Eccles and Brookes one step from Commonwealth Games medal
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Defending champion Rosie Eccles and Niamh Brookes are one win away from a Commonwealth Games' medal following Wednesday's draw.
Light-middleweight Eccles, who will be the Team Wales flag bearer at the opening ceremony, and flyweight Brookes will enter the competition at the quarter-final stage next week with the pair in action on Wednesday in Glasgow.
Anybody who reaches the semi-final is guaranteed a medal.
Light-heavyweight Daniel Pitt is the first Welsh boxer in action on Saturday evening in the last 32 of the 80kg section when he faces Dee Ioapo of Samoa.
Connor Williams, Helen Jones, Orlando Holley-Sotomi and Owain Harris-Allan have been drawn in the last 16 stage.
Bantamweight Jones faces Kadijat Ajishola in the women's 54kg section on the morning of Sunday 26 July, while heavyweight Williams will take on Namibia's Petrus Jacobus Kotze in the evening at 21:15 BST.
Lightweight Harris-Allan, who won Commonwealth Games bronze in Birmingham, starts his campaign against Niven Chemben for Mauritius in the men's 60kg category on the morning of Monday, 27 July.
An hour later, light-middleweight Holley-Sotomi faces England's Paddy Hewitt in the men's 70kg category.
