Canadian boxer Scarlett Delgado to fight for gold at Commonwealth Games

Canadian boxer Scarlett Delgado guaranteed herself a medal by winning her women’s 54kg semifinal on Friday at the Commonwealth Games.

Delgado, of Brampton, Ont., defeated England’s Lauren Mackie 4-1 to advance to the gold-medal match on Saturday (6 a.m. ET, CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca) against India’s Preeti Pawar.

Edmonton boxer Joshua Ofori will bring home a bronze medal after losing his men’s 80kg semifinal 5-0 to Ankush Yadav of India.

Track and field action continued at Scotstoun Stadium on Friday where Canadian Damian Warner brought a slim lead into Day 2 of the decathlon.

The London, Ont., native was fastest among all competitors in the first event of the day, the 110m hurdles. Warner’s finish in 14.04 seconds earned him 969 points, however India’s Tesaswin Shankar entered the day just 39 points behind the Canadian and finished the hurdles in 14.41.

Warner’s ninth-overall finish in the discus, combined with Shankar’s sixth-place performance saw the Canadian’s lead dwindle to just three points with three events remaining: the pole vault, the javelin, and the 1,500m.

More Canadian results on Friday

• Nandini Sharma qualified for the women’s 400m T54 final. Sharma, who finished her heat in a season’s best 59.20 seconds, was disqualified for obstruction in the women’s 1,500m T54 event earlier this week.
• Izzy Goudros posted a mark of 6.50m in qualifying to advance to the women’s long jump final. Fellow Canadian Sienna MacDonald (6.14m) did not advance.
• Canadian judoka Heidi Quach and Julien Frascadore won elimination matches on Friday. Quatch beat Botswana’s Botho Babutsi in a women’s -48kg quarterfinal while Frascadore advanced over Togo’s Mederic Lawson in their men’s -66 kg round of 16 match.
• In track cycling, Sarah Orban finished her women’s sprint qualification round in 11.073 seconds and did not advance.