Boxing: Taylor hopes to mend for Turkey bouts

LOCHEND lightweight Josh Taylor lost by 13-10 points to a German opponent while boxing for a Great Britain squad in Berlin, sustaining a cut eye requiring five stitches.

However, the 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist should be fit for a return to action in the European championships in Ankara, Turkey next month.

Meanwhile, fellow Lochend boxer, light-flyweight Tommy McCallum, outpointed Dunfermline's Scott Thomson on the latter's hometown Carnegie Conference Centre show.

On the same bill Sparta bantamweight Kieran Dignam beat Aberdeen Granite City's Nigel Adams on points, his clubmate, middleweight Craig Jack, lost to Dunfermline's Steven Beattie and Craigmillar light-flyweight Brendan Hunter defeated the host club's Craig Aitchison.