Word: vastola
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...still, Vastola is a cool customer. A rather unwarranted knee, even in that particular place, would not usually ruffle him. Gene Vastola was disappointed...
...fans in the bleachers of the IAB watched intently as Ed McNamara of NYU and Rich Pantel of Princeton fought a see-saw battle. At the time--after six of eight rounds--they were the only two fencers ahead of Vastola. If--the crowd thought--Pantel beat the undefeated McNamara, Vastola could perhaps secure first or second by thrashing McNamara himself, then polishing off his last...
McNamara beat Pantel and Vastola, and then the Crimson captain lost his final bout against Cornell's Dan Budofsky. The crowd was disappointed...
...knows what might have happened had it not been for Vastola's Achilles heel? His left heel had been inflamed before last weekend's Columbia meet, and the deep bruise had been aggravated in that meet. The heel made lunging painful for Vastola and forced him to change his style...
...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...