Queen's Men's and Women's Squash swept their first Crossover Tournament of the season, Queen's Fencing finished fourth overall at the RMC Invitational, and Queen's Water Polo hosted a NCWP tournament at the ARC pool over the weekend.

Men's Squash

The Queen's Men's and Women's Squash Teams eagerly traveled to the prestigious Mayfair Lakeshore Club in Toronto this last weekend to compete in their first crossover tournament of the season. Both teams were looking to improve their already strong records on the season and were firing to go. 

The Queen's Men's team started off the weekend with their toughest matchup against the strong, adversarial Waterloo. From the very first game the tone was set by Queen's own Salah Elsherif, who battled through a 5 game thriller where he pushed through in the end winning the final game 11-8, keeping the entire audience on the edge of their seats. It only got more intense from there as Felix Scholberg and Justin Weller also delved into the trenches of battling to 5 games, giving it everything they had. At the end of the day though, the Queen's Men showed their gritt and took the match 6-1!! The entire match took over 3 hours to complete and was a showdown for the books. 

The Queen's Men jumped right back into action following the Queen's Women against McMaster University. With a solid performance, the Men swept McMaster 7-0 thanks to Akasham Rajagopaul's and Sayeed Mavani's stellar leadership. 

The weekend tournament ended with the Queen's Men at it again against the Brock Men on Sunday morning. Logan Elder and Zachary Gill showed their consistency throughout the week with 3-0 performances to give the Queen's Men a solid victory against Brock with a final match score of 6-1!
 
Women's Squash

This weekend the Women's Squash team travelled to Toronto to compete against the Brock Badgers and Guelph Gryphons in the first Jester's Crossover of the season. The girls brought strong spirits into the weekend and it showed with 2 dominant wins.

In the first matchup against Brock, the girls prevailed with a 7-0 win and strong showings across the board. Special congratulations to Gabriella Menezes on her first tournament and win as a Gael! Coaching in between games was a big part of the weekend for the girls and Lianne Ouellette played a big role in helping the girls recover between games and get set for the next. Another shout out to the boast return queen Ava Galloway for not giving up and never letting her opponent hit a quick shot, nothing gets past Ava.

The team held strong during the second match vs Guelph with a 6-1 win.  The lineup was very even and each of the girls brought their A-game to secure many 3-0 wins. Everyone maintained their position on court and controlled many of the matches. Cheers from the Men's and Women's teams kept the spirits high and the motivation to win even stronger. Teamwork and leadership shown by the girls this weekend did not go unnoticed and was key for success. Amazing job Girls!

Congratulations as well to the Men's team on their 3 wins this weekend to make it a clean 5-0 sweep for Queen's Squash. The girls are back on the road in 2 weeks travelling to London for the second sectional of the season to face Western and University of Toronto!

Fencing



Queen's Fencing fielded 14 of the 180 teams at the 2024 RMC Invitational Team Fencing Competition and faced fencers from Ontario and Quebec along with military teams from the United States and the Netherlands. 

The Gael's best result came in Sunday's Men's Foil event where the Foil A team consisting of Cameron Hostetler Keates, Ewan Peterson, Sam Broughton, and Brogan Long finished the day in a hard-fought fourth place.

Strong results were also had in the Sabre events, with the Men's B team (Justin Bhatla, Jayson Pomfret, Jacob Phillipson, Jack Atkinson) placing 5th, narrowly edging out the Queen's A team (Luigi Burjato, Andrew Boulos, Luke Steverango, Alexandre Prefontaine) who placed 5th in the first day of competition. 

On Sunday, the Women's Sabre A team, which was comprised of Tia Gayowsky, Florella Peng, Quintyn Zuber, and Annika Kim, also placed 6th overall and the Women's C team (Emma Gardner, Aya El-Awour, Aastha Vaidhya, Shayna Sharma) had a fantastic 9th-place result.

