THE number 13 proved doubly unlucky for unbeaten boxer Glen Gray when he met Kent's Sam Osmond on Saturday.

In his 13th contest, on the 13th of the month, Gray was out-pointed in the semi-finals of the National Schoolboys Championships at Dagenham.

Osmond, 14, of Broadstairs, a member of Canterbury Boxing Club, who won the national title in the category below last year, now fights for his second successive title, at Under-57k level, at the same venue on the weekend of March 27-28.

Gray, of East London’s Peacock club, came forward from the start, but was out-punched in the first round.

The second round was the Londoner’s best, but even then Osmond caught him with some solid hooks.

By the final round Osmond was in full flow and left his opponent tired and frustrated.

Osmond will be joined in the national finals by Aylesham’s Carl Moses, whose opponent pulled out of their semi-final.

Meanwhile, Osmond's Canterbury club-mate Tyler Cosier won his bout at a show at Langley Park, South East London, on Friday.

His opponent Kieron Gorny, of Croydon, was disqualified in the final round after three public warnings for holding.

Gorny thought of nothing but survival after being caught by a perfect right cross at the end of the first round.

The same night at the Ramada Hotel, Hollingbourne, Canterbury’s Peter Jaywadena lost a points decision to Jermaine Morgan, of Basildon, in a hard-punching, spirited bout.

* Osmond and Cosier will be among the fighters at Canterbury’s own show at the University of Kent on April 16.

Former World Boxing Union middleweight champion Ruben Groenewald, of South Africa, will present the trophies.