Sullivan Upper Fencing Club hosted the 5th round of the 2024/25 NI Junior Foil Series on Sunday 23rd of February in the Sullivan Sports Hall. Eighteen SU fencers took part across U12, U14 and U16 age groups, 4 of whom were year 8 beginners in their first competition. In total SU fencers won 11 medals, 1 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze
U12s
Year 8s Olivia Morse and Shion Suto-Murphy both performed well, Olivia winning silver in the girls’ U12s and Shion bronze in the boys’. The other 2 beginners, Oscar Duddy and Mark Ross, although also year 8s, are placed in the U14 age group due to their birthdays being in 2012 and not 2013.
U14s
Unfortunately Mark and Oscar met in the last 16 of the U14 boys’ event. This was an epic battle, with Mark going through to the L8, narrowly defeating Oscar 15-14. He was then knocked out by Thomas Morrow, who then kept on winning right up to the final, where he put up a strong fight against the age group points leader, but lost 12-15 to take silver. William Penny, Eric Hutchinson and Flynn Woolsey-Jensen all made the quarter-finals.
Lydia Hamilton, Amy Walker and Grace Tsang were the SU representatives in the girls’ U14s. Lydia beat Grace in one semi-final, while Amy lost in the other to the U14F points leader. Lydia then lost to the same fencer in the final. These were hard fights for Amy and Lydia, against a top U14 from Dublin with international competition experience.
U16s
In the girls’ U16s Cassidy Ogle made the final, but lost there to her Dublin based rival for the U16F championship title. Cassidy still has a small championship points lead, but the title win will be decided at the next (last) round. Erin Keough made the semi-final stage to take her 4th bronze medal of the series.
Sam Snoddy put in a superb performance in the U16 boys’ event, winning his first gold medal of this year’s series. Tom Woolsey-Jensen and Adam Sugar also performed well, finishing joint 3rd. Ethan Dilworth and Patrick John both made the quarter-finals ending up 6th and 7th.
Well done all 18 SU competitors and a big thank you to the SU staff for preparing the Sports Hall for us and to all the fencer parents for their support.
Round 6, the final round of the 2024/2025 NIJFS season, will be on Sun 16th March in the SU Sports Hall.
David White
SUFC Coach
26 Feb 2025
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