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Two Tigers Claim Individual Gold as Princeton Finishes Fourth at IFA Meet
February 24, 2008 | Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
NEW YORK -- Graham Wicas and Jasjit Bhinder won their weapons as the Princeton fencing teams repeated their fourth-place finish from a year ago at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet held Sunday at Columbia's Dodge Fitness Center.
Wicas defeated Harvard's Teddy Sherrill 7-6 to win men's epee gold while Mike Elfassy knocked off Yale's Michael Pearce 15-12 to win bronze in the weapon. Bhinder won the women's epee gold over Penn's Kathryn Anthony, 3-2, while Karen Petsche won a silver medal in the foil, falling 15-6 to Harvard's Misha Goldfeder.
Princeton's epeeists paced the men's team by tying for first in the weapon with a bout record of 22-8. Wicas, Elfassy and Nathaniel Sulat placed in the top three in their flights.
The homestanding Lions won the meet with a combined men's/women's individual bout win-loss record of 137-51, finishing ahead of Penn (135-53) and Harvard (123-65) ahead of the Tigers (99-89). Princeton edged Yale by a single bout as the Bulldogs finished fifth, ahead of Brandeis, Boston College, NYU, Brown, MIT, Vassar and Cornell's women's team in the 12-school event.
Princeton finished fifth in both the men's standings and the women's standings. Columbia, Penn, Harvard and Yale were the top four on the men's side with Penn, Columbia, Harvard and Cornell taking the top four spots on the women's side.
In the individual weapon breakdown, the men's sabreists took sixth and foilists seventh while the women's epeeists were the strongest of the three weapons on that side as well with a fifth-place finish. The women's foilists and sabreists each took seventh.
Select Princeton fencers will await an announcement this week as to which Tigers will earn a chance to compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals next weekend.