CFFA had a good day at the Powerade State Games of North Carolina, which were held in Raleigh yesterday.
Nicole Milewski got things started right as she went undefeated in both her pool and DEs to win the gold in the Y-12 mixed epee. Reaghan Juelke competed in the women’s foil, going 1-4 in her pool and getting stronger as the pool went on. Unfortunately she lost her 1st DE and finished 10th.
The men’s sabre was the largest event, a B2 with 30 participants. Alex Hoelscher went 2-2 in his pool, won his first DE and lost his second, finishing 15th. Erik Graf was 1-3 in his pool, lost his DE and finished 21st.
The epee was a possible A1. CFFA had 4 fencers competing, 3 of whom made the top 8, with the 4th being an impossibility because two of them ran into each other in the round of 16. Robert Thomas went 3-2 in his pool, only losing to the two people who finished 1st and 2nd in the end. Unfortunately, that got him Josh Harvey for his DE. Robert ended up 12th and received the silver medal for men’s vet epee, only losing to three medalists. Oliver Galbraith went 3-1 in his pool, won his 1st DE, and then lost a solid bout to Andrew Fullmer, finishing 7th. Jesse Harvey, was 4-1 in his pool. He then made everyone else in the room mad by taking our Steve Kmiec in his first DE, dropping the tournament to a B event. That set up a brother on brother confrontation which Jesse lost, finishing 5th. Josh was 3-1 in his pool, then knocked out Robert and Jesse before losing to the eventual winner in the semis. He picked up the bronze medal for his efforts.
Will Golder had a break out performance in the Y-12 foil. He was 3-1 in his pool. Then he ground out a workmanlike performance against a 3 foot tall, left handed, energizer bunny. He then beat the number one seed 15-3 and finished by getting revenge against the fencer who defeated him in the pool, netting him the gold medal.
Samantha Milewski went 5-2 in the women’s epee pool. She won her first 2 DEs, and lost a close bout in the finals to win the silver for the overall, Junior, and Cadet. Oliver Galbraith was our only fencer to do two events. He went 4-1 in his men’s foil pool, won his first DE, then lost the next one. He ended up with the bronze for the open and Junior divisions.
Congratulations to everyone and thanks to the organizers, armorers, and referees.
Standard week of practice, Tuesday and Thursday, plus Camp Lejeune Friday. I will be in for Saturday practice as well.
Not a lot of fencing locally for a while. However, Charlotte is holding a team epee event next Saturday. The twist is that once everyone who wants to fence shows up, Coach Toomey will put the teams together, trying to balance them rather than allowing the fencers themselves to create a really overwhelming team.
The week of the 27th I will be in Tuesday, but then am taking some time off to visit family. Someone will be in to open up Thursday. I’ll give you more details next week. No Camp Lejeune practice on Friday, July 1. I will find out if anyone will be in for a Saturday practice on the 2nd. I intend to be back for the Tuesday, July 5th practice.
People
have been asking about T-shirts and jackets. The last time we had
shirts done they ran $15 and are the design with the club logo on the
back and the fencer on the front. The jackets have the club logo on the
back and were $45. I don’t know if they would be that exact price as it
was a couple of years ago, but that should be a good approximate. If
you might be interested, let me know what you want and the correct size
so we can get an order together. So far very few people have contacted
me, even a number of those who had said they wanted shirts and jackets.
Beginner camp is July 11-15. Spread the word.
pax vobiscum,
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
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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