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Men's Fencing Wins Both Matches on First Day of Ivy League Championship
February 05, 2006 | Men's Fencing
Feb. 5, 2006
ITHACA, N.Y. - The Princeton men's fencing team won both of its matches on Sunday on Cornell's campus to finish as one of two remaining undefeated teams in the Ivy League Championship. The championship will be determined this year in a two-part round-robin format with the second day taking place next Sunday at Columbia.
Princeton upended Brown 18-9 in its opening match Sunday. Winning 8 of 9 matches in both the epee and foil let the Tigers to victory and were able to compensate for losing the saber portion 7-2. Ben Solomon (epee) and John-Paul Mitchell and Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes (foil) each went 3-0, while Max Peck and Fenil Ghodadra (epee) also went undefeated, splitting time.
The Tigers got past Penn 14-13 on the strength of an 8-1 epee win despite losing the other two weapons. Solomon lost his first dual meet bout of the season, going 2-1 against the Quakers, while Ghodadra and Tommi Hurme each went 3-0. Penn won the foil 7-2 and the saber 5-4, but Princeton managed to earn just enough wins in those two weapons to take the match.
Princeton and the winner of the Harvard-Columbia meet later Sunday will enter next weekend's competitions as the only two undefeated teams in the six-team league. The Tigers take on Columbia, Harvard and Yale next weekend.