ND Fencing Stats from 2007 NYU Duals in PDF Format
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Jan. 28, 2007
The 4th-ranked Notre Dame women’s fencing team won four of its six matches at the annual NYU Duals – including a 14-13 thriller with 5th-ranked Northwestern that came down to the final bout – while the 5th-ranked Irish men split their six matches, with each lose coming to teams ranked among the nation’s top-six.
(Note: this recap not includes expanded bout notes and stat links).
A pair of Olympic hopefuls led the way for Notre Dame, as senior men’s sabeist Patrick Ghattas and freshman women’s epeeist Kelley Hurley each went 17-1. Sophomore women’s foilist Adrienne Nott added a 15-3 record during the six matches.
The Notre Dame women improved to 12-2 for the season, after posting wins over Yale (19-8), NYU (21-6), 6th-ranked St. John’s (16-11) and regional rival Northwestern (14-13). The nation’s 2nd-ranked women’s team, Columbia-Barnard, edged Notre Dame (15-12), as did 6th-ranked Ohio State in a 14-13 decision (reversing the score from last week’s Notre Dame Duals).
The Notre Dame men (11-4) turned in wins over Yale (22-5), NYU (21-6) and Stevens Tech (17-10) but lost to 4th-ranked Columbia (12-15), 6th-ranked St. John’s (18-9) and 2nd-ranked Ohio State (17-10).
Senior epeeist Amy Orlando delivered the winning touch versus Northwestern, twice battling back to tie the score before defeating Christa French in overtime (4-3) for the 14-13 team victory.
The tournament featured many of the nation’s top-rated individual fencers, with other bouts of note for the Irish including junior men’s foilist Jakub Jedrkowiak beating Columbia’s Scott Sugimoto (5-3), who placed third at the 2006 NCAAs.
Ghattas – who did not compete at last week’s ND Duals due to a World Cup conflict – swept his rivals from Ohio State (5-3 vs. Sergey Smirnov, 5-1 vs. Jason Paul and 5-4 vs. Mike Momstelidze), in addition to adding a pair of top wins over Columbia fencers (5-4 vs. Alex Krul and James Williams). The Notre Dame men held an 11-9 lead over Columbia but could not close out the win, as the Lions roared back for five straight wins to clinch the victory.
The Ohio State women clinched their win over Notre Dame in the 24th bout, providing a little less drama than last week’s showdown that was decided in the second-to-last bout (26th).
Other bouts of note for Notre Dame included junior epeeist Greg Howard’s 5-4 win over Yale’s Michael Pearce (the 5th-place finisher at the ’06 NCAAs) and Nott’s 4-3 bout with fellow All-American Katia Larchanka, clinching the win over St. John’s at 14-11.
The always spirited women’s foil bouts between Notre Dame and Northwestern saw the Wildcats All-America duo of Jessica Florendo and Sam Nemecek nearly sweep their Irish counterparts – aside from Nott’s key 5-2 win over Florendo early in the match.
In addition to the fencers mentioned above, others with top records at the NYU Duals included senior sabreist Valerie Providenza (12-4), Howard (11-6), sophomore epeeist Kim Montoya (11-6) and sophomore foilist Emilie Prot (11-7).
Additional details follow below:
ND women vs. Northwestern – A strong showing in epee (7-2) delivered the win for the Irish, with NU claiming the edge in foil (6-3) and sabre (5-4) … Orlando, Hurley and Providenza each went 3-0 to pace the win … Nemecek’s opening win over junior foilist Melanie Bautista helped Northwestern jump out to a 2-0 lead but the Irish won three straight, capped by Hurley’s 5-3 win over Christa French … Nott later added a key 4-3 win over Florendo and senior Amy Orlando followed with a 5-4 victory over the other French twin (Kayley) for a 5-3 Irish lead … Montoya added her own 5-4 win (over former NCAA qualifier Courtney Dubois) and Hurley shortly followed suit with a 5-4 win over Kayley French that pushed the ND lead to 8-5 … Orlando’s 5-2 win over DuBois later left the Irish cushion at 11-9 but Nemecek’s victory over Prot (5-1) forged an 11-11 tie and NU then surged ahead when Kayley French topped Montoya (5-2) and sabreist Sophie Eustis edged sophomore Ashley Serrette, 5-4 … the Irish needed to win the final three bouts and that’s exactly what happened, as Providenza defeated fellow NCAA veteran Mai Van Vu (5-1), Hurley knocked off DuBois (5-2) and Orlando delivered the clincher versus Christa French (4-3, in OT) … French had priority and would have been awarded the win if there was no touch in the 1:00 sudden-death … the bout-by-bout sequence is listed below.
