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Fencers Take Best Finish Since '03 at NCAA Finals
March 28, 2010 | Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- With its best finish since 2003, Princeton took sixth place at the NCAA fencing championship Sunday to wrap the four-day competition.
The Tigers finished eighth a year ago and qualified the maximum 12 fencers to this year's event. Princeton wasn't far from finishing fourth, which would have tied its best finish at the NCAAs since the current men's-women's combined format began in 1990, but Ohio State finished with 139 victories to 137 for fifth-place Harvard and 135 for the Tigers.
The victory totals came from the 23 round-robin bouts per fencer within each of the six weapons, epee, foil and saber for both the men and women.
All seven Ivies were within the top 21 schools, with three Ivies in the top six. Columbia, with 98 wins, took sixth place behind Harvard and Princeton.
Among Princeton's individual results, senior saberist Thomas Abend finished 12th with All-America status, junior saberist John Stogin finished 20th, sophomore foilist Alexander Mills claimed All-America honors with an 11th-place finish, sophomore foilist David Mandle placed 18th, rookie epeeist Jonathan Yergler was also an All-America in ninth place, and junior epeeist Graham Wicas placed 20th.
In the women's competition that wrapped Friday, freshman saberist Eliza Stone won All-America honors with an eighth-place finish, freshman saberist Joanna Cichomski was 13th, freshman foilist Brianna Martin was also an All-America with a sixth-place finish, while sophomore foilist Rocky Rothenberg placed 15th, sophomore epeeist Susannah Scanlan won All-America honors with a seventh-place finish, and rookie epeeist Phoebe Caldwell placed 15th.
The NCAA final completes a season that saw both the men's and women's programs win their first Ivy League titles since 2001 and each program record a school-record number of wins, with the men finishing 21-3 and the women 24-3.