Blue Jays Finish Fourth In MACFA Championship :: Hopkins finished with 74 victories. Drwe won the title with 95 victories.

Blue Jays Finish Fourth In MACFA Championship

Hopkins finished with 74 victories. Drwe won the title with 95 victories.

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March 13, 2002

Baltimore, MD - The Johns Hopkins men's fencing team finished in fourth place with 74 victories in the MACFA Championships held March 3.

Drew won the title with 95 victories, followed by William & Mary (84) and Cornell (75).

Sophomore Matt Bouloubasis (Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park) went 12-1 to lead the Blue Jays' epee squad to a fourth place finish. Junior Dave Kotlyar (Holland, PA/Council Rock) finished 9-4 and freshman Alex Sinofsky (Montclair, NJ/Montclair) went 6-7 as the epee team compiled 27 wins.

The Hopkins foil squad finished second with 29 wins, led by freshman Brian Bishe' (Glen Ridge, NJ/Montclair Kimberley Academy) who went 11-2. Junior Daniel Frank (Mamaroneck, NY/Mamaroneck) and sophomore Emanuel Strauss (New York, NY/U.N. International School) each went 9-4 in the foil.

Senior Ryan Schwerzmann (Watertown, NY/Watertown) and freshman Sampreet Niyogi (Voorhees, NJ/The Lawrenceville School) each had a 7-5 mark, while freshman James Chen (Boston, MA/Lawrenceville School) went 4-8 as the sabre team finished eighth with 18 victories.

In the individual results, Bishe' went 9-0 to win the foil, Bouloubasis went 7-2 in the epee, and Schwerzmann went 3-6 in the sabre.

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