#4 Notre Dame women vs. #5 Northwestern, bout-by-bout sequence (ND 14, Northwestern 13)
WF – Samantha Nemecek def. Melanie Bautista, 4-2 … ND trails 0-1
WS – Mai Van Vu def. Ashley Serrette, 5-4 … 0-2
WF – Emilie Prot def. Natalie Wang, 5-4 … 1-2
WS – Valerie Providenza def. Adrienne Shon, 5-1 … 2-2
WE – Kelley Hurley def. Christa French, 5-3 … 3-2
WS – Sophie Eustis def. Erin Housing, 5-4 … 3-3
WF – Adrienne Nott def. Jessica Florendo, 5-2 … 4-3
WE – Amy Orlando def. Kayley French, 5-4 … 5-3
WF – Wang def. Bautista, 5-0 … 5-4
WE – Kimberlee Montoya def. Courtney DuBois, 5-4 … 6-4
WF – Nemecek def. Nott, 5-0 … 6-5
WS – Serrette def. Shon, 5-3 … 7-5
WE – Hurley def. K. French, 5-4 … 8-5
WS – Vu def. Housing, 5-1 … 8-6
WF – Florendo def. Prot, 5-3 … 8-7
WS – Providenza def. Eustis, 5-2 … 9-7
WE – C. French def. Montoya, 5-3 … 9-8
WF – Nott def. Wang, 5-1 … 10-8
WF – Florendo def. Rachel Cota, 5-1 … 10-9
WE – Orlando def. DuBois, 5-2 … 11-9
WS – Shon def. Christina Zoccoli, 5-0 … 11-10
WF – Nemecek def. Prot, 5-1 … 11-11 (Northwestern wins foil, 6-3)
WE – K. French def. Montoya, 5-2 … 11-12
WS – Eustis def. Serrette, 5-4 … 11-13
WS – Providenza def. Vu, 5-1 … 12-13 (Northwestern wins sabre, 5-4)
WE – Hurley def. DuBois, 5-2 … 13-13
WE – Orlando def. C. French, 4-3 …14-13 (French had priority in overtime; ND wins epee, 7-2)
ND-Columbia – The Notre Dame men were ahead 8-3 before Columbia stormed back to win 12 of the next 16 bouts for the 15-12 victory … Sugimoto went 2-1 against the Irish, defeating sophomore Mark Kubik (5-1) and senior Frank Bontempo (5-2) but losing to fellow All-American Jedrkowiak (3-5) … ND went 1-2 against another ’06 NCAA participant, Calvin Chen, with Bontempo (5-3) and Kubik (5-4) providing two wins and Jedrkowiak the only loss (0-5) … epeeist Dwight Smith swept the ND trio of Howard (5-3), senior Aaron Adjemian (5-2) and sophomore Karol Kostka (4-3) … Ghattas and sophomore Bill Thanhouser edged 2006 All-American Williams (both 5-4) but Williams defeated senior Matt Stearns (5-1) … two-time Krul narrowly lost to Ghattas (4-5) but defeated both Stearns (5-2) and Thanhouser (5-4) … 2005 NCAA women’s sabre champion (and ’06 runner-up) Emily Jacobson swept the three ND women’s sabreists – Serrette (5-3), Providenza (5-2) and Zoccoli (5-0) … Columbia’s women’s foil squad (made up of three NCAA veterans) topped their ND counterparts, 5-4 … Nott was 2-1 against the Lions, defeating Kelsey Finkel (5-0) and Cassidy Luitjen (5-3) but narrowly losing to Kathleen Reckling (4-5) … Bautista had a win over Finkel (4-1) but losses to Luitjen (0-5) and Reckling (3-4) … Prot’s win came against Reckling (4-3), with matching 1-5 losses to Finkel and Luitjen … 2006 NCAA participant Rachel Rowe was swept by the ND women’s epeeists (5-1 by Hurley, 5-2 by Montoya and 5-3 to Amy Orlando) … two-time All-American Alexie Rubin fenced just one bout against ND and lost to Montoya, 1-5.
