The men’s fencing team hosted the MACFA Group B Round Robin on February 9. They came out with two wins against Hunter College and Yeshiva University and one loss against New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
They started the day strong against Hunter, with the Ducks going 9-0 in sabre and epee. First-years Spencer Depew and Chinli Ong both went 1-0 in sabre, with six forfeit victories for the Ducks. Graduate student Erik Marran and senior Jose Martinez-Ponce went 3-0 in epee, followed by senior Nicholas Smith, sophomore Noah Tumibay, and junior Andrew Yurovchak, who all took one win in epee. They ended their match with Hunter with an 8-1 win in foil. Junior Aden Vishnevsky and first-year Alan Hu took three wins, and junior Nick Reznick and senior Rocco Matthews each took one. The finished Hunter with a final score of 26-1.
They went up against NJIT next, Reznick getting three wins, Matthews getting two wins, and first-year Dev Badlani getting one final win for the foil group, ending that category with a score of 6-3. Tumibay and Smith both landed a pair of wins in epee, followed by Yurovchak with one, ending the epee group with a score of 5-4. In sabre, both Depew and senior Colin Mahoney landed wins for their category, but despite their best efforts and wins in foil and epee, Stevens fell to NJIT with a final score of 14-13.
Ending the day with matches against Yeshiva, the Ducks had a perfect score against them, with Ong, Depew, and sophomore Tyler Kometani earning three wins in sabre. To end the day, both epee and foil went 7-2 as their final scores. First-year Graham Shambarger and Vishnevsky went 3-0 in foil. The final win was notched by senior Evan Peneiras. Finally, sophomore Riley Parker and junior Esat Adiloglu both got two victories in epee, being led by Marran who went 3-0. These almost-perfect scores pushed the Ducks to a win of 23-4, which finalized their day with two wins.
On Sunday, February 16, the Ducks will be hosting the MACFA Group B vs. Group C. matchup, with the games starting at 10 a.m.
