Monday NAC update

On Monday we had a Women’s Epee Team consisting of Erica Julien, Christi Golder, and Nicole Milewski compete at the NAC.  They cam in as the number 9 seed and therefore fenced the 8th seed, a team of women from South Carolina.  To be honest everyone was only fencing so-so in the beginning.  You fence nine encounters with each one climbing 5 points higher as the target, so the last one should end at 45.  At the end of the 8th encounter the score was 40-24 in favor of the South Carolinians.  Nicole was our anchor and two minutes and ten seconds later the score was Cape Fear 45 South Carolina 44.  She outscored her opponent 21-4, including the last 8 straight.

That got them the Number 1 seed, a trio of women from Northwestern University.  All three of the women are currently in the top 60 in the country.  Our women started slowly, so after the first two rounds (6 encounters) the score was 30 – 8.  They then decided there was no reason to hold back and lost the last round by a score of 13-15 so the final was 45-21.  Erica went 5-5 with her opponent (she actually got to 5 first, so if it was a pool bout she would have won).  Christi went 3-5 and Nicole finished out with another 5-5 score.  Northwestern went on to win the event and en route to that defeated the Temple University team 45-27, so absolutely nothing to complain about for how our team did.

Will Golder fenced the Div 1 Men’s “consolation” event.  It took him a while to convert his thinking from foil to epee, but his last three bouts were all very solid.  He won 1, but didn’t make the DEs.

I do want to comment on the really excellent support that all of our fencers gave each other throughout the entire weekend.

Also, I didn’t say specifically in the weekly email, so there IS practice Tuesday and Thursday night.  The UNCW club won’t get back to Wednesday night for a couple of weeks, but if anyone wants to come in I will be there.  Just let me know so I can get the word out.  Also, Kim may be in on Thursday night if anyone is looking for some sabre practice.  Plus there will be homeschool and afterschool for the rest of the week.

pax vobiscum,