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94 THE QUEENS COURIER • NOVEMBER 16, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
Francis Lewis High School completes
undefeated season with championship win
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
agiudice@qns.com
@A_GiudiceReport
In a rematch of the 2016-17 Public
School Athletic League (PSAL) Class
A girls soccer championship game,
the Francis Lewis High School Patriots
avenged their defeat from last year, beating
An impressive night of boxing is coming to Resorts World
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
agiudice@qns.com
@A_GiudiceReport
Four-time heavyweight boxing champion
Evander Holyfi eld and Real Deal
Sports are parting with Resorts World
Casino New York City to bring another
stacked boxing card to Jamaica on
Saturday, Nov. 18.
Th e card will feature the best boxing
prospects the Tri-State area has to
off er, and for the fi rst time ever on a card
at Resorts World, Real Deal Sports will
showcase two of the top female boxers
in Alicia “Th e Empress” Napoleon and
Hungary’s Nikolett Papp.
Headlining an eight-round junior lightweight
fi ght, local fan favorite Bryant ‘Pee
Wee’ Cruz (17-2, 8 KO’s), of Port Chester,
N.Y., takes on Angel “El Gato” Luna (11-
3-1, 6 KO’s) of the Dominican Republic.
Co-featured on the card are undefeated
Duke “Th e Baby Faced Terminator”
Micah, of Accra, Ghana, who will be making
his highly anticipated American debut
in a battle against Jose “EL Torito” Santos
Gonzalez, of Guadalajara, Mexico in a
10-round bantamweight bout.
Th e undercard also features fast-rising
20-year-old super middleweight prospect
Edgar Berlanga of New York City;
Enrique Gallegos of Medford, Oregon;
and native New Yorkers Cesar “Th e
Rainman” Francis and Maxito Saivil.
Rounding out the card in separate bouts
will be top junior middleweight prospect
Justin “Th e Brooklyn Torch” Biggs; welterweight
contender Fredrick “General
Okunka” Lawson of Chicago, IL; heavyweight
Iegor Plevako of Kharkov,
Ukraine; and pro-debuting welterweight
Poindexter Knight Jr.
Doors on the night of the event will
open at 6 p.m. with the fi rst bell at 7 p.m.
at Resorts World Casino New York City’s
Central Park Space, located at 110-00
Rockaway Blvd.
Tickets can be purchased online at
RWNewYork.com.
Beacon to capture the championship
on Saturday, Nov. 11, at St. John’s
University.
Th e Patriots completed their quest for
an undefeated season (17-0) with the
championship win, defeating Beacon 4-2
on penalty kicks.
Aft er the game was tied 1-1, two
10-minute overtime periods couldn’t produce
a winner, so the teams went to penalty
kicks, when, up 3-2, April Cabral
iced the game for Francis Lewis and netted
the fi nal goal, securing the win for the
Patriots.
Photo courtesy of Angela Cardenas
The Francis Lewis Patriots won the PSAL Class A girls soccer championship.
Photo by Ellison Bronze Photography
Photo caption: Resorts World will host a night of boxing on Saturday, Nov. 18.