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Notre Dame & Penn State - Sunday's Closing Bouts (2011 NCAA fencing) ...

Note – CollegeFencing360 plans to tweet every score from Sunday's bouts involving ND and PSU (cf360updates) ... stay-tuned!

Contact: Pete LaFleur (editor@collegefencing360.com)

The latest installment of the Penn State vs. Notre Dame college fencing rivalry will take center stage on Sunday at Ohio State's French Fieldhouse. Notre Dame holds a tenuous six-point lead on Penn State in the team standings, with each team slated for 54 bouts on Sunday (nine each for the two entrants per team in each weapon).

One wrinkle to the drama is the fact that the Notre Dame foilists are split in separate groups ... in fact, ND freshman Rachel Beck actually is fencing in the same group with PSU teammates Doris Willette and Olga Ostatnigrosh.

Sabre fencers to keep an eye on include the opposing freshmen (ND's Lian Osier and PSU's Nicole Glon), as this is the weapon where the Irish most likely could add to their lead, based on Saturday's standings and Sunday's matchups.

In foil, both teams are led by a senior veteran (PSU's Doris Willette and ND's Hayley Reese met in the 2009 NCAA final) – with Penn State maybe having a slight edge due to sophomore Olga Ostatnigrosh's experience fencing in the 2010 NCAAs.

Notre Dame epeeist Ewa Nelip may be the deciding factor, as the two-time NCAA semifinalist managed only a 6-8 record on Saturday (dropping her to 16th place).

Assuming a hypothetical that all of Sunday's ND-PSU bouts will go to the fencers holding a higher placement after Saturday's bouts, here's how each weapon would play out:

Mar 27, 2011 7:40 AM

2011 NCAA Fencing Day-3 Team Standings (women's weapons thru 14 bouts)

Here are the full day-3 standings from the 2011 NCAA Fencing Championships (at Ohio State's French Fieldhouse). Analysis later (see earlier blog post for men's final weapon standings). 

TEAMS

PlaceSchoolTotalMSMFMEWSWFWE
1.   Notre Dame 139 33 34 23 19 11 19
2.   Pennsylvania State University 133 33 40 11 13 17 19
3.   St. John's University 123 33 10 28 17 21 14
4. T Ohio State University 114 18 17 30 16 16 17
4. T Princeton University 114 18 20 25 18 17 16
6.   Harvard University 111 24 18 23 13 19 14
7.   Pennsylvania, University of 79 24 10 21 13   11
8.   Columbia/Barnard 76 5 22 13 14 7 15
9.   Stanford University 62 13 14 23   2 10
10.   Duke University 60 11 12 20 10   7
11.   Yale University 43   22 15 3   3
12.   U.S. Air Force Academy 37 4 18 13 2    
13.   Northwestern University 34       5 15 14
14.   Sacred Heart University 27 15   12      
15.   Brown University 24 7     3 8 6
16.   Temple University 23       7 13 3
17.   Vassar College 18 12   6      
18.   Cornell University 16         16  
19.   Brandeis University 15   9 6      
20.   Wayne State University 11 11          
21.   UNC, Chapel Hill 10   5     5  
22. T Boston College 9 9          
22. T New York University 9   9        
24. T Detroit Mercy, University of 8   8        
24. T Drew University 8   8        
24. T M.I.T. 8       8    
27. T Cleveland State 7     7      
27. T U.C. San Diego 7 6       1  
29.   Hunter College 5       5    
30.   Cal Tech 2       2    


