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...Crimson fencer Bernadette Drankowski lunged forward but the point of her foil blade came up short of her opponent's neck. Rather than clearing Drankowski's blade to the side and responding with a counter-attack, Rhode Island College fencer Joleen Morinho obligingly left the point inches from her vest so that Drankowski, after a momentary pause, could push the foil forward for the touch...
...third Crimson fencer at the nationals, epeeman Robert Kaplan, took only two of nine preliminary bouts and failed to qualify for the finals. He lost numerous close bouts, 5-3 and 5-4, due, in part, to nervousness and the pressure of knowing that if he qualified, the automatic 20 points he would gather for the team might push them into...
...despite his pre-tournament fear "that I would lose every bout" against the other schools' best epeemen, Kaplan rose to the challenge. Against Drvobinsky he quickly fell behind, 3-0, but then fought back as the overconfident NYU fencer relaxed...
Kaplan's respectable showing in the best pool of epee fencers qualified him for the national championships at Wisconsin next weekend. Two other Crimson fencers, Chipman and number-one foil fencer Gene Vastola, who finished 4-8, also qualified for the nations. Vastola squeaked his way into the nationals as the 12th and final foil qualifier...
Senior Debbie Sze led the Crimson, winning nine of her 12 bouts in the preliminary rounds, then taking two of six duels in the final round to finish fifth individually. After losing her first bout in the eliminations to a fencer from the University of Maine she vanquished Yale's Ina Peacock to even her record...