CFFA update for April 10

 

Results from the Richmond NAC.  On Friday Joe McLaughlin fenced the combined Vet’s sabre.  He went 1-5 in his pool, lost his first DE, and finished 43rd.  Samantha Milewski went 2-3 in her pool in Div III epee, won her first DE, then lost the second and finished 26th.  Erica Julien fenced the Vet 70 sabre and took 6th place.  That makes Erica the first person in the club to win a national medal in sabre. Scott Butler, who is fencing as CFFA to be on our team for a team event, fenced the Div III foil.  He was 2-4 in the pool, lost his DE and came in 48th.

On Saturday,  Scott, Herman Smith, and Paul Perkins were our Vet’s epee team.  In team events it is a DE format from the start.  Our guys went up against a team of As and Bs from LA.  They lead early, but ended up losing 27-45.  Joe fenced the Vet 60 sabre, won his first DE and finished 16th.  Erica fenced the Vet 70 epee, went 4-3, won her first DE, lost the second, and tied for the bronze medal.  Combined with her 2nd place in Baltimore, this pretty much guarantees the Erica will make the Veteran’s world championship team that will be fencing in Germany in October.  Bob O’Quinn fenced the Div III epee, went 3-3 in his pool and finished 43rd in his first national event. 

Sunday saw Robert Thomas, Herman, Paul, and Scott all fencing in the combined Vet’s epee.  Robert, Paul, and Herman had similar days.  All went 3-3 in their pools and dropped their first DE.  Robert was 65th, Paul was 68th, and Herman was 73rd.  Scott was 6-0 in his pool, but had some weapon issues in his DE and dropped a close one finishing 34th.  Erica did the combined Vet sabre and got 3 touches against the number 1 seed in her DE, finishing 32nd.

Some of our people have events Monday and I will let you know those results later.  Due to that fencing there will be no afterschool or classes on Monday.  The rest of the week should be normal. 

Our next event is Saturday, April 16th.  Open foil, Open epee, and an E and under foil.  The epee is now an A event.  The foil could be a C.  It has the ranks, but not the numbers.  The E foil was put there as an event that our lower level/beginning foilists could enter and compete against other similar fencers.  The foil fencers need to learn from the epee fencers.  They got signed up and other people from across the state have jumped in and made the event higher rated. Our foilists need to get signed up, at least for the E and under, and a few should try the open.  Now is better than later, otherwise for next season it will make no sense to try and hold such events.  We are at four and need two more Us to make it an event where someone will earn an E.  If a bunch of Us sign up, then we might start pulling in the 4 Es you need to make it a D event.

April 30/May 1 is an RJCC at Apex.  This is a regional competition solely for Y-16 and Y-19 events.  Most of the men’s events look like they will be A competitions.  The women’s events will be strong although probably not that strong.  Entry fees go up after April 15.