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Men Win Two, Women One in First Weekend of Ivy Fencing Competition
February 11, 2007 | Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The first of two days of Ivy League competition that will decide the league's fencing champions took place Sunday at Penn. Princeton's men won two of three matches while the women won one of three.
On the men's side, Princeton began the day with a 16-11 win over Harvard. The Tigers took all three weapons, with the sabre and foil coming by 5-4 margins and the epee 6-3. All six epee wins came from the Hurme brothers, Tommi and Edward, who went undefeated against the Crimson.
But the sabre and foil squads weren't able to come through in the next match against Penn, with the Quakers winning the team competition 14-13. Penn won the sabre 6-3 and the foil 5-4 with Princeton taking the epee 6-3 as Tommi Hurme went 3-0 once again.
The Princeton men closed the day with a 21-6 win over Brown, taking the foil and epee weapons by 8-1 margins to complement a 5-4 sabre win. The Hurme brothers each went 3-0 in epee while Douglas Hohensee also won all three bouts in foil.
On the women's side, Harvard topped Princeton 17-10 in the day's first match. The Crimson swept the sabre and took the foil, 5-4, while three wins apiece from Jasjit Bhinder and Erin McGarry helped the Tigers to a 6-3 epee win.
Penn got past the Tiger women, 18-9. The Quakers swept the sabre and won the foil, 6-3, before Princeton won the epee by the same score.
Wins in the foil and epee helped the Tigers to an 18-9 win over Brown. Princeton won 8 of 9 in foil and 7 of 9 in epee, with Cara DiGirolamo (sabre), Jocelyn Svengsouk (foil), Karen Petsche (foil) and Jasjit Bhinder (epee) all went 3-0 in their bouts despite Brown taking the sabre, 6-3.
After some Tiger fencers travel to Denver, Colo., to compete in the Junior Olympics next weekend, the second round of Ivy League competition will commence Feb. 25 at Harvard to decide the Ivy title.
Columbia (2-0) leads the men's standings ahead of Princeton (2-1), Penn (2-1), Harvard (1-1), Yale (1-2) and Brown (0-3). Harvard (3-0) and Columbia (3-0) are tied atop the women's standings, ahead of Penn (3-1), Princeton (1-2), Brown (1-2), Cornell (0-3) and Yale (0-3).