ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Queen's Men Fencing team took third place in the OUA Men's Championship hosted by Brock University, February 21-22, capturing two fourth place finishes in the three individual events, and one silver medal medal in the three team relay events.
On Day Two at the 2015 OUA Men's Fencing Championships hosted by Brock University, the Carleton Ravens were crowned the OUA Champions for the sixth time in the program's history taking home the Charles Walter Trophy.The Ravens captured gold in both the Epee and Foil team events and took home the bronze in Sabre. The Toronto Varsity Blues grabbed gold in the Sabre event and bronze in Foil. Rounding out the team medals on Day Two were Queens (Epee - Silver), Ottawa (Foil - Silver), Western (Sabre - Silver) and RMC (Epee - Bronze).
In the individual results, Carleton led the way taking home three medals, including gold from Geoffrey Devaney in the Men's Foil event and silver from both Alexandre Salat (Men's Foil) and Joseph Wright (Men's Epee).
The Toronto Varsity Blues collected two medals in the Men's Sabre event from William Kinney (Gold) and Tommy Liu (Silver). Ryerson's Tikhomirov Arseni captured gold in Men's Epee event while RMC's Harrison Kelertas (Men's Epee), Ottawa's Nicholas Wagman (Men's Foil) and Western's Andrew Kennel (Men's Sabre) all took home individual bronze.
Toronto's William Kinney received the George Tully Trophy for Sportsmanship and Brock's head coach Tim Stang took home the Christian Vidosa Trophy for OUA Coach of the Year.
Fourth place finishes in the individual events were:Gavin Crowder, épeéJimmy Wintle, sabre The silver medal in the team relay event was captured by the men's épeé team:Adam Meyer, Al Quinsey, Gavin Crowder, Sebastian FaudemerMen's Epee Team
GOLD - Carleton (Costello, Valta, Wright, Zanussi)
SILVER - Queen's (Crowder, Faudemeyer, Meyer, Quinsey) BRONZE - RMC (Barrette-Bedard, English, James, Kelertas)
Men's Foil Team
GOLD - Carleton (Devaney, McCully, Mostovac, Salat)
SILVER - Ottawa (Balaganthan, Bermingham, Provencher, Wagman)
BRONZE - Toronto (Breu, Wolfgramm, Godin)
Men's Sabre Team
GOLD - Toronto (Florea, Kinney, Liu, Tham)
SILVER - Western (Johnson Steeves, Kennel, Kennel, Ngan)
BRONZE - Carleton (Tudor, Kneitz, Latchem, Phillips)
Men's Epee
GOLD - Tikhomirov Arseni (Ryerson)
SILVER - Joseph Wright (Carleton)
BRONZE - Harrison Kelertas (RMC)
Men's Foil
GOLD - Geoffrey Devaney (Carleton)
SILVER - Alexandre Salat (Carleton)
BRONZE - Nicholas Wagman (Ottawa)
Men's Sabre
GOLD - William Kinney (Toronto)
SILVER - Tommy Liu (Toronto)
BRONZE - Andrew Kennel (Western)
Major Awards
George Tully Trophy - Sportsmanship Award - William Kinney (Toronto)
Christian Vidosa Trophy - Coach of the Year - Tim Stang (Brock)
Charles Walter Trophy - Men's Foil - Geoffrey Devaney (Carleton)
Desjarlais Trophy - Men's Epee - Tikhomirov Arseni (Ryerson)
Schwende-Tully Trophy - Men's Sabre - William Kinney (Toronto)
Full results for Queen's fencers in the individual events are as follows: | Individual Foil | Individual Épeé | Individual Sabre |
Yannick Wong – 12th
Tristan Samis – 25th
Brandon Villeneuve – 27th
Henry Xie – 30th | Gavin Crowder – 4th
Al Quinsey – 6th
Adam Meyer – 7th
Nick Dyke – 30th | Jimmy Wintle – 4th
Aman Partap – 8th
Mathias Leung – 13th
Gabe Elit – 36th |
OUA Championship standings| 1 | CARLETON | 324 |
| 2 | TORONTO | 245 |
| 3 | QUEEN'S | 196 |
| 4 | WESTERN | 173 |
| 5 | RYERSON | 160 |
| 6 | RMC-CMR | 129 |
| 7 | OTTAWA | 109 |
| 8 | MCMASTER | 52 |
| 9 | TRENT | 52 |
| 10 | BROCK | 34 |
| 11 | GUELPH | 23 |
| 12 | YORK | 0 |
| 13 | LAURIER | 0 |
