Another gender barrier in sports has fallen.

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For the first time in the history of amateur boxing in the United States, women were allowed to fight Saturday night. Sixteen-year-old Dallas Malloy, 144, proved too strong and too aggressive for Heather Poyner, 143.A sellout crowd of 1,189 at Edmonds Community College was treated to six exciting minutes - three 2-minute rounds.

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