WOMEN'S FOIL - Standings After Round 4

PlaceNameSchoolVPct.TSTRInd.
1.   Doris Willette Penn State 12 0.857 65 27 +38
2.   Alexandra Kiefer Harvard 12 0.857 66 35 +31
3.   Evgeniya Kirpicheva St. John's 11 0.786 58 27 +31
4.   Dayana Sarkisova Northwestern 10 0.714 61 40 +21
5.   Alyssa Lomuscio Temple 10 0.714 56 40 +16
6.   Irina Koroleva St. John's 10 0.714 53 44 +9
7.   Eve Levin Princeton 9 0.643 58 42 +16
8.   Allison Henvick Ohio State 8 0.571 58 43 +15
9.   Hyun-Kyung Yuh Princeton 8 0.571 51 39 +12
10.   Christine McIntosh Cornell 8 0.571 55 46 +9
11.   Hayley Reese Notre Dame 8 0.571 51 44 +7
12.   Oksana Dmytruk Ohio State 8 0.571 48 42 +6
13.   April Whitney Cornell 8 0.571 53 50 +3
14.   D'Meca Homer Columbia/Barnard 7 0.500 45 47 -2
15.   Kathy Chou Harvard 7 0.500 38 42 -4
16.   Katie Williamson North Carolina 5 0.357 47 50 -3
17.   Devynn Patterson Northwestern 5 0.357 41 59 -18
18.   Kathryn Hawrot Brown 5 0.357 40 58 -18
19.   Olga Ostatnigrosh Penn State 5 0.357 37 56 -19
20.   Rachel Beck Notre Dame 3 0.214 36 59 -23
21.   Mikayla Varadi Temple 3 0.214 35 62 -27
22.   Avery Nackman Brown 3 0.214 31 59 -28
23.   Meaghan Conway Stanford 2 0.143 26 65 -39
24.   Jia Wu U.C. San Diego 1 0.071 33 66 -33

School Name No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 V TS TR Ind.
BROW   Kathryn Hawrot 1   1 1 3 V5 2       2 0 V5 V5 V5 1             2 3 V5 5  40  58  -18 
BROW   Avery Nackman 2 V5   3 1 1 V5       3 1 V5 2 1 1             1 1 1 3  31  59  -28 
COLU   D'Meca Homer 3 V5 V5   V5 2 V5       0 1 V5 1 2 2             2 V5 V5 7  45  47  -2 
CORN   April Whitney 4 V4 V4 1   4 V5 V5 V5 3 2 V3 V4 4 4 V5                   8  53  50  +3 
CORN   Christine McIntosh 5 4 V5 V5 V5   V5 3 1 V5 1 2 V5 4 V5 V5                   8  55  46  +9 
UCSD   Jia Wu 6 V5 4 2 3 0   2 4 3 2 0 2 1 4 1                   1  33  66  -33 
TEMP   Alyssa Lomuscio 7       4 V5 V5   V3 V5 V5 V5 V5       V5 0 V5       V3 3 3 10  56  40  +16 
TEMP   Mikayla Varadi 8       2 V5 V5 1   V5 2 4 4       1 0 2       0 3 1 3  35  62  -27 
UNC   Katie Williamson 9       V5 3 V5 2 4   4 V5 V5       V5 3 2       0 1 3 5  47  50  -3 
HARV   Alexandra Kiefer 10 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5 3 V5 V5   V5 V5             3 V5 V5       12  66  35  +31 
HARV   Kathy Chou 11 V5 V5 V3 1 V5 V5 2 V5 0 0   V5             1 1 0       7  38  42  -4 
STAN   Meaghan Conway 12 2 0 1 3 2 V5 0 V5 0 1 2               1 2 2       2  26  65  -39 
NW   Dayana Sarkisova 13 4 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5               V5 V5 4 2 V5 V5 V5 1       10  61  40  +21 
NW   Devynn Patterson 14 4 V5 V5 V5 1 V5             1   1 3 0 V5 1 3 2       5  41  59  -18 
ND   Hayley Reese 15 V5 V5 V5 3 3 V4             1 V4   V5 3 V5 V4 1 3       8  51  44  +7 
PSU   Olga Ostatnigrosh 16             2 V5 0       V5 V5 2   0 0 V5 3 2 0 V5 3 5  37  56  -19 
PSU   Doris Willette 17             V5 V5 V5       V5 V5 V5 V5   V5 V5 3 V5 V5 V5 2 12  65  27  +38 
ND   Rachel Beck 18             3 V5 V5       3 4 3 V5 1   2 0 1 1 3 0 3  36  59  -23 
PRIN   Hyun-Kyung Yuh 19                   V5 V4 V5 1 V5 3 3 3 V5   2 V5 V2 3 V5 8  51  39  +12 
PRIN   Eve Levin 20                   4 V5 V5 2 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5   V5 2 2 3 9  58  42  +16 
OSU   Allison Henvick 21                   4 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5 V5 3 V5 1 2   4 4 V5 8  58  43  +15 
SJU   Evgeniya Kirpicheva 22 V5 V5 V5       2 V5 V5             V5 1 V5 1 V5 V5   V5 V4 11  58  27  +31 
SJU   Irina Koroleva 23 V5 V5 3       V5 V5 V5             0 2 V5 V4 V5 V5 2   V2 10  53  44  +9 
OSU   Oksana Dmytruk 24 0 V5 3       V5 V5 V4