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...last bout in the ECAC foil finals yesterday, Gene Vastola would shake his opponent's hand only after considerable persuasion from the director. As it turned out, a particularly unsportsmanlike knee to the groin (at least if it was deliberate) had provoked the Crimson skipper's unfriendliness...
...record in all dual meets is 26-4 and his 13-2 Ivy League performance has secured him the number one spot on the first team all-Ivy foil squad...
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...
...This weekend at the ECACs and then the week after at the NCAA s he will be thoroughly tested for the first time this year. 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...
With the score 13-10, foil fencer Dave Hanower fell, 5-3. Then, epee fencer Russ Kaphan, ahead 3-1 with under a minute left to fence, let his Columbia opponent gather two quick touches. After the Lion epeeman touched Kaphan in the chest to take the bout, Columbia wrapped up the victory with 5-0 and 5-2 triumphs in the last two bouts...