#5 Notre Dame men vs. #4 Columbia, bout-by-bout (Columbia 15, ND 12)
ME – Karol Kostka def. Brent Kelly, 5-1 … ND leads 1-0
MF – Frank Bontempo def. Calvin Chen, 5-3 … 2-0
ME – Dwight Smith def. Greg Howard, 5-3 … 2-1
MS – Patrick Ghattas def. Alexander Krul, 5-4 … 3-1
MF – Scott Sugimoto def. Mark Kubik, 5-1 … 3-2
ME – Aaron Adjemian def. Lorenzo Casertano, 5-2 … 4-2
MS – Bill Thanhouser def. James Williams, 5-4 … 5-2
MF – Jakub Jedrkowiak def. Sherif Farrag, 5-1 … 6-2
MS – Jeff Spear def. Matt Stearns, 5-1 … 6-3
MF – Kubik def. Chen, 5-4 … 7-3
ME – Howard def. Kelly, 5-1 … 8-3
MS – Krul def. Thanhouser, 5-4 … 8-4
MF – Farrag def. Bontempo, 5-2 … 8-5
ME – Casertano def. Kostka, 5-2 … 8-6
MS – Ghattas def. Spear, 5-3 … 9-6
MS – Williams def. Stearns, 5-1 … 9-7
MF – Jedrkowiak def. Sugimoto, 5-3 … 10-7
ME – Smith def. Adjemian, 5-2 … 10-8
MF – Farrag def. Kubik, 5-0 … 10-9
ME – Howard def. Casertano, 5-4 … 11-9
MS – Spear def. Thanhouser, 5-2 … 11-10
MF – Chen def. Jedrkowiak, 5-0 … 11-11
MS – Krul def. Stearns, 5-2 … 11-12
ME – Kelly def. Adjemian, 5-2 … 11-13
MF – Sugimoto def. Bontempo, 5-2 … 11-14 (Columbia wins foil, 5-4)
MS – Ghattas def. Williams, 5-4 … 12-14 (Columbia wins sabre, 5-4)
ME – Smith def. Kostka, 4-3 … 12-15 (Columbia wins epee, 5-4)
ND-Yale – The Irish squad won 22-5, thanks to 9-0 margins in both foil and sabre … the epee bouts were more closely contested, with the Bulldogs topping the Irish, 5-4 … All-American Pearce went 2-1 against ND, beating Kostka (5-2) and Adjemian (5-1) but losing to Howard (4-5) … the three ND men’s sabreists swept Yale’s Christopher Peterson (Ghattas and Stearns 5-2, Thanhouser 5-4) … the ND women’s foilists split their bouts against NCAA veterans Diana Schawlowski and Alisa Mendelsohn … Schawlowski had 5-3 wins over Bautista and Prot and a loss to Nott (2-5) … Prot and Nott added wins over Mendelsohn (5-1 and 5-2, respectively) while Mendelsohn defeated Cota (5-2) for her only win.
ND-NYU – Two-time NCAA participant Phil Andrews went 2-1 against the ND men’s epeeists, topping Adjemian and Howard (both 5-3) but losing to Kostka (2-5) … 2005 All-American Lauren Willock also went 2-1 against the Irish in women’s epee, dropping her first bout to Hurley (2-5) but defeating Montoya (5-4) and Orlando (5-3).
ND-St. John’s – Though coming out on top 6-3 in sabre, the ND men lost 18-9 after losing in epee (2-7) and foil (1-8) … sabreist Luther Clement topped Ghattas (5-1) and Stearns (5-0) but lost to Thanhouser (3-5) … Nijmy Cadet achieved the exact opposite with a 5-1 win over Thanhouser and 2-5 losses to Ghattas and Stearns … Red Storm foilist and two-time NCAA participant Henry Kennard swept the Irish with 5-1 victories over Jedrkowiak and Bontempo and a 5-2 win against Kubik … three-time All-American Benjamin Bratton scored two victories over the Irish epeeists, beating Howard 5-1 and edging Kostka 5-4, while ’06 All-American Adam Rodney added a victory in his sole effort against ND (5-3 over Adjemian) … the Irish women’s epeeists went 3-0 against Joanna Guy, with Orlando, Hurley and Montoya all winning 5-4 over the two-time NCAA participant … SJU foilist Larchanka sandwiched a 5-0 win over Bautista in between losses to Nott (3-4) and Prot (1-5) … the ND women’s sabreists went 0-3 against Olga Ovtchinnikova as the ’06 All-American topped Serrette (5-3), Housing (5-2) and Providenza (5-4).
ND-Ohio State – The Notre Dame men edged Ohio State 5-4 in both sabre and epee and was swept 9-0 in foil en route to a 17-10 loss … Christian Rivera was 2-1 against ND with wins over Kostka (5-4) and Adjemian (5-2) coupled with a loss to Howard (4-5), while teammate Jason Pryor defeated Kostka (5-4) but was edged 4-5 by Howard and Adjemian … Ghattas went 3-0 against the OSU sabreists, with his wins against Momtselidze (5-4), Smirnov (5-3) and Paul (5-1) … Stearns likewise added a 5-4 win over Momtselidze but lost 5-3 to Paul … Thanhouser earned a 5-2 victory over Paul but lost to Momtselidze (1-5) … the OSU women came out on top thanks to an 8-1 advantage in sabre (ND won 6-3 in both epee and foil) with All-American Siobhan Byrne registering three wins over the Irish sabreists (5-1 over Housing, 5-0 over Serrette, 5-3 over Providenza).