GCHS Fencing team competes in quarterfinals

By virtue of its regular season fourth place finish, the Men’s Varsity Fencing team moved on to hosting Oyster Bay in the Nassau County quarter finals. Unfortunately, a difficult loss brought the rebuilding season to an end. Trey Plastaras kept his high school season unbeaten streak intake ending the season 31-0. Additional wins were turned in by Pat Bohn, Stephen Cowie, and Eric Hartmann. The gentlemen would like to thank the ladies team for coming out to support them and cheering them on. Additional post season honors and accolades were earned by six GCHS varsity fencers. Epee senior co-captain Louis Rivera, foil co-captains senior Eric Hartmann and sophomore Trey Plastaras, and saber captain senior Pat Bohn, captain junior Julia Cherchever, junior Marga Santos and sophomore Matteo Shettino were invited to partic- ipate in the Nassau Individual County Championships. Although the selection criteria was tightened and reduced this year, the fencers were still invited based on their season average win percentage with invites going to the very top fencers on each weapon in Men’s and Women’s categories in the county. Congratulations to all who received an invitation. Much like the changes to selection, the tournament format was altered. All fencers were included in one pool with the top eight moving on to direct elimination. This new format highlighted the extraordinary skill and talent level of all the fencers at the tournament. To quote Trey Plastaras,”it was like fencing in a USA Fencing Regional competition instead of a high school meet.” Our GC fencers finished as follows: 4th place men’s foil Trey Plastaras, sixth place women’s saber

Marga Santos, sixth place tie men’s saber Matteo Shettino, ninth place men’s saber Pat Bohn, eleventh place men’s foil Eric Hartmann and men’s epee Louis Rivera. The fencers would like to thank their teammates for attend- ing the event and supporting them. At the meet were Olivia Allsbrook, Henry Conlon, Connor Davan, and Will Stone. Fencers were also named to All County teams based on season win percentage and season end standings