The Oregon State Silver Gloves boxing tournament is scheduled for this Saturday at Bend's Midtown Ballroom, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and tickets are $10 at the door.
The tournament will include fighters age 15 and younger from throughout Oregon, featuring five from Bend's Deschutes County Rocks Boxing Club.
If necessary to accommodate weight divisions with more entries, bouts will also be staged on Sunday starting at noon.
The Oregon State Silver Gloves is a qualifier for the Northwest Silver Gloves Regionals, scheduled for Jan. 4-6 in Hillsboro. The regionals will include boxers from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
Central Oregon is also slated to host the Oregon State Golden Gloves tournament (for ages 16 and older) at the Bend Armory, Jan. 25-26.
For more information, call Deschutes County Rocks coach Richard Miller at 541-678-2286.
—Bulletin staff report
