St. John's freshman Daryl Homer defeated Ohio State senior Mike Momtselidze in the first men's sabre semifinal (15-10) while another freshman, Aleksander Ochocki held off his Penn State teammate Daniel Bak (the '08 NCAA runner-up) in the other spirited semifinal (15-13). Bak scored four straight points to force a 12-12 tie, but Ochocki (who never trailed) closed out the win over his fellow Nittany Lion.
CollegeFencing360 editor Pete LaFleur is on-site and doing some big-time multi-tasking, with blog entries, photographs, video, text-messages, etc. CF360 has plenty of visual material (photos, videos) archived from the past two days and will be posting some later tonight.
Also, we are receiving some great help from various fencers at the venue – allowing us to track the flow of the scores (with some details on scoring actions) for the semifinal and final bouts.