Two Women's Foil Teams made it to the Round of 16 in the first day of the competition with Queen's Women's Foil C (Kay Taghdi, Cary Tu, Wendy Li, Tia Gayowsky) placing 15th and the A-Team comprised of Nancy Chua, Sophie Kitson, Sarah Jacobson, and Autumn Wang placed 16th after unfortunately having to eliminate the Gaels' B team.

Full results are below.

The Queen's Fencing Team takes to the road for their next competition, the Brock Open in St. Catharines on 26-27 November 2024.

Men's Epee
30th - Queen's Men's Epee B
Aiden Tinghe,  Asher Wolk, Jay Solomon, John Liu
42nd - Queen's Men's Epee A
Grayson Jeffery, Nathan Harrison, Herbert Wang

Women's Foil
15th - Queen's Women's Foil C
Kay Taghdi, Cary Tu, Wendy Li, Tia Gayowsky
16th - Queen's Women's Foil A
Nancy Chua, Sophie Kitson, Sarah Jacobson, Autumn Wang
18th - Queen's Women's Foil B
Annika Kim, Shayna Sharma, Miranda Hong, Emma Gardner

Men's Sabre
5th - Queen's Men's Sabre B
Justin Bhatla,Jayson Pomfret, Jacob Phillipson, Jack Atkinson
6th - Queen's Men's Sabre A
Luigi Burjato, Andrew Boulos, Luke Steverango, Alexandre Prefontaine

Men's Foil
4th - Queen's Men's Foil A
Cameron Hostetler Keates, Ewan Peterson, Sam Broughton, Brogan Long
23rd - Queen's Men's Foil B
Pen Murray, Luc Grenier, Jimmy Lu, Benjamin Niemi

Women's Epee
19th - Queen's Women's Epee A
Elizabeth Fullerton, Songyeon Kim, Carol Dong, Autumn Wang
21st - 19th - Queen's Women's Epee B
Lillian Liu, Sarena Sandhu, Julia Robinson, Drew Gabrielle Cuencaho

Women's Sabre
6th - Queen's Women's Sabre A
Tia Gayowsky, Florella Peng, Quintyn Zuber, Annika Kim
9th - Queen's Women's Sabre C
Emma Gardner, Aya El-Awour, Aastha Vaidhya, Shayna Sharma
18th - Queen's Women's Sabre B
Joyce Fox, Alisha Zheng, Sara Gharbaoui, Kay Taghdi

Water Polo



The men's and women's water polo teams hosted every National Collegiate Water Polo (NCWP) team at ARC on the weekend at a regional cross-over event. Both teams trying to solidify seasonal rankings heading into our late November championships, also hosted at our home pool.

The women took steps to hold a top 3 position and split the weekend 2-2, having an 11-5 win over McGill on Saturday and nail bitter 10-9 win over Ottawa Gee Gees Sunday. Other games were losses of 19-4 to UofT and 10-13 to McMaster. The team wins their seasonal series with Gee Gees (2w/1L) and McGill (1w), splits the season with Mac (1w/1L) and ends up with a single loss to UofT.

Leading the team again this weekend was captain Ally Rowe with 11 goals, including an incredible 6 against McGill Saturday night. Other scorers were Ry Kay with 7, Sophia Herrington 6, Julia Kolosov and Jessie Turcott 4 each.

The men struggled with big roster losses to illness and injury, missing half the starting line all weekend. That shortened bench really made some close matches and 2 games were decided by a single goal. A Saturday 15-16 loss to McGill was offset by an 11-10 win over Ottawa Gee Gees Sunday.  Their other weekend match was a 2-22 loss to UofT on Sunday morning.

Leading the men in scoring were Caiomyn Fitzgerald with 8 goals, 5 of which were against Ottawa at the end of the Sunday schedule. Stefan Groza with 7, Kristijan Markovski 6 and Matt LeRoux 4 were the other leaders.

Men will not know the season ranking until mid November but have won enough to be in the medal hunt when they host the finals at the end of the month.