GREAT RESULTS!!!

Veteran Men’s Épée

3 Chandler Paul BRONZE MEDAL

13 Matt Maychrowitz

20 Charles Hargrove

Vet-40 Men’s Épée

3 Chandler Paul BRONZE MEDAL

22 Sloan Ryan

Vet-50 Men’s Épée

5 Lichten Keith (top 8)

11 Matt Maychrowitz

12 Charles Hargrove

15 Kaufman Joel

17 Justin Hunter

29 Alex Rood

Vet-60 Men’s Épée

10 Lipton Michael

31 Gerard Downey

Vet-70 Men’s Épée

16 Barry Leonardini

Vet-80 Men’s Épée

5 Barry Leonardini (top 8)

19 East Bay Fencers fenced in 39 events at the Nationals and brought home 4 Medals!

Our youngest Sophia Habek became the 2023 National Champion in Y-10 Women’s Epee!

But Sophia was not the only East Bay Fencer with a visit to the podium, Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu won a bronze medal in Vet-50 Men’s Epee, Barry Leonardini  finished 5th in Vet-80 Men’s and Allen Graham finished 8th in Vet-40 Men’s Epee.

Congratulations to all EBFG fencers who trained hard for this year’s nationals. What a great ending to an incredible 2022-23 season!

(see top finishers and a list of all EBFG fencers who participated below images)

Y-10 Women’s Épée

1 Sophia Habek GOLD MEDAL and NATIONAL CHAMPION

Y-12 Women’s Épée

14 Sophia Habek (Top 16) Earn new rating E

56 Matea Chiou-Williams (Top 64)

Y-14 Women’s Épée

62 Julia Aires (Top 64)

Div I-A Women’s Épée

32 Sarah Hepler (Top 32)

Div I-A Men’s Épée

36 Kyle Yamasaki (Top 64)

Div II Women’s Épée

18 Sarah Hepler (Top 32)

Div II Men’s Épée

61 Steve Chen (Top 64)

Div III Men’s Épée

29 Karan Gupta (Top 32)

Vet-40 Men’s Épée

8 Allen Graham (Top 8)

29 Ryan Sloan (Top 32)

Vet-50 Men’s Épée

3 Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu BRONZE MEDAL

22 Andy Davis (Top 32)

24 Steve Chen (Top 32)

29 Matt Maychrowitz (Top 32)

34 Charles Hargrove (Top 64)

Vet-60 Men’s Épée

31 Gerard Downey (Top 32)

39 David Beittel (Top 64)

Vet-70 Men’s Épée

9 Solomon Weingarten (Top 16)

16 Barry Leonardini (Top 16)

Vet-80 Men’s Épée

5 Barry Leonardini (Top 8)

Veteran Team Men’s Épée

7^th place (Top 8)

Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu, Allen Graham, Charles Hargrove, Matt Maychrowitz

19^th place (Top 32)

Henry Chang, Andy Davis, Gerard Downey

23^rd place (Top 32)

Steven Chen, Ryan Sloan, Solomon Weingarten, David Beittel

February 3-6, 2023

Congratulations

Sophia Habek for winning the Gold medal in Youth 10 Women’s Epee

and make top 16 in Y12 and Y14 Women’s Epee

Matea Williams  to make top 16 in Y14 Women’s Epee and 19 place in Y12 Women’s Epee

Lucy De Neale Y12 Women’s Epee 22 place and Y14 Women’s Epee 30 place

Julia Aires Y14 Women’s Epee 21 place

Louisville, KY  January 6-9, 2023

Congratulations to all EBFG fencers who trained hard, participate, and won medals.

GREAT RESULTS!!!

Keith Lichten
for winning the Gold medal in Veterans Men’s Epee
and winning the Bronze medal in Men’s Vet 50 Epee

Solomon Weingarten
who made top 8th in Men’s Vet 70 Epee

Santa Clara, CA November 4-6, 2022

Congratulations to all EBFG fencers who trained hard, participate, and won medals.

GREAT RESULTS!!!

Y-10 Women’s Épée

Gold medal

Sophia Habek

Y-12 Women’s Épée

Sophia Habek and Matea  Chiou-Williams (top 32)

Junior Women’s Epee

Brockmann Brooke (top 32)

Junior Men’s Epee

Lio He (top 32)

Cadet Men’s Epee

Lio He (top 16)

Div I-A Women’s Épée

Chung Kim (top 16)

Div I-A Men’s Épée

Allen Graham (top 32)

Vet Women’s Épée

Lynch Kristin (top 8)

Vet Men’s Épée

Bronze Medal

Hargrove Charles

Gerard Downey

Matt Maychrowitz (top 8)

Lipton Michael (top 32)

GREAT RESULTS!!!

EBFG fencers did great at BladeRunner 20167 held on the campus of UC San Diego. BladeRunner is UCSD’S and the SD Division’s premier 6 event Open! It is also a USA Fencing Regional Open Circuit (ROC)! EBFG had fencers participate in the Junior Epee (Men and Women) and the Senior Open (Men and Women) events.

