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Marshall Places Seventh in the Epee at the NCAA Midwest Regional Qualifiers

Marshall Places Seventh in the Epee at the NCAA Midwest Regional Qualifiers
Posted: Mar 13, 2011

March 13, 2011

Contact: Dan Carr

DETROIT, Mich. - John Marshall placed seventh in the epee class while Patrick Weber took 11th at the 2011 NCAA Midwest Regional Qualifiers, the last fencing event on the schedule for CSU before the NCAA Championships.

"A few of our guys struggled on the day, but I think John did enough to qualify for the NCAA's," Tulleners said. "We faced some very tough competition today, and I thought that, overall, we performed well."

The regional qualifier results make up 60% of the criteria for qualification to the NCAA Fencing Championships, which will be held in Columbus, Ohio from March 24-27. The other 40% consists of season results. The qualifiers for this year's NCAA championships will be announced on Tuesday (March 15).

Marshall finished with seven wins on the day. In the first group round he defeated Kristian Boyadzhiev of Ohio State (5-4), Notre Dame's Greg Schoolcraft (5-2) and Matthew DeStasio from Lawrence (4-1) to finish 3-3 in pool competition.

That mark was good enough to qualify Marshall for the second round of competition where the senior won four more matches. He swept Ohio State's Eric Gurnowski (5-0), edged Jacob Osborne of Notre Dame (5-4) and won 5-4 matches against Tim Nelson (Detroit) and Daniel Tafoya (Ohio State).

Weber went 2-4 in his only group round of the day. He defeated Gurnowski, 5-4, and won a 5-2 decision over Nelson. Weber also won four bouts in the play-in round to qualify for the first group pool.

CSU's Salih Yasun also competed in the epee, but missed the cut from the play-in round, going 2-3 with wins over Weber (5-4) and Cole Golke of Detroit (5-3).

"We saw Salih go out a little earlier than expected, and Patrick also didn't finish quite where I thought he would," Tulleners said. "But, overall, I thought they did a good job fencing against the strongest field of competition they've seen all season."

Also fencing for CSU were Tom Bienvenu and Bryan Twichell in the saber division. Bienvenu went 1-4 in the first group round and just missed the cut for the second round. He defeated Alex Chee of Lawrence, 5-4.

Twichell was 0-5 in his only round of competition, with his best performance of the day coming in a 5-3 loss to Ohio State's Nick Kotz.