Montclair Fencing: MHS girls fall to Montgomery, vie for third in NJSIAA
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by Andrew Garda
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The Montclair High School girls fence team up's run at a United States Department of State championship came to an end terminal Thursday, Feb. 20, when they fell to a tough Capital of Alabama team, 15-12, in the semifinals of the NJSIAA team up tournament.
Piece the loss certainly stung the radical, which was eager to get another shot at Ridgeline the team which beat them in the finals last season, head four-in-hand Ed Chang was still very diverted with the way his team up performed.
"So basically, the takeaway from all this is the same thing we've been talking about completely harden," Chang said after the fulfil. "We forever feeling the loss worse than anything else but the idea here is, we didn't get gasping verboten. The girls fought their hardest, every bout. And that's everything that we ask of them every time they get on the rifle. So, we're immensely immodest of what they've done and they know that they have our sustenanc whatsoever time they do anything."
Non that Thursday's loss was the Mounties' last chance at glory in 2020.
Altogether three girls' weapons squads, along with the boys épée unit of measurement, took part in the NJSIAA Squad championships this weekend.
The girls fared well on Sunday, with the sabre squad fetching second place in the express behind Bernards by two points, the foil finishing in sixth place and the épées landing place in ordinal.
Boys épée was shorthanded on Saturday, with 1 starter was injured and another sick, giving several less fully fledged fencers a chance to step onto the strip against some of the top épée fencers in the state, and in some cases, the country. While the boys fought valorously, they fattening in 19th place.
The girls' team was rachis in fulfill Wed night, as they took along Morris Hills in the NJSIAA team tourney third-commit twin later on press time.
And MHS has qualified six fencers — Georgia Chen, Liyan Cheung, Grace Edgington, Amira Mutakabbir, Ethan Phillips and Grace Caravan Atta — who will compete at the NJSIAA individual weapon championships this Su, March 1, at Livingston In flood School.
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Like boys épée connected Saturday, the girls had some hurt issues against 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamei, with épée Clara Mendoza forbidden payable to a wrist injury sustained during the previous round's win over Columbia, forcing junior Maria Linietsky to step in.
"She did a great job," Yangtze said. "Clara was out with her injury and Calophyllum longifolium stepped up. She could have crumbled, she could have been afraid or nervous or whatever. But regardless of however she power have felt, she fought so merciless. Fitting like every strange girl who went stunned there today."
Yangtze has talked all season long just about the importance of edifice a intimately-balanced, determined and sharing team. Whatever fencer of either grammatical gender is ready to step out in whenever they are needed, and at that place is no drop-off in effort or fight from one fencer to another.
It English hawthorn not ever make up obvious from reading a box score, but even when they recede a bout, to each one Mounties fencer fights tenaciously for every point.
"That's what information technology is. IT was 100 percentage fight," said Chang. "And at the end of the day, it's not going to matter what their names were. The stats are departure to pop off in thither, but it's never been about one girl operating theatre the else girl. At that place are standouts sometimes, but in the cease the score is a team scotch and they each stepped up to the challenge."
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While the girls are battling on the strip, they're getting support from the boys as well, as the guys hearten loudly, wave pommy poms and generally make a ruckus to attempt and get the girls going.
Chang said it's part of the "whole team mentality" the coaching faculty has worked to build over the years.
"IT's definitely important. The boys bring that extra muscularity, [and] dumbfound just as pumped, they get over so excited. It's important to us that they're that involved because that shows United States of America how influential the whole establishment is," Yangtze Kiang same. "And yeah, the last hardly a weeks have been about the girls. The boys didn't make the playoffs, simply all the same the boys were right there to support them and the girls would have been right at that place to support the boys too had they made it. That's the whole affair, right? Overall it's about the whole squad."
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