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Sacred Heart Invitational
Owls Excite on Strip at the SHU Invitational
12.6.25 | Women's Fencing
CONNECTICUT – The Temple fencing team showed up and out on Saturday at the Sacred Heart Invitational in Fairfield, CT. The Owls had an impressive day, posting a respectable 4-1 with wins over NYU, Vassar, NJIT, and host team SHU.
MEET SUMMARY
Temple opened the day by defeating both NJIT (21-6) and Vassar (22-5). They then went on to defeat both No. 5 NYU (15-12) and SHU (22-5)
Temple concluded its day by falling to Yale (7-20).
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Temple's Foil fencers shined in Connecticut. Foilist Jara Del Cura went 10-3 on the day, including two standout matches, posting 3-0 against both NJIT and Vassar; she led all Owls with a total of 10 wins. Natalie Adams-Kim finished 4-2 overall, contributing a key 3-0 performance over NYU. Freshman Foilist Aurelie Suelter rallied to go lossless on the day, winning bouts in 1-0, 3-0, 3-0, and 1-0 to total her to 8-0 for the meet.
- Epeeist Grace Smith led the squad with an impressive 7-4 record, winning a crucial 2-0 matchup against SHU.
- Saberist Samantha Nathanson ended the day with a 5-4 record, totaling the most out of the Sabre squad.
TEMPLE 21, NJIT 6
Foil: 8-1
Epee: 6-3
Sabre: 7-2
TEMPLE 22, VASSAR 5
Foil: 9-0
Epee: 7-2
Sabre: 6-3
TEMPLE 15, NYU 12
Foil: 8-1
Epee: 4-5
Sabre: 3-6
TEMPLE 22, SHU 5
Foil: 9-0
Epee: 6-3
Sabre: 7-2
TEMPLE 7, YALE 20
Foil: 4-5
Epee: 2-7
Sabre: 1-8
Coach Salmon said of the matches: "It was an overall very good day for the team with winning contributions throughout the roster. We had to come from behind to defeat a very strong NYU team and it was good to see the team's resilience and fight. Believing in themselves and each other to the very end. The Yale meet was extremely competitive with more than half the losses handed to us were by only a single touch differential. I'm looking forward to getting back to training inspired by the lessons we learned today and preparing for the rest of the season."
UP NEXT
The Owls will ride this invitational into the New Year before competing in the USA Junior Olympics from Jan. 9- Jan. 12 in Kansas City, MO.
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