Men’s Match Report
Women’s Match Report
JAMAICA, New York — The University of Notre Dame fencing teams started off 2020 facing some of the best teams in the country Saturday at the St. John’s Invitational. The top-ranked women’s squad went 3-2 on the day while the second-ranked men went 0-5 with both teams going up against top-10 opponents.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The women’s squad scored victories over No. 4 Harvard (18-9), No. 5 Ohio State (16-11), No. 8 St. John’s (14-13) while dropping matches to No. 6 Penn State (16-11) and No. 3 Columbia (16-11). All three squads finished with similar records, foil led the way at 24-21 while sabre and epee finished 23-22 on the day.
Sophomore sabreur Kara Linder paced the women’s squad with a 10-5 mark throughout the day. Junior foilist Stefani Deschner just missed the 10-win mark after going 9-4 and graduate student Amanda Sirico led the epee squad after going 7-2.
The men’s squad dropped two close matches to No. 5 Ohio State (14-13), No. 4 Penn State (14-13) and also fell to No. 3 Harvard (16-11), No. 7 St. John’s (16-11) and No. 1 Columbia (18-9). Sophomore sabreur Jared Smith led the way for the men with an 8-5 record while freshman epeeist Harrison Kimatian also hit the eight-win mark after going 8-7 on the day.
UP NEXT
The Irish will finish their east coast swing with the Philadelphia Invitational on Sunday. First match is against Yale and it begins at 8:30 a.m. ET.
Results
St. John’s Invitational
Taffner Field House
Jamaica, NY
Jan. 18, 2020
Women’s Results
No. 1 Notre Dame 16, No. 5 Ohio State 11
Sabre (4-5): Regina O’Brien 2-1, Kara Linder 1-2, Reghan Ward 1-2
Foil (6-3): Stefani Deschner 2-1, Finnula Mageras 2-1, Morgan Partridge 2-1
Epee (6-3): Julia Barry 2-1, Miriam Grady 2-1, Dasha Yefremenko 2-1
No. 6 Penn State 16, No. 1 Notre Dame 11
Sabre (4-5): Linder 3-0, Ward 1-2, O’Brien 0-3
Foil (3-6): Samantha Viqueira 1-0, Partridge 1-2, Deschner 1-2, Mageras 0-2
Epee (4-5): Yefremenko 2-1, Grady 2-1, Barry 0-2, Amanda Sirico 0-1
No. 1 Notre Dame 18, No. 4 Harvard 9
Sabre (6-3): O’Brien 2-1, Ward 2-1, Linder 2-1
Foil (7-2): Deschner 3-0, Partridge 2-1, Viqueira 2-1
Epee (5-4): Grady 2-1, Victoria Tontcheva 1-0, Sirico 1-1, Yefremenko 1-2
No. 1 Notre Dame 14, No. 8 St. John’s 13
Sabre (5-4): Ward 2-1, Linder 2-1, Sienna Wilson 1-1, O’Brien 0-1
Foil (4-5): Deschner 2-1, Partridge 1-2, Viqueira 1-2
Epee (5-4): Sirico 3-0, Yefremenko 1-2, Grady 1-2
No. 3 Columbia 16, No. 1 Notre Dame 11
Sabre (4-5): Linder 2-1, Ward 1-1, Wilson 1-2
Foil (4-5): Isabelle Elizondo 3-0, Deschner 1-2, Partridge 0-3
Epee (3-6): Sirico 3-0, Yefremenko 0-3, Grady 0-3
Men’s Results
No. 5 Ohio State 14, No. 2 Notre Dame 13
Sabre (4-5): Jared Smith 2-1, George Bivins 1-2, Malcolm Fields 1-1, Guram Lortkipanidze 0-1
Foil (7-2): Joseph Marino 3-0, Robert Wong 3-0, Hans Wei Shen Yoon 1-2
Epee (2-7): Darius Zacharakis 1-2, Valentin Matveev 1-2, Harrison Kimatian 0-3
No. 4 Penn State 14, No. 2 Notre Dame 13
Sabre (4-5): Bivins 2-1, Fields 1-1, Alessandro Contreras 1-0, Smith 0-2, Lortkipanidze 0-1
Foil (1-8): Marino 1-2, Yoon 0-1, Thomas Murray 0-2, Wong 0-3
Epee (8-1): Kimatian 3-0, Matveev 3-0, Zacharakis 2-1
No. 3 Harvard 16, No. 2 Notre Dame 11
Sabre (4-5): Contreras 2-1, Bivins 1-2, Smith 1-1, Fields 0-1
Foil (3-6): Wong 2-1, Marino 1-2, Yoon 0-3
Epee (4-5): Matveev 2-1, Zacharakis 1-2, Kimatian 1-2
No. 7 St. John’s 16, No. 2 Notre Dame 11
Sabre (5-4): Bivins 2-1, Smith 2-1, Lortkipanidze 1-1, Contreras 0-1
Foil (4-5): Matthew Tichacek 2-1, Wong 1-2, Marino 1-2
Epee (2-7): Matveev 1-2, Kimatian 1-2, Zacharakis 0-2, Gareth Spiteri 0-1
No. 1 Columbia 19, No. 2 Notre Dame 8
Sabre (3-6): Smith 3-0, Lortkipanidze 0-1, Contreras 0-1, Fields 0-2
Foil (0-9): Bivins 0-2, Marino 0-2, Tichacek 0-3, Yoon 0-1
Epee (5-4): Kimatian 3-0, Joshua Zhang 2-1, Zacharakis 0-3
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