Gerrit Swart and Orion Brown tied for third. For those 9 and under Jacob Brown won the gold and Zane Jaghman of Salle New Bern won silver. Sabre was Reaghan, followed by Amir Shaheen with Avery Walston
3rd. In the epee, Nicole Milewski beat all the boys, Will took second; Keegan Million and Kent Walston tied for third. Here are the sword points so far:
Boys Girls
Will Golder
14 Reaghan Juelke 11
Gerrit Swart 7 Nicole Milewski 6
Orion Brown
7 Abbi Gray 5
Jacob Brown 4 Caroline Artz 3
Keegan Million
4 Isabelle Artz 2
Kent Walston 4
Amir Shaheen 2
Hayden Amdahl 2
Liam Bruno 1
Avery Walston 1
Zane
Jaghman 1
Thanks to Donny Zelinski, Heather Hofstetter, and Samantha Milewski with the refereeing help. Thanks to all the parents for bringing your children.
Should be a fairly regular week of practice. No Tuesday/Thursday class, as it finished last week, so people can start early. I believe the UNCW fencers should be down on Wednesday, but I cannot promise.
I think everyone has seen how slippery the strips have become, even with a lot of sweeping, so I would like to propose the following: Let stop a bit early Thursday night and sweep and mop the entire floor. Then on Saturday, if people would come in for a bit about 10 we could put a couple of coats of lacquer on just the strips. They can dry and by Monday the strips should have good grip again. If a number of people come in on
Saturday, it won’t take long and then you can go to Riverfest.
The next beginner class will start on Tuesday, October 7th, at 6:30 pm. Intermediate class at 7:30 pm if interest.
The October 10th, practice at Camp Lejeune may be on the short schedule due to it being a holiday weekend, I am trying to find out.
Our second adult event is October 11th. Open epee, Open foil, and a D and under foil. Start signing up now. Having our fencers in is a big part of the draw, so unless we have a good enough field to be “bait,” don’t expect other people to come down here.
October
18th is the Tiger Open in Clemson. This has started being a very large
event recently. The open epee is already an A and the foil is a
B. They also have D and under events in foil and epee.
A little closer is an event in Raleigh that has a number of unsanctioned Y-12 and Y14 events, plus sanctioned open foil and epee and Div II sabre events on the 18th and 19th.
I haven’t been approached, but I am guessing that St. Mary will want to set up for the haunted house part of their Fall Festival on Thursday, October 23rd, so I would guess there will be no practice that evening, maybe as early as afterschool on the 22nd.
October 25th is The Joseph Cadole in New
Bern. It is an E and under foil event, perfect for those of you looking
for a lower stress first tournament or a real shot at your foil ranking. I am going so let me know if you are interested in a ride.
The North Carolina Fencing League’s first event is
November 22nd and we will be hosting it. It is a foil team event and takes teams of three fencers and they can have a sub. It doesn’t cost anything, but it is appreciated if we have volunteer referees. Fencers do need a full outfit including knickers and underarm protector. Let us know if you might be interested in fencing and don’t have such things yet so we can see if the club has your size or can borrow from someone. Our teams fence in the B Division since we don’t represent a school. In that division fencers can be any age so we will put together as many teams as we can. Of course, you will possibly be fencing people all the way up to high school age, but we can try to split some of it out by ages.
Homeschool fencers cannot fence in the NCFL this year. Your first meet is November 29th, but the location has not been decided. It is also a foil team type meet under the same rules.
If
anyone is available, Heather and I can use some help with the homeschool class on Wednesdays at 1 pm, or the afterschool classes on Tuesday and Thursday at 3 pm. I will pick up your upgrade to a professional membership if need be. It is hard to teach the beginner class and give any instruction to the more advanced fencers at the same time.
pax vobiscum,
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
