RESULTS
A huge number of our fencers were in the last Pisacafe event of the season and the Homeschool State Championships. For some of them this was their first tournament or their first non in house event.
The day started off well as the Southeastern Cardinals team of Patrick Gadow, Thomas Knosky, Joel Ertzberger, and Will Huff won the State Homeschool Team Championship. This is the first time the Cardinals have won the State Team Championship and it truly was a team effort as a number of other Cardinals have fenced on the team over the course of the season. They defeated both the Dead Squirrels (45-30) and Musketeers (45-15).
In the Pisacafe Elementary event all of our fencers won at least one bout. Oliver Hughes was 0-3 in his pool and Ana Gadow was 1-2 in hers. They tangled in their DE and Oliver came out on top. Oliver then lost to eventual winner, Olivia McKinney from All-American in his next DE. Ana finished 9th and Oliver 8th. Jeremiah Yandle was 1-3 in the pool and got a bye, but ran into Waylon Shepherd who was 3-0 in his pool, with Waylon winning. Jeremiah finished 7th. Emma Yandle was 1-2 in her pool and got a bye only to have to fence Graham Betz, who was 2-1 in his pool. Graham won, so Emma finishes 6th. Benjamin Knosky went 2-2 in his pool, and received a bye, but lost to Lucas Hein of All-American in his DE so finished 5th. Olivia beat Lucas, and Waylon beat Graham in a close match, before losing to Olivia in the final. Thus, it was Olivia for the gold, Waylon for the silver, and Graham and Lucas for the bronzes.
During the Middle School Pisacafe tournament, similar things happened. Jocelynn Hughes, in her first fencing event, went 0-3 and met Morgan Madden 3-0 in her DE. She finished 7th. Levi Knosky was 1-2 in his pool and lost to Julian Telles of All-American to finish 6th. Morgan lost a close bout to Gideon Hartman of All-American to earn a bronze. Caleb Yandle was 3-0 in his pool and won all three of his DEs to win the gold, with Gideon earning the silver and Julian the other bronze.
The Cardinals had 12 of the 15 fencers in the Homeschool individual Championships, so there was a lot of beating on each other. Jocelynn finished 15th, Patton Ellis was 14th, Anna Knosky met Aidan Yandle in her DE and finished 13th, Levi lost a close bout to Caleb (3-1) to finish 12th, and Morgan lost to Thomas (3-1) to finish 11th. Will was 2-2 in his pool while Charlotte Yandle was 1-3, but in their DE Charlotte pulled a mild upset. Will finished 9th and Charlotte lost her next DE to the eventual winner to come in 8th. Caleb lost to Aidan to finish 7th. Joel pulled a clean 4-0 round (all the victories were 5-0) got a bye but lost a close DE to Patrick (2-2) to finish 5th. In the semis Patrick beat Aidan, and Thomas lost a close bout to Zion Facey of All-American. In the finals, Patrick lost an agonizingly close bout to Zion.
For the epee, it was all Cardinals. In the pool it was Everleigh Sutcliffe 2-0, Jules Kelley 1-1 and Rhett Kelley 0-2. In the DEs, Rhett got a 1 point revenge victory against his sister, but Everleigh held onto her number 1 position. Therefore, it was Everleigh gold, Rhett silver and Jules bronze.
Thanks to Valeria Gerasimova who ran the event, Isaac Canady, Lily Kube, Gerhard and Isabelle Guevarra for reffing and Herman Smith for armoring, as well as everyone who helped with the tear down and clean up.
At the NCAA Mid-Atlantic South Regional, Nicole Milewski had an excellent 5-1 first round. Because of the weird way that they organize the regional, she then got the number 1 and 2 seeds from the first round, plus the former world junior champion in her pool in the second round. She went 1-4 in the pool and came out 22nd of 51 for the event.
CLUB STATUS
Standard week of classes this week. New afterschool and homeschool classes start next week.
IRON MAIDEN
Today is the last day to get entered for the Iron Maiden at the regular fee. The foil is a 17 person possible D, the epee is a 16 person possible C (but could use some higher ranked fencers), and the saber is 6 person E.
SUMMER CAMPS
Finally have a schedule for the summer camps and we will be going with something a bit different this year. Three levels of foil camps: the standard beginner camp, an intermediate camp, and a more advanced camp. The intermediate camp will be for those fencers who are definitely not beginners but are just starting to do tournaments. The advanced camp is for those who have a fair amount of tournament experience, hopefully including some Regional and/or National events. The hope is that we can address some issues differently and that nobody is having to fence people at an entirely different level all week.
July 14-18 Epee Camp all levels
July 21-25 Advanced Foil Camp
July 28- August 1 Intermediate Foil Camp
August 4-8 Beginner Camp
pax vobiscum,
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association