Titans
Place 15th at NCAA Championships Mar.
28, 2004 - Waltham, Massachusetts Roland Breden and Brian Fraser
each finished in the Top 20 of men's foil Sunday and Cal State Fullerton
settled for 15th place at the
NCAA National Collegiate Fencing Championships Sunday at the Gosman Athletic
Center on the campus of Brandeis University.
Breden, in his fourth NCAA finals, placed 16th with 10 wins and minus
13 touches. Fraser was 19th with 8 wins and minus 32 touches.
Ohio State won its first NCAA title,
outscoring second-place Penn State by 34 points, 194-160. Rutgers and
Yale were the teams just ahead of Fullerton, tying for 13th place with
44 points to 35 for Fullerton. Air Force was only one point behind the
Titans in 16th place, where Fullerton finished a year ago.
Ohio State posted the second highest team total in the five years that
the NCAA has contested events in six weapons. The Buckeyes won 97 bouts
in both the men's and women's competition to reach their total of 194
points. Penn State surpassed Notre Dame on the final day of competition
to keep its streak of finishing in the top two of every NCAA National
Collegiate Fencing Championship that has been held since 1990. Notre Dame
finished in third place with 153 points, while St. John's (N.Y.) moved
into the top four with 149 points. Columbia placed fifth with 146 points.
St. John's was the top scorer in the men's competition, totaling 109 bout
victories.
Individually, Ohio State sophomore Adam Crompton successfully defended
his 2003 sabre crown. Crompton narrowly defeated Columbia fencer Sergey
Isayenko, 15-14, in the title bout, avenging one of his two losses in
the round robin. Rutgers University freshman Benjamin Igoe defeated
Penn State's Marten Zagunis, 15-6, to claim third place in the sabre.
Buckeye freshman Boaz Ellis went 24-1 on the day to claim his first NCAA
title in the foil. Ellis defeated Yale University sophomore Cory Werk,
15-8, in the title bout. Werk, seeded fourth in the semis, reached the
final match by handing top-seeded St. John's sophomore Nitai Kfir one
of his two losses for the tournament, 15-12. Kfir defeated Columbia's
Jeremy Sinkin, 15-12, for third place.
The finals of the men's epee was an all-St. John's affair as junior Arpad
Horvath defeated rookie teammate Benjamin Bratton, 15-7, in the finals.
It was the second crown for Horvath, who won the 2002 title. Both Red
Storm fencers survived narrow semifinal matches. Bratton defeated Notre
Dame junior Michal Sobieraj , 15-13, while Horvath downed Ohio State junior
Denis Tolkachev, 11-10, in overtime. Sobieraj claimed third place with
a 15-8 victory.
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Host Brandeis University finished in 17th place out of 33 schools, scoring
28 points. The Judges were the highest-placing Division III school.
Complete results from the NCAA National Collegiate Fencing Championships
can be found on the web at: http://www.brandeis.edu/ncaafencing.
TEAM SCORES
1. Ohio State 194
2. Penn State 160
3. Notre Dame 153
4. St. John's 149
5. Columbia 146
6. Pennsylvania 104
7. Princeton 79
8. Harvard 73
9. Wayne State 62
10. Stanford 60
11. Northwestern 50
12. Duke 48
13. Rutgers 44
13. Yale 44
15. CSU-Fullerton 35
16. Air Force 34
17. Brandeis 28
18. Temple 25
19. Cornell 23
20. NYU 19
21. Brown 17
22. Haverford 14
23. MIT 12
23. Drew 12
25. Tufts 11
25. UNC 11
27. Vassar 8
28. Johns Hopkins 7
29. CalTech 6
29. NJIT 6
29. UCSD 6
32. Hunter 1
32. Sacred Heart 1
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN'S SABRE
1st place: Adam Crompton (Ohio State) def. Sergey Isayenko (St. John's),
15-14
3rd place: Benjamin Igoe (Rutgers) def. Marten Zagunis (Penn State), 15-6
MEN'S FOIL
1st place: Boaz Ellis (Ohio State) def. Cory Werk (Yale), 15-8
3rd place: Nitai Kfir (St. John's) def. Jeremy Sinkin (Columbia), 15-12
MEN'S EPEE
1st place: Arpad Horvath (St. John's) def. Benajmin Bratton (St. John's),
15-7
3rd place: Michal Sobieraj (Notre Dame) def. Denis Tolkachev (Ohio State),
15-8
WOMEN'S SABRE
1st place: Valerie Providenza (Notre Dame) def. Sophia Hiss (Penn State),
15-8
3rd place: Louise Bond-Williams (Ohio State) def. Emma Baratta (Columbia),
15-14
WOMEN'S FOIL
1st place: Alicja Kryczalo (Notre Dame) def. Andrea Ament (Notre Dame),
15-7
3rd place: Hanna Thompson (Ohio State) def. Jacqueline Leahy (Princeton),
15-6
WOMEN'S EPEE
1st place: Anna Garina (Wayne State) def. Kerry Walton (Notre Dame), 15-10
3rd place: Anne Kercsmar (Duke) def. Meghan Phair (Cornell), 15-7
