TONY Jeffries was left red faced after Scotland's Kenneth Anderson put an end to his Commonwealth Games boxing dream at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

The 21-year-old Sunderland hopeful lost 17-12 in his light-heavyweight quarter-final, but refused to accept Edinburgh's Anderson had deserved the victory - despite the 7-1 score in the final round.

Jeffries had led throughout the fight and at one point in the third had an 11-6 advantage - but his hard work was undone during a messy final two minutes as Anderson raided in on the leg-weary Wearsider.

And despite the vociferous crowd, that included a small band of Sunderland fans, Jeffries was unable to match the Scot and had no answer as body shots and jabs continued to register against him.

But that didn't stop Jeffries aiming a string of post-fight verbal jabs at the Scot, who is now guaranteed a bronze medal as a minimum.

"I'm devastated. He wasn't in my league," he said.

"My tactics were to land the jab but it didn't come off, it was doing my head in. He's rubbish, it wasn't a good fight.

"There are better boxers than him in England, he's rubbish. I can't believe it. I've lost points in the British rankings to him.

"There was nothing I could do. I felt brilliant coming into the ring. I was confident but not overly confident."

The Sunderland Amateur Boxing Club national light-heavyweight champion dominated the first round and a half, registering with a string of stiff jabs while his opponent went in search of the big right hand.

But the Scot began to find his range as Jeffries left his chin open with his continual reluctance to raise his left arm.

Jeffries errors began to grow as he left himself wide open with a lack of movement allowing Anderson to get inside and register the shots that clinched glory.

The distraught Jeffries added: "My coach was telling me to move my feet but he kept getting under my arm all the time.

"I've lost hope, I feel like walking away."

His exit comes as a big disappointment following explosive displays in the last two rounds of the competition - following up his 96-second demolition of Samoa's Steve Wulf with a second round stoppage against South African Tshepang Mohale.

Elsewhere, Chris Tomlinson qualified for the long jump final despite a below par top jump of 7.67.

The Middlesborough athlete qualified in tenth position but was expected to challenge for a spot on the podium with his personal best - set four years ago in the build up to the Manchester Games, a whopping 8.27.

But with the top two qualifiers Botswana's Gable Garenamotse, a silver medallist in Manchester, jumping 8.15 metres and South African Yaw Fosu-Amoah jumping 7.95m, Tomlinson will be well aware he needs to recapture his best if he's to snatch a medal.

And the 23-year-old will be desperate for glory having missed out in Manchester when he fluffed his lines to come sixth.

However, even Tomlinson's biggest doubters know he has the big jump in his locker as two years ago at the Athens Olympics he leapt a massive 8.25 to finish fifth.

In the pool Newcastle's double gold winner Chris Cook added silver to his 50 and 100m-breastroke gold as part of the England team in the 4 by 100m medley relay.

Cook along with team mates Liam Tancock, Ross Davenport and Matt Bowe pushed Australia all the way, forcing the host nation to set a new games record time of 3.34.37 to take the gold