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Women's Fencing Wins One of Three in Day One of Ivy League Championship
February 05, 2006 | Women's Fencing
Feb. 5, 2006
ITHACA, N.Y. - The Princeton women's fencing team started out well on Sunday at the opening day of the Ivy League Championships but ended up dropping its last two matches by small margins. Following a 17-10 win over Cornell, the Tigers fell by a point to Brown and by five to Penn.
Against Brown, Erin McGarry was 3-0 in the epee leading Princeton to a 7-2 win in the weapon. Jacqueline Leahy and Sara Jew-Lim also went undefeated in the foil as the Tigers won that weapon 8-1. Both of those outcomes allowed Princeton to make up for a 7-2 loss in the saber.
But losing the saber by the same score cost Princeton the match against Brown, 14-13, as the Orange and Black was only able to muster five wins in the epee and six in the foil. Brown got at least one match from each Princeton competitor in the epee and the Tigers won the weapon only 5-4. Leahy and Jew-Lim went undefeated in the foil, but Princeton still won that weapon only 6-3. Those margins of victory couldn't compensate for the 7-2 saber loss in the one-point defeat by the Bears.
McGarry and Leahy again won all three of their matches against Penn but the epee and foil margins totaled the same as against Brown. With a 9-0 loss in the saber, Penn was able to clear the Tigers by five points in a 16-11 win.
Next Sunday, Princeton completes the league competition with matches against Columbia, Harvard and Yale. The second day of round-robin play will be held at Columbia.