The CC Fencing Team hosted a 5 school meet on Sunday and walks away undefeated. CC hosted Beaver Country Day School, Bishop Feehan, Buckingham Brown and Nichols, and the international school of Boston and CC wins every meet.
The day started with a tired CC time fencing Beaver Country Day School. The team fenced them in December and won both but nothing is guaranteed. Since Beaver was short two starters so the score started at 6-0. The saber squad jumped ahead with 6 wins in the first two rounds and Claire Dettelbach ’17 clinched the 14th win. The final score was 18-9. The Men’s meet was close but won by Kevin Fan ’15. The Final score was 18-9.
The second round was against Bishop Feehan. Last week at Dana Hall the Men’s Team won but the girls team lost. Today, all three women’s squads pulled together each going 5-4 leading to a 15-12 win, the 14th bout was won by Natalie Ma. On the Men’s Team, Captain Jacob Hession-Kunz ’14 lead the men sabre squad to a 7-2 win and won the 14th bout. The final score was 14-13.
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The third round was against BB&N. These teams fencing in December and BB&N won decisively (7-20 and 8-19). This time was different, the CC team has made a lot of progress since that loss, fencing better and functioning as a team a lot better. Although women’s foil struggled and only won 3, the women’s sabre team picked up 5 wins and women’s epee (with two fencers who started this season) picked up the remaining 6 bouts to finish the women’s match off with a 14-13 win. In the second round, MacKenzie King ’16 was behind 2-4 with under a minute left to fence. MacKenzie tied the score with 1 second on the clock, won priority and scored the winning point in the overtime minute. The 14th bout was won by Jackie Luckner ’14. The men’s meet started out looking like it would be a repeat of December and at the end of the first round the score was 2-7. The team was able to claw back to 8-10 after the second round. Epee had already finished the 3rd round and tied it up at 10-10. With 6 bouts remaining, the remaining fencers were confident about 3 bouts and there was one maybe. Men’s Sabre won 3 all three bouts which left Jacob Golson ’16 on the strip to win the 14th bout. Both Jacob and his opponent are lefties and after a minute and a half no one had scored. Jacob finally took a 1-0 lead but he’s opponent answered and time expired with the score tied. CC won priority and they started to fence the overtime minute. After a very tense minute, time expired, Jacob won the 14th match and things look much better about meeting BB&N next week at States.
After a round off, CC fenced the International School of Boston. This is only the second year ISB has competed in the league and for this meet they didn’t have any sabre fencers and have to forfeit 9 bouts to the Men’s and Women’s Team. Their Women’s Team only had one foil fencer and two epee fencers so when the meet started the score was 18-0 for CC. The final score was 19-8. The Men’s Team had to fence to get the remaining 5 bouts to win the meet, which was done again by Jacob Golson ’16. The finals score was 20-7.
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After the meet, a third of the team went down to Chang An for a victory dinner. The professional day on Monday could not have been better timed.
It has been a long weekend for the team, 7 meets in two days and both teams finish with a 6-1 record for the weekend. The Women’s team now stands at 11-6 for the season (a big turnaround from the beginning of the season) and the Men’s Team is 12-5. The season is rapidly coming to a close with the last dual meet on Thursday vs SJP and Dana Hall at 5 pm in the lower gym and State Championships on Sunday at BB&N. It feels like November 1st was only a few weeks ago…
