INDIANA, Pa. -- Wait until the guys from the city of Brotherly Love get a load of these brothers.

The Lubash Brothers, as in Lou-Bash Brothers, each earned a Western Pennsylvania Golden Gloves championship and a date in the April 8 state finals, a competition where in years past the Philadelphia fighters flexed their considerable punching muscle and their deep ring experience.

Jesse Lubash has been fighting for four years and his older brother Jimmy for scarcely eight months, but these Mt. Lebanon boxers both won the right to represent the West against the East in two weeks inside Heinz Field's West Club. Jesse, 20, cinched his 152-pound Open division championship earlier, but put on the fight of last night inside IUP Memorial Field House in a non-tournament tussle with Ohio amateur champion Delvaughn Williams of Cleveland. Jimmy, 22, who has been deaf since bacterial meningitis took most of his hearing at age 3, closed out the Western Pennsylvania Golden Gloves championship bouts last night with a decision over KP Peth of Butler at the 178-pound Open division.

That means the older Lubash is one victory away from earning a berth to the National Golden Gloves finals, despite first stepping into a ring in May 2005.

"I wish I would have started boxing when I was 10 years old," Jimmy Lubash said, after lip-reading his questioner. Oh, and, in time, he wants to turn pro.

Two other fighters earned a trip to Heinz Field and the state finals, where they'll join the Lubashes in the Open, highest amateur level. In the super-heavyweight division, Andre Taylor of Johnstown's Flood City gym was declared the winner by walkover over an absent Jaleel Ahmed. And Eric Harris of McKeesport and 3rd Avenue Gym outscored bitter foe Johnail Farley on judges' punch counts to win at 165 pounds.

"We're rivals," an excited Harris, a veteran of 30-plus fights, said. "He's in my shadow now. I beat him three times, but I didn't get the decision on one."

Asked about facing the vexing Philadelphia fighters in the state competition, Harris said of his Farley conquest, "I'm fighting a boy with 80 fights, so I'm not worried about anything."

They join a team that includes five other Western Pennsylvania champs.

Rod Sulka advanced with a Thursday victory at 132 pounds over Altoona's John Stout in a card at Saddle Ridge in Station Square. Also previously getting their tickets, if not their helmeted heads, punched for the state championships were: Charlie Lehner of Greenfield and 3rd Avenue, 125; former champion Luke Ciavetti of Crafton and 3rd Avenue, 141; and Kyle Krianakbar of Johnstown's Flood City, super-heavyweight.

In Golden Gloves titles waged last night in the less-experienced, three-round divisions, the winners were: Rob Collasante of South Park, Sub-Novice 132; Louis Batista of Erie's Lower East Side, Intermediate 138; Tom Gillece of South Park, Sub-Novice super-heavyweight; Giovanni Cavalier of Steel City, Sub-Novice 165; Mike Shreckengost of West Allegheny, Sub-Novice 152 (in a contest stopped by the referee 51 seconds into the second round); and Aaron Strader of Weightmasters, Sub-Novice super-heavyweight (in a contest stopped 21 seconds into the second).