This team event saw 3 university of Worcester fencers fence 3 university of Bristol fencers, first to 45 points in all 3 weapons.
6/3/17 Worcester Vs Bristol University 2nd team
This team event saw 3 university of Worcester fencers fence 3 university of Bristol fencers, first to 45 points in all 3 weapons. The friendly started with foil, of which none of the Worcester fencers fence and saw 2 of our fencers hold a foil for the first time. However we soon held the lead which we held throughout the match and finished 45-31.
Sabre was the second weapon. Bristol Uni had the advantage here with 2 sabures, vs our 1. This match consisted of Maarja and Yassena trying to maintain and get some points, and it was Sophie’s job to make up the missing points and take the lead once again. This was a very close match which came down to the last bout. Sophie came on to the piest with a 3 point disadvantage 37-40. She was facing their best sabruer. Sophie soon started making up the points however this match was taken right to the end with 44-44, it was down to the final point, in which Sophie was able to hold her nerve and gained the point to take the win for University of Worcester.
After 2 victories Worcester had already won the friendly but we carried on with Epee anyway. This saw, Maarja, Yassena and Vilma face 3 Bristol fencers. Vilma took an early lead finishing the first bout 5-0 to us, this lead was maintained and grew throughout the match and eventual the match was finished by Maarja and the university of Worcester took a huge lead 45-19.
This was an excellent event which saw the university of Worcester beat Bristol 2nds in all three weapons with 2 huge wins.