In the Men’s Senior Open, 90 fencers of all ratings participated, making this an A4 event. Top 10 EBFG finishers included Kyle Yamasaki who finished 2nd! Chloe Beittel finished in 5th in the Junior Women’s event.

2017 Battle in Seattle Division 1-A ROC 

Seventy-five fencers battled it out at this year’s Battle in Seattle. Ziad Khayat finished in 3rd place.  Kyle Yamasaki finished 6th. Paul Chandler finished 16th. 

EBFG Shines at BladeRunner 2016!

Nov. 6-7, 2016 . . . EBFG fencers did great at BladeRunner 2016. In the Men’s Senior Open top 10 EBFG finishers included Kyle Yamasaki who finished 1st! Ziad Khayat finished in 3rd place. In addition, Ziad won the Men’s Junior Epee event.

A great day for fencing and thanks to everyone who came out and participated. Click here to see the final results on askfred.net.

Great Showing by EBFG at Battle of the Bay!

SUNDAY, Sept. 9, 2016 . . . EBFG fencers did great at the third annual Battle of the Bay. Presented and run by The Bay Cup this event is now a DIV1A ROC (Regional Open Championship).

In the women’s event, thirty-eight fencers of all ratings participated, making this an A2 event. Top 10 EBFG finishers included Lindsay Kornguth who finished 3rd, Lauren Rath who finished 8th, and Natalie Hoge, who finished 10th.

In the men’s event, eighty-two fencers participated–an A4 event. Top ten finishers from EBFG included Keith Lichten (3rd), Kyle Yamasaki (6th), Thibault Philippine (7th), and Andy Faubert (9th).

In the Vet event, Barry Leonardini finished in 6th place.

A great day for fencing and thanks to everyone who came out and participated. Click here to see the final results on askfred.net.

EBFG Fencers Sweep Top Spots at A2 Rated Event

SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2016 . . . EBFG fencers swept the top 6 spots in the opening tournament of the season to be hosted at East Bay Fencer’s Gym. Thirty-nine fencers of all ratings participated in this recent Open Senior Mixed Epee event, making this an A2 event. First place honors went to Thibault Philippine who defeated Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu in a hard fought finals. Placing third, in a fence off, was Ziad Khayat. The top female honors went to Chloe Beittel, who finished 16th. A great day for fencing and thanks to everyone who came out and participated. Click here to see the final results on askfred.net.

MAY 29, 2016. . . . Congratulations to EBFG fencers for their outstanding performance in last weekend’s annual Duel d’Abdul Epee open tournament at EBFG!

EBFG made another strong stand at their home court taking Silver and Bronze, and also filling 7 of the top 10! Sandor Mandoki (Halbertstadt Fencing Club) finished first, Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu (EBFG), second and Matthias Philippine (EBFG) took third place. Other EBFG fencers in the top ten were Ziad Khayat who finished 4th, Rob Rhea 5th, Thibault Philippine 6th, Andy Faubert 7th, Paul Chandler 9th, and Kyle Yamasaki who finished 10th. Great job guys!

View the full results on AskFred.net. 

Katarzyna Trzopek fought a tough final against Hong Kong fencer Man Wai Kong, winning 12-11 to take home the gold medal in the Senior Women’s Épée event . Martina Baccari took home the bronze medal and also earned her C rating! Congratulations to the women’s team for their outstanding results.

EBFG fencers dominated the Senior C and Higher Épée event, sweeping 7 out of the top 8 places. The all East Bay podium included Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu (1st Place), Andrew Brewer (2nd Place), Kyle Yamasaki (3rd), Elani Ferri (3rd). Katarzyna Trzopek finished 5th, Orestis Herodotou finished 6th and Kevin Esnault finished 8th. An amazing victory at home! Thanks for all the hard work!

Bay Cup @ GPS: WE1
Camille Esnault – 2nd Place

Bay Cup @ HALB: CLXE1
Keith Lichten – 1st
Thibault Philippine – 2nd
Kyle Yamasaki – 3rd
Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu – 5th
Paul Chandler – 7th
Todd Russell – 8th

Bay Cup @ HALB: CLXE1
Steven Fialkowski – 3rd
Patrick Wang – 5th
Andrew Davis – 8th

Bay Cup @ TFC:  JME1
Thibault Philippine – 1st
Matthias Philippine – 2nd
Kevin Esnault – 3rd

Bay Cup @ TFC:  CHXE2
Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu – 1st
Todd Russell – 3rd
Kyle Yamasaki – 3rd
Keith Lichten – 5th
Paul Chandler – 6th
Matthias Philippine – 7th

Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu fought back to secure his gold medal against EBFG teammate Kyle Yamasaki in a thrilling 15-14 match at the climax of the senior C and higher mixed Épée event. Phil Gerring joined them on the podium taking home the bronze medal and make it an EBFG hatrick! Also finishing in the top eight, Andrew Brewer took seventh and Orestis Herodotou finished eight.

Also winning a gold medal for East Bay today was Ben Mankin in the senior C and Lower mixed Épée event, also earning a shiny new C12 rating for himself in the process!

Click here to view the complete results on askFred.net

Congrats to all EBFG fencers who competed and we hope to continue our success in the Bay Cup next season!