Duke Complete Results

Drew Complete Results

The Basics
• Scores (Drew):                                                    Scores (Duke):
Johns Hopkins-17, Drew-10                                 North Carolina-15, Johns Hopkins-12
Johns Hopkins-19, Cornell-8                                Boston College-15, Johns Hopkins-12
Johns Hopkins-19, Lafayette-8                            #4 Penn State-19, Johns Hopkins-8
Johns Hopkins-16, Rutgers-11                             Air Force-16, Johns Hopkins-11
Johns Hopkins-26, TCNJ-1                                   #6 Duke-22, Johns Hopkins-5
• Location: Madison, NJ / Durham, NC
• The Short Story: After going 0-5 against a tough field of competition at the Duke Invitational, the Johns Hopkins men's fencing team rebounded with a 5-0 performance at Drew on Sunday.
 
How it Happened • Duke
• Hopkins opened the weekend with back-to-back close losses to North Carolina and Boston College. The Epee squads went 5-4 in both matches, with junior Tiger Gao clinching both wins and going a combined 5-1. In addition, senior William Snyder won four of his six bouts. The Foil squads went 6-3 in both matches with senior Solomon Polansky winning all six of his bouts. Junior Adam Katwan went 5-1 in the two matches.
• The Blue Jays then fell to the fourth-ranked Nittany Lions, with the Foil (6-3) and Epee (5-4) squads losing close rounds. Air Force then beat Hopkins with a tight sweep of all three weapons. Snyder won all three of his bouts as the Epee squad dropped a 5-4 decision. JHU wrapped up the day against host and sixth-ranked Duke in a 22-5 loss.
 
How it Happened • Drew
• The Blue Jays kicked off Sunday with a 17-10 win over Drew, with 7-2 wins by both the Sabre and Foil squads. Freshman Eryk Kokosinski and Katwan each went undefeated to lead their respective squads.
• Hopkins followed with a 19-8 win over Cornell and big wins by the Sabre (9-0) and Epee (6-3) squads. Kokosinski and freshman Paul Lam went a combined 6-0 in the Sabre. Gao, Snyder and sophomore Neel Maddineni each won two bouts for the Epee squad.
• The Blue Jays then beat the Leopards by the same score, once again getting easy wins by the Sabre (7-2) and Epee (9-0) squads. Maddineni, Gao and freshman Kyle Kennedy combined for nine wins in the Epee, while Kokosinski won all of three of his bouts to lead the Sabre team.
• Hopkins then swept all three weapons en route to the win over Rutgers. Lam and Kokosinski combined for four wins to lead the Sabre squad to a close 5-4 win. Sophomore Eashan Gupta and Gao each went unbeaten in to lead the Foil (5-4) and Epee (6-3) squads.
• JHU ended the weekend with an easy 26-1 win over TCNJ. Lam and sophomore Jake Desman each went 3-0 to lead the Sabre squad to a 9-0 win. Maddineni, Snyder and Kennedy did the same for the Epee squad. And in th Foil, it was Polansky and Gupta each winning their three bouts.
 
What it Means
• Gao finished the weekend with 194 wins, leaving him just six wins shy of becoming the eighth Epeeist in program history to earn 200 career wins.
• Snyder needs just four wins to reach 150 for his career and currently ranks 19^th in school history in Epee wins.
• Senior Brian Huang now has 141 career wins and needs nine to reach the 150-win mark. He currently ranks 23^rd in program history in career Sabre wins.
 
The Records • Sabre (43-47)
• Jake Desman • 5-3
• Brian Huang • 9-12
• Eryk Kokosinski • 15-13
• Paul Lam • 14-15
• Devin Osgood • 0-4
 
The Records • Foil (49-41)
• Jun Choi • 2-7
• Eashan Gupta • 15-12
• Adam Katwan • 14-13
• Solomon Polansky • 18-9
 
The Records • Epee (53-37)
• Tiger Gao • 17-6
• Kyle Kennedy • 7-7
• Neel Maddineni • 11-15
• William Snyder • 18-9
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to action on Sunday, February 17 as the Blue Jays travel to Newark for MACFA Round Robin at NJIT.