Franklin Rea '08 placed second overall in men's sabre when Dartmouth fencing competed in the New England Collegiate Fencing Championships at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. on Feb. 19.
Rea finished 6-2 in the finals bracket to take home silver. He was the only finalist to beat the eventual winner Igor Kopylov, a freshman at MIT. The first-to-five match was tied 4-4, when Rea placed a quick touch on Kopylov's wrist to win.
Ranked as the second-best fencer on his team's sabre squad, Rea was Dartmouth's B strip. The top three B-strip fencers advance to the finals bracket with the best five A's and the C-strip champion. Rea finished 10-2 in preliminaries to seize the second B-strip spot in the finals.
Dartmouth's A-strip fencer on the sabre squad, Ned Schneider '06, did not make it to the finals after narrowly after missing a top-five placement in the preliminaries.
"[Ned] is ostensibly a better fencer than I am," Rea said, "He gave me great advice between the matches."
The tournament squared Dartmouth fencers against both club and varsity squads from other New England schools. There were 15 women's and 13 men's teams competing.
As a squad Dartmouth placed eighth in men's sabre, the team's highest placement at Wellesley. The women's best finish was ninth in foil squad.
Dartmouth club hockey extended its winning streak to eight games after a tight 5-4 victory over Vermont at Thompson Arena on Feb. 19.
Maxime Guimond '06 scored the game-winning goal late in the third period. Guimond also tallied an assist earlier in the period for feeding Jamal Sabky '09. Sabky's goal tied the score at 3-3. Dave Thompson '06 had an assist and scored two goals. Co-captain Russell Daiber '06 contributed with an assist of his own.
Co-captain and goalie Chuck Rosenwasser '06 had 30 saves in the game.
The win improves Dartmouth's record to 10-1. The clubbers will conclude the season at Wesleyan on Friday.
The men's club volleyball team rounded out the week's club action on Saturday, completing its winter season at the second roud of Divisionals competition at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. The team played to a disappointing 1-3 mark, sandwiching a 25-15, 25-11 thrashing of MIT between losses to Tufts (25-22, 25-20), Boston University (25-23, 25-23) and Boston College (25-15, 25-23).
