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Valdivia is one win away from a National PAL title belt.
Region 11 sent three boxers to Saturday's finals at the National PAL in Toledo, Ohio.
In a 123-pound Open semifinal, Gary Salazar defeated New York's D'Andres Hockerson, 36-21. The Fresno native meets Florida's Dennis Galarza for the bantamweight title belt.
Joining him will be Open 165-pounder Daniel Valdivia, who outpointed Georgia's Carlos Monroe via tiebreaker following an 18-18 tie. The Bakersfield product takes on New York's Peter Reyes for middleweight top honors.
119-pound Efren Lopez has already advanced to the Junior Olympic division final against Ohio's Duke Ragan.
Ryan Maquiñana was the boxing producer for NBCOlympics.com during London 2012 and writes a weekly column for CSNBayArea.com. He is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the Ratings Panel for Ring Magazine. E-mail him at rmaquinana@gmail.com, check out his blog at Norcalboxing.net, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.
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