TEAM Leigh light flyweight boxer Josh Waterworth qualified for the national junior quarter-finals with a points victory over Hakeem Azer in Birmingham on Saturday.

Waterworth's extra class and cleaner shots told against the local opponent from O'Dells Boxing Club, setting up a last eight clash with the Merseyside champion in the national quarter-finals in Croxteth next Sunday.

Matty Burgess's tilt at the national youth middleweight title ended with defeat in the final in Durham last Friday.

The Team Leigh boxer pushed two-time national champion and England international Lewis Richardson all the way, before losing out to the talented London southpaw.

Elsewhere, Team Leigh's younger boxers enjoyed a mixed weekend of results.

Patrick Price, aged 11, and Paddy Hewitt, aged 12, scored dominant points victories in a Phoenix Fire show in Warrington on Friday, but Harry Winnard, aged 14, lost to a split decision, as did 15-year-old flyweight Joe Shinton at a Clayton show in Burnley last Thursday.

Ben Follows and Connor Winstanley, both aged 11, boxed well in skills bouts at the Fit2XL show in Blackburn on Saturday.