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...scurried around after the end of the ECAC s collecting equipment, taking apart the six fencing strips and transforming the basketball floor of the IAB back into its original state. He seemed completely immersed in his work. But when asked about the performance of 1979's top Ivy foil fencer, he said, "Gene fenced well, but I really expected he would take this championship. This was his year." Ben Zivkovic was disappointed...
...just wasn't himself. He wasn't the same fencer who won 26 of 30 dual meet bouts. Because of the pain in his heel, Vastola, especially in the early rounds of the finals, spent his time reacting rather than forcing reaction. "I tried to be defensive and use counter-attacks. You can't do that against good fencers. You're playing a cat-and-mouse game and preying on their mistakes," he said...
Even when an questionable call mars a bout at a critical point, Vastola, practicing what he preaches, manages to keep his lid on. "A good fencer should be like a horse with blinkers, concentrating on the fencing, not the director...
Vastola has spent very little time searching on his knees this year. In fact, he has brought a couple of fencing giants to their knees on his victory rampages in the East. A couple of months ago he crushed the number-three-ranked foil fencer in the country, MIT's Mark Smith, 5-2, in a local tournament...
...Although he may have suffered from the infrequency of his battles with topnotch competition so far this season, Zivkovic still regards him as the foil favorite in the Easterns. "I'm pretty sure every other school is thinking about Gino, thinking that this is the year the number one fencer comes from this school...