Undefeated Denver boxer Mike Alvarado (30-0, 22 knockouts), who earned an easy TKO of Ghana’s Ray Narh earlier this month in Las Vegas, will return to the ring sooner than he expected. The junior welterweight is scheduled for a July 30 fight in Denver to be televised nationally on FSN, promoter Top Rank announced Friday. His opponent has not been named.
“We were a little bit disappointed in Ray Narh’s performance, and we don’t want to wait until the fall for Mike to fight,” Top Rank representative Carl Moretti told ESPN, “so we are going to go do a fight for him in his hometown.”
“Mike is a guy who can make some noise at 140, and 140 is a very good division with some big names and big fights. So why not keep him active and keep building him and look for a bigger fight in the fourth quarter?”
CU and AFA runners win steeplechases.
The University of Colorado will send two runners to the 3,000-meter steeplechases at the NCAA Track and Field Championships and Air Force one after Emma Coburn, Shalaya Kipp and Justin Tyner won their races at the NCAA West preliminary round in Eugene, Ore.
Coburn won her race in 9 minutes, 55.03 seconds, and Kipp captured hers with a time of 10:00.03. Tyner crossed the tape with a time of 8:44.86 in just his second steeplechase this season.
The Buffs’ Joe Morris did not advance with a 19th-place finish in the 100 meters but came back two hours later to advance to today’s quarterfinals of the 200 with the 12th-fastest time of the round. Colorado State’s Trevor Brown advanced to the quarterfinals of the 110-meter hurdles.
Black Hills State to join RMAC.
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Presidents Council voted to add Black Hills State University to the conference in 2012-13. The Yellow Jackets, from Spearfish, S.D., will be the 14th member of the league beginning in 2012 with the departure of Nebraska-Kearney to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
