Jan. 28, 2010
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The Notre Dame fencing teams will travel to Evanston, Ill. this weekend to participate in the Northwestern University Duals on Saturday, Jan 30 and Sunday, Jan. 31. The two-day event marks Notre Dame’s third competition of the season.
On Saturday, the Irish women will have duals against Fairleigh Dickenson, Stanford, UC San Diego, Duke, ninth-ranked Princeton, North Carolina and Johns Hopkins. For the men’s team, Saturday will involve matches versus Detroit-Mercy, Stanford, Northwestern, 10th-ranked Duke, fourth-ranked Princeton, Lawrence, third-ranked Ohio State and UC San Diego.
Then on Sunday, Notre Dame’s women’s team is scheduled to face the California Institute of Technology, seventh-ranked Temple, Lawrence, Wayne State, Detroit-Mercy, Cleveland State and sixth-ranked Ohio State. The men will fence Johns Hopkins, Cleveland State, the California Institute of Technology, Wayne State and North Carolina.
Last weekend, the Irish men’s and women’s fencing squads posted identical 6-0 records at the New York University Invitational and followed by posting 4-0 marks at the St. John’s Challenge.
Two events into the 2010 season, six Irish fencers have already broken the 20-win plateau. On the men’s side freshman James Kaull (Washington, D.C.) has posted a 22-7 record in epee, sophomore foilist Gerek Meinhardt (San Fransicso, Calif.) an impressive 20-2 mark and in sabre, junior Barron Nydam (Rancho Sante Fe, Calif.) boasts a 21-8 record on the year. The Fighting Irish women’s team has been led by epeeists Courtney Hurley (San Antonio, Texas) and Kelley Hurley (San Antonio, Texas/Earl Warren) as well as by sabreist Sarah Borrmann (Beaverton, Ore.). C. Hurley, a sophomore, has a 24-3 record while K. Hurley has a 20-9 mark. Borrmann rounds out the 20-dual winners with a record of 20-7 on the year.
To follow the Irish at the Northwestern Duals, visit und.com for daily recaps. Women’s match updates will also be available throughout the duals by accessing the women’s fencing page at www.NUsports.com.
Notes: The men’s squad now owns a 54-match winning streak dating back to the 2008 Northwestern Duals (last lost to Penn State), which is the fourth longest unbeaten streak in program history … carrying over from last season, the Irish women now own a 34-match winning streak, which is the sixth longest streak in program history … women’s sabreists Sarah Borrmann (133 wins/fourth) and Eileen Hassett (126/fifth) are quickly moving up the career women’s sabre wins list … with three wins this weekend, Kelley Hurley will enter the top-10 in women’s epee career wins (she currently has 154 wins and Ashley Shannon is 10th all-time with 157).
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