On Monday Brendan McConville fenced the Div II Men’s epee. He went 3-3 in a pool where the top 5 fencers all finished with 3 wins or better, but no one fencer was undefeated. That earned him a bye in the first round of DEs. He then faced another foil fencer, so it was an epee DE that looked like a foil DE with big foils. Unfortunately, the other fencer was an A foilist. Brendan finished up 49th.
For the few of you not hooked into the club on facebook, we have a National silver medalist. This is the best that anyone in the club has ever done. In the Vet 70 Women’s epee, Erica Julien went 4-2 in her pool. That made her seeded third for the DEs. In her first DE she defeated one of the two women who had beaten her in the pool. In her second DE she defeated the the number two seed. She lost her final match, which was against Patricia Bedrosian, who A) has about 50 more years of fencing experience than Erica, and B) just finished 2nd in the Veteran World Championships in October. If she can achieve similar solid finishes in the other NAC and the National Championships, this puts Erica in line for a place on the US veteran’s team that would compete in Germany next October.
pax vobiscum,
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
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