Correction appended.

This weekend, the Judges’ fencing team participated in the 2016 United States Collegiate Squad Championships in Princeton, N.J. The Judges faced some tough competition on all fronts, with the best squad finish being a fifth-place finish for women’s foils. 

Starting on the men’s side, the men’s foil team of Guillermo Narvaez ’18, Elishua Litle ’19 and Toby Gray ’16 finished in eighth place, losing their opening round matchup against the University of Pennsylvania by a cumulative score of 45-33. 

In the bottom table, they narrowly fell to New York University’s first team, losing with a score of 45-37. All three foils scored victories in that matchup but could not hold NYU, despite a back-and-forth battle. 

The men’s epee team of Ari Feingersch ’16, Tom Hearne ’16, Albert Reiss ’17 and Hunter Stusnick ’18 finished sixth overall. They defeated Yale with a score of 45-40 in the first round but fell to top-seeded Penn in the second, 45-31. After narrowly edging Vassar College with a score of 45-44 in the secondary bracket, they were defeated 6-3 by University of the Incarnate Word to end with a sixth-place finish. 

The men’s saber team finished eighth in their pool. Eric Shen ’16, Kyle Berney ’18, Curtis Wilson ’18 and Yaotian Zhang ’19 propelled the Judges to a first-round win against NYU’s second team by a score of 45-36, but again, they ran into top-seeded Penn and fell 45-19. They were narrowly edged out by Vassar for seventh place with a score of 45-42.  

For the women, the foilists finished sixth overall. Joanne Carminucci ’19, Emilia Dwyer ’16 and Caroline Mattos ’16 had a bye to proceed to the second round, where they lost to Yale University’s first team with a score of 45-39. 

In subsequent bracket play, they defeated Johns Hopkins University 45-24 and lost to NYU’s first team to finish sixth. The epee squad of Liz Feller ’18, Sonya Glickman ’16, Gwen Mowell ’16 and Rosa Zhang ’16 also took sixth place in their pool. The Judges faced Johns Hopkins again after a first-round bye and were narrowly beat by a score of 45-42 before defeating Vassar with an identical score and subsequently falling to Yale’s first team to finish in sixth. 

Finally, the saber team of Deb Abiri ’16, Laura Broffman ’18 and Nina Sayles ’17 matched the feats of their teammates, and they placed sixth in their pool. This time, the Judges defeated Farleigh Dickinson University with a score of 45-24 to reach the second round where they ran into second-seeded Columbia University and fell 45-34. They defeated NYU’s first team wth a score of 45-38 before losing to Yale’s first team 45-27 to end with a sixth-place finish. 

The Judges will be back in action on March 13 at Vassar College as they will participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Championships in preparation to host the NCAA Championships at home from March 24 to March 27. 

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the fencing team finished third at Vassar College's National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Championships, and placed twelfth in the NCAA Championships.