boxing to win the contest and pick up the Boxer of the Day award.
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