Queen's Fencing came away with some hardware in Ottawa, Ont. this past weekend, while Queen's Women's and Men's Squash competed in the final tournament of the Jesters League before OUA Championships.

Queen's Fencing

Fourteen Queen's Fencing teams participated in six events at the 2024 Carleton Team Invitational held 13-14 January 2024 in Ottawa. Queen's Fencers took home medals in half of the events, earning gold and silver in sabre, and bronze in foil.

On Saturday, in a thrilling final match, the Queen's Men's Sabre A team comprised of Filbert Yung, Luke Steverango, Luigi Burjato, and Alex Barber defeated Carleton 45-43 to secure Gold on Saturday. 

Also on the first day of competition, the Queen's Men's Foil A team of Sam James Broughton, Cameron Hostetler Keates, Ewan Peterson, and Daniel Rastin handily defeated Western in to take third place overall and winning the Bronze medals.

In Sunday's last event, Queen's Women's Sabre A team featuring Tatiana Gayowsky, Kirstin Lang, Joyce Lyn Fox, and Quintyn Zuber earned the Silver medals in a hard fought match against Western.
 
Other strong finishes for Queen's on the weekend include the Women's Epee A team (Charlotte Reed, Kaitlyn Rea, Sakura Fanghui Liu, Songyeon Kim) who came fourth overall, with the Women's Epee B team (Yashia Allen, Elizabeth Fullerton, Carol Qingyi Dong, Autumn Xinyi Wang) coming ninth; the Men's Epee A Team (Daniel Peizhen Li, Sean Ce Liang, Nathan Harrison, Adrian Yip) had a ninth place finish and the Women's Foil (Hannah Bryan, Sophie Kitson, Shayna Sharma, Annika Kim) placed 10th overall; and the Women's Sabre B team (Emma Gardner, Aliyah Russo, Aastha Vaidhya with Catherine Yi) ending the day in seventh place. 
 
Queen's Fencers competed next at the Women's OUA Championships being hosted by the University of Toronto on February 10-11,  2024.

Queen's Women's Squash
 

Queen's Women's Squash co-hosted the final tournament of the Jesters League this past weekend alongside Queen's Men's Squash. Flexibility was the key to the weekend with dicey travel across Ontario and Quebec.

Rookie Julia Nash built the team spirit early on Saturday by painting tricolour flags on the faces of players and coaches.

The Gaels met Western for the first time this season and handily swept the Mustangs 7 to love. On Sunday morning, the same result repeated vs. Laurier. On Sunday afternoon, the women had an opportunity to play an exhibition match using eight players against McGill. The Gaels played some brilliant squash and won 7-1. It was a great way to cap the weekend off.
 

Queen's Men's Squash

Queen's Men's Squash participated this past weekend in the second Crossover tournament of the season in the Jesters University Squash League. The tournament was hosted by Queen's with ten teams participating.

Queen's first played Western on Saturday and lost that encounter by five matches to two. Despite the overall loss, all the matches were keenly contested and the two victories were a notable achievement. This was followed by a 7-0 win over Laurier. On Sunday, Queen's played Guelph and came away with a 5-2 win.

The standout for Queen's was Akasham Rajagopaul, who came to Queen's to study medicine following a stellar squash career at Western.

The Gaels will finish the season with the OUA Squash Championships to be held at the Whites Oaks Spa and Resort in St. Catherines, February 9-11, 2024.