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Unfortunately, Vastola's colleagues could not follow his lead. The sabre team, in particular, had trouble, taking but three of its nine fights. Mike Bierer and Rob Homer, usually two of the Crimson's most dependable fencers, each triumphed in but one of their three bouts. Their successive third-round defeats, after which Harvard trailed 8-12, left the Crimson with what turned out to be an impossible comeback fight...
...spots. Enter Tom Prewitt, making like Andy Hardy in pursuit of any young creature in a chastity belt. As Nicholas, one of two ne'er-do-well brothers intent on complicating the plot, Prewitt cuts through the lethargy of the first scenes with an energetic and mischievious performance. Michael Bierer as the blustering, bureaucratic mayor Hebble Tyson leans toward exaggeration in comparison with other characters, but his haughty huffing and sorrowful snorting lend a badly needed comic touch to scenes which would otherwise fall flat...
...Mike Bierer matched Harmenberg's epee performance with three sabre victories, while Kaplan, Hanower, Russ Kaphan, and varsity rookie Steve Biddle slashed their way to two wins apiece. Biddle overcame a one-sided thrashing at the hands of Harmenberg in his initial bout to provide crucial points in the second and third rounds...
...saber, Bierer made the finals with a 9-3 record in class II. John Chipman had a troublesome tournament in class I by dropping ten bouts. Russell Graham fenced Chipman's other two contests and was overwhelmed by his opponents. In class III Russell Ellis "did an incredible job," Major said, by thrashing to nine wins and only three defeats...
Simmons finished seventh in the individual championships, while Jennings was ninth of nine competitors. Bierer copped fifth and Major finished fourth. "They exhausted themselves in the preliminaries and couldn't do it in the finals," Zivkovic said...