Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...round of weapons, led by double victories in foil and epee. Captain Phillippe Bennett and John Major each foiled their Bulldog blade brandishers, and Matt Simmons and John Hirschfeld easily took their epee bouts. Nick Tepe was the only saberman on target however, and that proved costly as the match wore...
...lead. But a Yale whitewash in saber turned the tide, and despite Simmons's third win of the day, and Hirschfeld's second, the handwriting was on the wall. The writing became even more legible when foiler Bennett was cut down by Ng. Major tied the match at 13 apiece, to set the stage for what one fencer termed "the best day in Danny Snyder's life." Snyder won the next bout 5-4 to give Yale the match...
Scott Mead and Ken Ehrlich moved up one notch to seven and eight, respectively, and Blake was now playing number nine in a varsity match for the national championship...
...when Harvard could forge only a 4-2 lead after the first two rounds (the team match was played in three rounds of three individual matches each), Blake's match suddenly became meaningful...
Trinity's potent squad devastated the racquetwomen, relinquishing only two games during the match...