St. Albans' club fencers carry away Bronze, Silver, and Gold

St. Albans Fencing Club Medal Tally:-
Gold Medal and Trophy - Nick Cockburn
Silver Medal - Vince Keane
Ladies Foil Bronze - Helen Quillin

An excellent weekend of fencing took place within the impressive sports facilities at Rickmansworth Masonic School. Representing St. Albans were Nick Cockburn, Roger Bartlett, Vince Keane and Helen Quillin in the Novice Foil competition. James Lee took part in the senior foil. John Halley and Chris Davies competed at Epée on Day 2.

NOVICE FOIL
A strong line-up of novice foil fencers crossed swords in three seeding pools. Vince and Nick came through undefeated with Roger losing just the one bout to Vince. Helen had a good victory to her name in a tough pool. Nick, Vince and Roger cruised through their first Direct Elimination fights. Unfortunately for St. Albans, Roger and Vince were drawn against each other in the next DE and Vince emerged victorious.
Both Vince and Nick fenced their way successfully through two further rounds to meet each other in the final.
The final proved to be an exhausting battle between two equally matched opponents. Nick narrowly edged the final by the closest of margins, 15-14!

Note to Phil: the Trophy is now available for the Club Trophy Cabinet!

In the Womens Novice Foil, Helen managed one victory and two narrow defeats in the 'barrage'. An excellent bronze medal winning performance for her first county championships.

SENIOR FOIL
James Lee progressed through a tough seeding pool with 3 victories to his name before being defeated in the Direct Eliminators. The standard of fencing was very high with Jonathan Weeks, a highly competent foil fencer flick-hitting his way to gold.

EPÉE
Chris Davies and John Halley were drawn in separate Epée seeding pools. Both came through with two victories. Chris won his first DE fight against Sinead from Herts Uni while John sat the first DE out. Chris and John then bowed out in titanic fights against Liam and Jason (Jason only just beating John 15-12). They could both hold their heads high as their victors went on to thrash out the final with Jason Fox emerging as champion. Well done to all that represented St. Albans and shared in our excellent success.

The Herts County Team Foil takes place in April…let's go for more medals!

Full results can be found at the Herts Fencing Association site.