MEN BANISHED

By Joe Delarande

"Many men tried and
many men died". Well, not
necessarily died, but
definitely banished as the
UNBC FREE-BLADES
Fencing, Club held their first
tournament on the weekend
of Dec 3/94.

The Free-Blades_ club,

which has met only on 6 .

other occassions, ended this
semester with a tournament.
Of 15 or so fencers, 9 wre
able to take part in this
gruelling event destined to go
down in history as not only

UNBC's and the Free-Blades
first (of many) but also as one
‘fencer's most humiliating
moment.

The tournament format
included a round robin
seating event and a modified
double knockout event. Two
round robin pools (A and B)
were duelled with 5 and 4
fencers respectively in each
block. Mark Kissinger
emerged undefeated through
the B-block while rookie
Ryan Schroeder was the
winner of the A. Ryan, along
with. Brad Koroluk and

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Nicola Swanney, all had
records of 3 wins and 1 loss
but Ryan only allowed
himself to be hit 7 times
compared to Brad (9) and

Nicola (10). .
The double knock-out
division saw the young

upstart Ryan fall out of the A-
side to the B whole Nicola
battled her way undefeated
and relatively unchallenged
through the A-side. Ryan
was able to defeat fellow
rookie Derek McNulty (who
fell to the relentless blade of
Nicola in the A final) in the B

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final. Ryan then went on to
bout against the veteran blade
of Nicola in the tournament
finale. Although Ryan would
have to defeat Nicola twice in
order to win, Nicola pounded
the young upstart into
submission in one bout by a
score of 5 to 4 thus proving
feminine superiority over all
men (fencers).

Congratulations Nicola
and all the other fencers who
took part in the event and let's
hope it gets bigger and better
in the future.

The club will _be

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recruiting new members in
the next semester and invite,
rather challenge, anyone to
take up the blade. Look for
signs in the new year.

May the Best MAN WIN

Nomination papers
available for
positions on
Association
government. These and criteria
for candidacy may be picked
up from Room

7-234 or phone 6427 or leave a
message at
saper000.ugrad.unbc.edu.
Nominations close January 12
at 4:00pm. Elections January
19. There

Director's

the Student

will be an introduction of
candidates Jan. 13 and an all

candidates forum

Jan. 16. Places for these will
be posted in January. Look
for the

StudentAssociation
information at orientation Jan
5-7. Help is badly

needed to organize and run the
election and other related
activities. Contact the
association at any of the above:

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