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30 April 2011 -- Open Foil 3
Open Foil 3 was another fairly small event, continuing a trend for foil tournaments this season. HFC was represented by Conny "Con-Artist" Jolitz, Ben "Little Ben" Shiroma, and Ben "Ben, leider" Leider. After struggling initially in the pools, "Little Ben" polished off Tom McClintock 15-5 in his first DE, only to be buffed to a similar shine by JR in the following bout. The "Con-Artist" began her DEs with a bout against Chase Schreiber. Taking a very large lead in the first period, her victory was all but certain, only to be slowly überschrieben by Schreiber’s determined efforts during the rest of the bout. After revenging the Con Artist's defeat on Schreiber’s father, “Ben, leider” tripped Jacob Falls in the semifinal round and earned the chance to confront JR, against whom he maintained an early lead, winning the bout and the gold by a margin of eight points.
HFC strikes gold in Sabre but comes up short in the overall.
Our 5th annual Veterans Challenge was the best turnout ever. We had 11 in foil, 11 in epee and 7 for Sabre with 7 people competing for the Iron man Trophy. Congrats to Henry Chang(OFC) who placed in all 3 event and took first place overall and was crowned the new Iron man for 2010-2011 by Timothy Scanson(HFC), last years Iron man. Timothy finished in 2nd place overall followed by Tom McClintock(OFC) in 3rd place.
The individual event winners were
Foil: Henry Chang(OFC) earning his E10,
Sabre: Timothy Scanson(HFC) earning his E10.
Epee: Henry Chang(OFC).
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First Open Foil in the 2010-11 Season
This was a rather smaller event than usual with only 10 participants, due to some of the more regular fencers leaving for college and others being unable to attend because of scheduling conflicts.
Be that as it may, the two contestants from HFC, Ben Leider and Conny Jolitz, didn't let that spoil their day. They swept their respective pools clean and were seeded first and second before DEs - and ended up facing each other in the Final. The final result: 1.Ben Leider - 2.Conny Jolitz -3.Kerstan Park & Gyula Schreiber. Congratulations all around, way to represent the club!
Hopefully, the next events will see more of a turn out. Thanks to Mike Aiau and JR Oakley for refereeing and running the tournament.
Hawaii State Sabre Championships - 2010
HFC had two sabre fencers in what was a strong field of 11 fencers at the Open Sabre State Championships held on May 15th at the Ala Wai Golf Course.
This was Conny's first mixed sabre event and as luck would have it she drew a very tough pool with Yervand, Henry Chang, Thomas Miller and John-Rolf. Determined not to get shut out she scored at least one touch on each of her opponents and also gave T-Mac a run in the DE.
Timothy "Lucky" Scanson did well in the pools earning the number 3 seed behind Yervand and Jeff Dalli. In his first DE he went toe to toe with long time rival and friend Henry Chang. It was a tough bout but he prevailed 15-14 making it into the final four. Next up was Yervand who made short of work of "Lucky" 15-5.
Final results were 1. Jeff Dalli, 2. Yervand, tied for 3rd John-Rolf and Timothy "Lucky" Scanson.