Irish claim ACC titles

By ANNIKA HERKO sports Writer

We’re still a fencing school. This weekend, the notre dame fencing team traveled to chestnut hill, massachusetts (home of boston college) to compete in the acc championships. Two other schools traveled to compete against the no. 1 ranked irish team, duke and north carolina. Like a traditional meet, the first day consisted of individual competitions and the second was for team competitions.

For individual competitions, the irish won first in every category. in women’s epee, junior and defending national champion Kaylin hsieh took gold, while freshman eszter muhari finished third. Graduate student miriam Grady and freshman michaela Joyce finished fourth and fifth, respectively, out of 14 competitors. in women’s foil, sophomore nicole Pustilnik finished first with junior Karina Yaroshenko, senior Paige Luong and senior Tianji Lukins finishing fourth, fifth and eighth out of fourteen. notre dame swept in women’s sabre graduate Kara Linder, sophomore Jadeyn Williams and junior atara Greenbaum took gold, silver and bronze. neve harrison also competed, finishing 14th out of 16 competitors.

The men’s team was just as dominant. For epee, freshman maruan osman-Touson placed first and freshmen Jonathan hamilton-meikle and noah silvers finished fourth and sixth out of sixteen. in foil, sophomore Philip dority took gold with freshman Paulo morais, freshman Jack oursler and freshman Jason Zhao finishing fourth, seventh and