Ridge Fencing Places in County Championships
December 14, 2024
BASKING RIDGE, NJ – Ridge Fencing hit the ground running with the first tournament of the season held right before the holidays. The Somerset County Championships, hosted by Bernards High School, had six teams from across the county participate.
On the girls side, the foil squad (Maya Zamlynny, Yasemin Ocak, Eunice Kim) claimed 1st place. The epee squad (Ashley Maschhoff, Claire Muisener, Heidi Stefandl, Claire Zhang) took second place and the sabre squad (Alexandra Mendieta, Kaavya Padhi, Emerson Rever, Leah Stefandl, Sienna Yurkovic) took fifth place. With all weapons combined, the girls took 4th place overall.
The Ridge boys sabre squad (Tristin Orthmann, Ben Schuchman, Tadas Vilemaitis) took first place. The foil squad (Girish Arul, Siddharth Malhotra, Christopher Zheng) and the epee squad (Ethan Zhang, Jeremiah Murphy, Christian Mulry and Sidharth Burgula) both finished in 3rd place. With all combined weapons scores, this was enough to secure 1st place overall.
For the individual competition, both Ethan Zhang (epee) and Tadas Vilemaitis (sabre) had strong performances and finished in 2nd place in their respective competitions. Christopher Zheng finished in 3rd place in foil. Sophomore Maya Zamlynny defended her title from last year and once again finished as individual champion in girls foil, while Yasemin Ocak placed third in foil.
