Jerry is a pacemaker in England Schoolboys

Jerry Mongan ensured Priory Park Boxing Club will have a presence in this weekend's England Schoolboys national quarter-finals.

Mongan progressed and now moves onto to compete at the Rainton Meadows Arena in Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, on Sunday afternoon.

He produced arguably his best-ever performance to defeat Millenium's Murtaza Nadeem by unanimous points decision in Sunday's pre-quarter-final.

They clashed at 54kg in Class B, for fighters born in 2000, with the championship bout taking place at the Bromford Firs Community Centre in Birmingham.

Mongan controlled the bout from start to finish, sticking to skill rather than mixing it up as Nadeem tried to brawl, with little success as he was eliminated.

But Pleck's Luke Morris and Wolverhampton's Ryan Badial bowed out of the competition, both beaten unanimously as their dreams of a national title ended.

A flu-ridden Morris was off the pace against Darlington's Frankie Thomas at 35.5kg in Class A, for boxers born in 2001, as both boxed from the orthodox stance.

Morris struggled to get his shots off and couldn't catch his breath against a tricky opponent, the Pleck prospect opting not to switch hit as he searched for answers.

Badial faced the tall and rangy Ryan Ridley, from Forest Hall in Newcastle, at 48kg in Class B and couldn't climb over the reach of his adversary until the bout was lost.

Wodensborough's Aiden Foster went through with boxing through a bye at 46kg in Class A, now heading up north to take on Douglas Pattison, from Hunslet in Leeds.

In the 'minors,' for children born in 2002, Walsall Wood's Jamie Breeze also 'walked over' and will do so again this weekend, through no Yorkshire-East Midlands entrant.