The Babes of Boxing, they kiddingly call themselves. They are three women in positions of authority with the Allegheny Mountain Association, USA Boxing Chapter No. 11 of Greater Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania Golden Gloves Championships.

"My first thought was, 'Three women running boxing? The manly sport of boxing?' " said Craig Wolfley, a trainer and the co-operator (with his wife) of the Martial Arts & Sports Complex where the area finals will be tonight and tomorrow night.

He was joking, of course. Because now that his wife, Faith, serves as the president of the AMA chapter and oversees these Golden Gloves, the joke is on him. "I have all the boxers ask me, 'If she's Madame President, what are you, the First Lady of Local Boxing?' "

Faith Wolfley is the boss, being the association president and the chairperson for this local competition. Gloria Sztukowski is the registrar and head of officiating, and she along with Western Pennsylvania Police Athletic League executive director Jimmy Cvetic will run the state Golden Gloves competition April 24 at Heinz Field's Coca-Cola Great Hall.

Trisha Kessler is the treasurer, no small duty given this two-week, four-night, elimination tournament that encompasses 163 competitors and hundreds of spectators.

"Jimmy and Gloria, they own the local franchise," Faith Wolfley said of the folks who, in addition to past local plus present and future state Golden Gloves championships, also organize pro-am cards, run two eateries and operate a half-dozen boxing gyms in the region.

"But they also have five bazillion other things to do, so I said, 'Let me do it.' The state finals, they really have to focus on that. To do both that and this, it's too much."

Not that the Western Pennsylvania Golden Gloves was a breeze to organize.

For one thing, it required plenty of free minutes on Faith Wolfley's cell phone, which rang three times during a half-hour interview earlier this week. "Are you kidding me?" her husband marveled, considering it a slow time for her calls.

In addition to piecing together the four fight nights, the 46 matches and the dressing rooms in the American Legion Hall next door to their Bridgeville gym, Faith Wolfley also found time to arrange the 500-plus chairs for spectators in the gym, shop at a warehouse club for the snacks (son Kyle, 17, will sell them), run the gym and raise their four children.

Since January, she and Kessler have become officeholders and reshaped the local boxing chapter in what Faith Wolfley describes as a "general reorganization."

They joined Sztukowski -- one of the most experienced amateur-boxing officials in the country -- to form this female triumvirate just in time to assume control of the Western Pennsylvania Golden Gloves.

"They're nice women, they're smart, they're fun to work with," Sztukowski said. "Change is good, too. There are a lot of good things happening."

The lineup of boxers for tomorrow and Saturday nights carries some punch and some familiar names.

Colin Webster, eldest son of late Steelers center Mike Webster, is scheduled to compete for the sub-novice championship (three amateur fights or fewer) in the 201-plus-pound category tomorrow against Greg Hamilton.

Webster, a Marine who returned from Iraq duty last fall, just picked up the sweet science at the Wolfleys' gym the past few months.

"We were a little worried that he wasn't quite ready yet," Faith Wolfley said of Webster, 24, of Moon, who won his semifinal match last week over Eric Smith.

"But he's a very determined kid. Craig said, 'He's just like his dad -- you punch him, and he doesn't back down. And he has a big head.' "

Her husband the trainer also was entrusted with the eldest child of his friend and Steelers-radio colleague. Tunch Ilkin's son Tanner, 18, of Upper St. Clair, is scheduled to fight in the sub-novice 178-pound class final Saturday against Joe Johnson.

Also on Saturday's card are defending Western Pennsylvania Golden Gloves champions Britan Hallinan of Altoona (201-plus pounds), Rocco Tettis of Ridgway (178), Dustin Mihalick of South Park (165), Mark Daley of Carrick (152) and Mike Strauss of Mt. Lebanon (141) -- all fighting in the open class for boxers with 10 or more bouts of amateur experience.

The open-division winners will advance to the state finals in three weeks.

The cards start at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday.

Tickets cost $25, $20 and $15 and are available at the door.