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Princeton Fencing Gets Three Wins in Season-Opening Team Duals
December 04, 2006 | Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Princeton fencing teams began their dual-meet season Saturday at NYU after a month-long layoff from competition following the Garret Open, an individual event, at Penn State the first weekend of November.
Princeton had strong support in New York City as dozens of fencing alumni and family came to cheer on the first dual meet of the season and of Zoltan Dudas' tenure as head coach.
The Tiger men went 1-3 against NYU, Rutgers, Penn State and North Carolina, knocking off the Tar Heels 20-7 but falling to the other three.
NYU defeated Princeton 14-13 with freshman Edward Hurme, an epeeist, and senior Alejandro Bras, a foilist, both going 3-0 against the Violets. Princeton won the epee 7-2 and the foil 5-4, but lost the sabre, 8-1, to tip the match.
Against Rutgers, no Tiger emerged undefeated as the Scarlet Knights won the match, 18-9. Princeton fell 5-4,in the epee, 7-2 in the foil and 6-3 in the sabre.
The story was similar against Penn State, which defeated Princeton, 19-8. The Tigers fell in the epee, 7-2, the foil, 5-4, and the sabre, 7-2.
Princeton won handily over UNC, 20-7. Freshman sabre Thomas Abend, senior foilist John-Paul Mitchell and sophomore epeeist Noah Arjomand all went 3-0. Princeton won the epee, 8-1, the foil, 7-2, and the foil, 5-4.
Of the nine regular bouters on the men's side, five were freshmen and two more were sophomores as Bras and Mitchell were the only upperclassmen.
On the women's side, Princeton split its four matches, defeating NYU and Rutgers but losing to North Carolina and Penn State.
A handful of Tigers went undefeated against the Violets, including epeeists senior Erin McGarry (3-0), sophomore Jasjit Bhinder (2-0), foilists senior Sara Jew-Lim (2-0), freshman Jocelyn Svengsouk (3-0), junior Allison Wuertz (3-0) and freshman Ann Gong (1-0). Princeton won the epee, 5-4, the foil, 8-1, and the sabre, 7-2 to take the match, 20-7.
Princeton also defeated Rutgers by the same 20-7 score. Jew-Lim, Svengsouk and freshman Karen Petsche swept the foil, 9-0, as sophomores Jessica Fields and Cara DiGirolamo swept their bouts in the sabre, which Princeton won 7-2. Rutgers got by Princeton in the epee, 5-4.
UNC snuck by with a 14-13 win over the Tigers as Jew Lim and Petsche went 2-0 but no other Tiger was able to go undefeated. Princeton's weapon wins in the epee and foil, both by 6-3 scores, were overcome by an 8-1 loss in the sabre as UNC narrowly won the match.
Penn State showed its might in a 22-5 win. The Nittany Lions took the sabre, 8-1, and the epee, 7-2, overcoming Princeton's 6-3 foil win to take the match.
Just as on the men's side, the Princeton women fielded a young squad, featuring just two seniors in Jew-Lim and McGarry among the nine regular bouters.
The Tigers will have an even longer layoff before their next competition, when it travels to Penn, Feb. 11, to fence half of the Ivy League bouts as the two-weekend Ivy round-robin returns to decide the league title.