Denver’s Louie Byrd lost to Eros Correa of San Jose, Calif., in a semifinal bout Wednesday at the U.S. Olympic boxing team trials in Mobile, Ala.
Fighting in the 108-pound division, Byrd and Correa were tied 25-25 after three rounds. Correa earned a 132-131 victory by way of total punches landed.
Byrd, 20, a two-time national champion and four- time winner of the national Golden Gloves, easily beat Maryland’s Gregory Outlaw in the second round Monday. But Byrd now moves to the challengers bracket, where he will fight Nevada’s Santos Vasquez today for a berth in the finals against Correa.
Two-time Olympian Rau’shee Warren of Cincinnati beat Chicago’s Shawn Simpson 34-20 at 114 pounds Wednesday. Andrew Shephard, a heavyweight from Fort Carson, had a semifinal bout Wednesday night against Kansas fighter Lenroy Thompson.
Fort Carson’s Samuel Vasquez (152) won his challengers bracket bout and advanced to the semifinals today. Fort Carson’s Jeffrey Spencer (178) lost his challengers bout to Siju Shabazz of Las Cruces, N.M.
CU-Wichita State matchup set.
The University of Colorado and defending NIT champion Wichita State will meet in the first round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off men’s basketball tournament Nov. 17 in San Juan.
Alabama, Iona, Maryland, Purdue, Temple and Western Michigan also will play in the three-day, bracket-style event, which ESPNU and ESPN2 will televise.
CSU picks up speed at wideout.
Colorado State signed wide receiver Derek Serowski, but he won’t play for the Rams this season.
The 6-foot-4, 187-pounder from Moore, Okla., will have three years of eligibility beginning in 2012.
Serowski, who has 4.4-second speed in the 40-yard dash, originally signed with the Central Oklahoma football team in February 2010. But that spring, after winning four events at the Oklahoma state high school track and field championships, including the 100 and 200 meters, he drew interest from football teams at Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Arkansas.
He is ineligible this season because Central Okla- homa refused to grant his release.
