Pomme de Terre 2011

We would like to Congratulate all of our athletes that fenced in thePomme de Terre this past weekend.

The Pomme de Terre is one of the largest tournaments in the Northeast. With over 500 entries it becomes a very exciting event.

Over the weekend, our Asst. Coach, Will Barnhart earned his B rating in Epee and re-earned his B rating in Foil! Ian Shultis not only did a great job fencing Saber on Saturday, he also directed several bouts on Sunday, including many semi-finals.

We had a some of our Teen students fence in the Pomme de Terre, Andy Zito, Vincenzo Agostaro, Russell Brearley, Ted Nalesnik and Jacob Shultis. All of these fencers had a great time participating and fenced very well.

Saturday evening, Team Phoenix went out and explored Waltham, Ma. We found a great restaurant, The Watch City Brewery, which offered a variety of moderately priced meals. One of the more notable menu items was the Tick Tock, a deep fried cheese burger!

We would like to once again congratulate everyone who participated this weekend. Also, we would like to Thank all of the parents and family members who made it out to support and cheer for the athletes.

Results from this tournament should be up on askFRED.net soon. We are also in the process of uploading the weekends videos to ourYoutube channel.

The results for the Pomme de Terre can be found on NEUSFA’s website

Senior Men’s Epee
Will Barnhart – 10th Place earning his B11
Senior Men’s Saber
Ted Nalesnik – 14th
Ian Shultis – 22nd
Senior Women’s Epee
Becca Kwiatoski – 23rd (tie)
Senior Men’s Foil
Will Barnhart – 13th (tie) earning his B11
Russell Brearley – 35th
E & Under Senior Men’s Epee
Jacob – 36th
E & Under Senior Men’s Saber
Vincenzo Agostaro – 31st
Andy Zito – 41st

Summer National Qualifiers

Summer National Qualifiers were held Sunday at Vassar College. We had a great turnout and would like to thank everyone who came out and fenced. We would also like to congratulate those fencers who qualified to fence at Summer Nationals;

C & under Men’s Foil

Russell Brearley – 1st Place

Dan Raven (Marist) – 2nd Place

Dan McCarthy – 3rd Place

D & under Men’s Foil

David Amrani (Marist) – 2nd Place

Russell Brearley – 3rd Place

C & under Men’s Saber

Ted Nalesnik – 1st Place

Tristan Dubin – 3rd Place

D & Under Men’s Saber

Ted Nalesnik – 1st Place

Tristan Dubin – 2nd Place

We would also like to congratulate James Dolan, Bob Nilsen, & Ian Shultis for their participation in the qualifiers.

Y14 & Cadet Qualifiers were held in March at CDFS

Jacob Shultis – Y14 Men’s Epee – 1st Place

Russell Brearley – Y14 Men’s Foil – 1st Place

James Dolan –  Y14 Men’s Foil – 2nd Place

Jacob Shultis – Y14 Men’s Foil – 3rd Place

Jacob Shultis – Cadet Men’s Epee – 1st Place

Russell Brearley – Cadet Men’s Foil – 2nd Place

James Dolan – Cadet Men’s Foil – 3rd Place

Tristan Dubin – Cadet Men’s Saber – 2nd Place

This years Summer Nationals are being held in Atlanta, GA. We will be traveling down as a club to support all of our fencers who qualified. Stay tuned to the Blog and the Newsletter for more information over the coming weeks! While at Summer Nationals you’ll be able to follow all the action on twitter.com/PHXcenter

Weekly Results 3/29/2010

Results for March 21 – 28, 2010

3/21 – Prise de Fer Boys Super Youth Circuit (SYC)

Russell Brearley – Y14 Men’s Foil – 24th

Russell earned National Points at this event!

3/27 – Woodstock Open

Jenna Gorab (Marist) – Women’s Epee – 1st

Dominic Saccento (Marist) – Men’s Epee – 10th

Ben Pozar (Marist) – Men’s Epee – 13th

Sarah Black (Marist) – Women’s Saber – 1st

Ian Rumrill (Marist) –  Men’s Saber – 3rd

Shane Steinert (Marist) – Men’s Saber – 4th

Brianna Rosamilia (Marist) – Women’s Foil – 2nd

David Amrani (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 3rd

Dan Raven (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 4th

Dan McCarthy – Men’s Foil – 5th

Michael Schepis – Men’s Foil – 6th

Calvin Dinio – Men’s Foil – 7th

Jonathan Porras (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 8th

Bob Nilsen – Men’s Foil – 9th

Sam English (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 12th

John Matcovich (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 13th

Y14 and U16 Qualifier Results

The Phoenix Center’s fencers did very well this past weekend qualifying all of our fencers for Y14 and U16 events at the 2010 Summer National Championships. The qualifiers were held up in Schenectady at Capital District Fencing School. Participants from our club included Russell Brearley, James Dolan, Jacob Shultis, and Tristan Dubin.

Jacob Shultis qualified for Y14 Men’s Epee and Foil. Jake also qualified for U16 Men’s Epee.

James Dolan and Russell Brearley both qualified for Y14 and U16 Men’s Foil.

Tristan Dubin qualified for U16 Men’s Saber.

We are very proud of our fencers and encourage them to train hard as Summer Nationals approaches. The competition will be tough there, but if we keep working smart and keep working hard we will do well.

The Div 2, Div 3, and Team Qualifiers will take place on April 18, 2010. Fencers must be 13 or older to participate in the Div 2/3/Team qualifier. Div 3 fencers must be rated D or lower at the time of the qualifier, Div 2 fencers must be rated C or lower at the time of the qualifier, and the Team Qualifier is for all teams from the same club who wish to fence at Summer Nationals.

Weekly Results

Results for February 8 – 14th, 2010

2/14 – Uriah Jones Memorial Youth Tournament

Russell Brearley – Y14 Mixed Foil – 1st Place

Jacob Shultis – Y14 Mixed Foil – 3rd Place

Cadet Mixed Epee – 3rd Place

James Dolan – Y14 Mixed Foil – 10th Place

1/30 2010 CDFS Winter Foil

Russell Brearley – D & Under Mixed Foil – 1st Place

Jacob Shultis – D & Under Mixed Foil – 3rd Place

David Amrani – D & Under Mixed Foil – 3rd Place

Russell’s 1st place win on suday was his 4th in a row! Go Redfish!!

Bergen Saber Open Review

The Bergen Saber Open was this past weekend.  We had 2 of our fencers participate in this event.  Tristan Dubin and Ian Shultis placed 18th and 20th respectively.  This was a tough tournament with competitors like Ben Igoe and Mike Etropolski participating.  Ben is currently 2nd in the country and Mike is currently 10th in the country.

Ian’s first match was easily won, but he had a tough time from there.  Ben Igoe was his second match.  Ian made a good attack in the bout, but Ben’s height advantage and experience proved too much for Ian.  Ian lost his other pool bouts and had to fence Denis Dukhvalov in his first DE.  Ian and Denis had a good match, but Denis pulled ahead in the second period to win.  Denis lost to Ben Igoe in the next DE.

Tristan also won one of his pool bouts and lost the other three.  Tristan’s matches were close and he was making some good actions.  He had a close bout against Adam Lewicki but ended up losing 5-4.  Tristan also had to fence Igor Dukhvalov and Charles Copti.  Tristan’s first DE was against “A” rated saber fencer Andrew Stetsiv.  Tristan scored 7 touches in this bout, but Andrew’s speed and experience was more than Tristan could handle that day.

All in all I would say our fencers did well.  The main goal for them at this event was to practice and that is exactly what they did.  Results can be found here.   You can also see videos from the competition on our YouTube channel.