Three Weapons at Trinity

Five members of the club competed in a small local tournament at Trinity College on Saturday, which hosted about 15 competitors in each of the three mixed events. (Final Results Here) (Photos Here)

Rebecca Davis, left, and Joel Rosiene warm up before Saturday’s competition.

Four of the five competed in epee, making up one third of the 12 total competitors. Joel Rosiene finished 6th, Scott Walker, 8th, Valentin de Wissocq, 9th, and Rebecca Davis, 11th. By commanding such a high percentage of the field, the teammates ended up meeting each other in the first round of elimination bouts. Rosiene defeated Davis 15-1 and Walker beat de Wissocq 15-14.

Rosiene and Walker were then defeated by the two fencers who ended up in the gold medal bout. Rosiene lost to Adam McGill of Wesleyan University 15-12 and Walker lost to the No. 1 seed, Joseph Way, 14-5. Way, an A2011, beat McGill, a D2010 15-10 in the final.

Carleton Whaley was the only one to fence sabre, finishing 8th out of 12, though he made a brief comeback after being seeded last out of pools with an 0-3 record. He beat No. 4 seed Vlad Burca of Trinity 15-8 in his first elimination bout, but lost to Sarah Lerman-Sinkoff of Wesleyan 15-3 in the next round. Lerman-Sinkoff, an E2010, went on to lose 15-4 to Wint Harvey of Amherst College, an E2012, in the finals.

Walker decided to fence two events on the day, also competing in foil, finishing 10th out of 15 competitors. After finishing the epee event, he went 2-2 in foil pools, losing 15-12 in the first elimination round to No. 8 seed Joseph Messinger of Amherst. Paul Canal defeated McGill 15-10 in the gold medal foil bout.