Hungary and Russia Rack Up Wins
The U.S. Junior Women's Foil team of Lee Kiefer, Eve Levin, Margaret Lu and Nzingha Prescod took 4th place. In the opening round of the United States defeated Ukraine 41-31 on a 18-8 (10) point spread by Prescod. The U.S. then defeated the # 4 seed Italian team by scoring the decisive 45-27. In the semifinals the U.S. fell to Korea 39-29. Hungary won the junior men's team epee event of 45-40 over Italy. The Italians started the match and were leading the fight until the 7th when Böjte Szabolcs (HUN) defeated Andrea Santarelli (ITA) 7-3 to make Hungary an advantage of 3 points at 31-28.In the subsequent battle Hanzwikkel Mark kept the lead going 5-2 against Lorenzo Bruttin. The last fight was the fast pace but Italy could not make up a point in an effort to 10-9 by Gabriele Bino. The men's team USA sword Alen Hadzic, Andrew Meyers, Michael Raynes, and Jonathan Yergler lost in the first round 45-36 in Kazakhstan. The game was close until the 7th game when Ilya Krutalevich went 10-5 Hazdic cons. Raynes pushed the pace in the final battle, but was unable to cut the head of Kazakhstan as the score ended battle 11-11.Kazakhstan continued to hit # 1 in Russia 41-45 before losing 45-43 in Switzerland. The U.S. team placed 18th.
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