CFFA update for November 16

CFFA update for November 16
We had four people compete at the JO qualifiers at Mid-South this weekend.  In junior men’s foil, Oliver Galbraith started slowly, but then got it together to take the silver medal and qualify for both the junior and cadet foil competitions.  Samantha Milewski and Riley Hart competed in the junior women’s epee.  Unfortunately, they ran into each other in the first DE.  Samantha avenged her loss to Riley from the pool round and rode the momentum to the gold medal.  That qualifies her for both the Junior and cadet women’s epee events.  Riley finished fifth.  Oliver went undefeated in the pool round of the Junior men’s epee.  However, he dropped his first DE and came in 5th.  Emma Filer took the silver in the Junior Women’s foil which qualified her for that and the cadet women’s foil.  Oliver came back Sunday and took the silver in the cadet men’s epee, so he is also qualified for that.
Erica Julien did a couple of events in Virginia, but no results are up on askfred.
Should be a standard week of practice this week.
The
North Carolina Fencing League’s first event is
November 22nd and we will be hosting it.  Right now the people who will be fencing in the B division for CFFA will be the Emmas  (F & G), Reaghan Juelke and Harry Shaheen.  It would be good to have a couple more foilists so we can have a complete second team.  Volunteer referees are welcome.  It does not look right now that there will be a big turnout of B teams.  Starting time is 10 am, so be there enough earlier to warm up, etc.
Next week I was planning on having the homeschool practice on Wednesday, but no afterschool or evening practice.  No practice on Thanksgiving or on board Camp Lejeune on Black Friday.

Mid South is again hosting their Black Friday event on the 28th.  See askfred for details.

November
29th is the 2nd homeschool fencing event, again at Oak Ridge.  Fencers
can still join until January.  Another fencer over 13 would allow us to
have an A team.  Let me know if you are interested.  I think you can
talk to our people who competed and you will find out they enjoyed it.

December 6th is the 2nd NCFL meet, but again the location has not yet been determined.

Our

next home adult event is December 13.  Open foil, open epee, and Vet
epee.  Start getting signed up now.  We are currently the two Bs, and
another D, plus some bodies away from having a B event in the Vet’s.  Need a few bodies to get to 15 in the opens.  Salle New Bern is again donating some tickets for winners to the Tryon Palace Candlelight Tour on the 20th.


pax vobiscum,

 
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
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