YATE Amateur Boxing Club has been running for four seasons and is now really starting to reap the rewards for all the hard work and effort by the coaches and boxers.

Last season, Ben Jones won the Western Counties Schoolboy ABA Championship, and this season the club has really taken off.

Will Shipp and Max Boulton were both entered into the National Championships, both winning their Counties contest, with Will stopping two lads on his way.

Unfortunately Max was on the wrong end of a very tight points decision in the quarter finals, but Will was to go even further and won the national title.

And earlier this month, the club entered Shipp, Stephen Gilheany, Ned Cash and Alfie Boulton into the Bristol Box Cup.

Unfortunately Stephen lost in the final for silver, but Will and Ned went on to win golds, and Alfie, determined not to be outdone by his brother Max, who was last year's Box Cup champion, unanimously out pointed his opponent who had travelled all the way from Chester.

The Bristol Box Cup had entries from all over England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

And the lads are not the only ones doing well from theYate club.

Youngsters Gussie Cash (10), Jimmy Gilheaney and Billy Cash (both11) are all looking good for the future.

Michael Chinnery is back in training after being out for most of the season with a fractured wrist.

Tom Brunn, John McDonagh and Josh Field are also doing well.

Isaac Boulton, who has only been training with Yate for six months, has shown so much talent that the club put him into competition long before he could have been expected to be.

It paid off as he won his first two contests at a canter.

Yate only have a few seniors at the moment but they hope to have them ready for contests in October. One of them is Sam May, a local lad who has won all three of his contests and has just returned after an illness.

Carl Combrinck is another senior who is improving steady for the club.

Yate have a fairly full membership but will have a few spaces next season for lads.

The Yate Boxing Club coaches are Ken Lee, Jesse Winter Tuck, Patrick Smyth and Ross Trivett.