Early bouting at today's Northeaster Regional produced one big shocker, as St. John's Standout Mykhaylo Moretsov (the #2 seed) went out early, as one of 14 fencers in the 34-fencer field who failed to advance out of the first round. Moretsov managed only a 2-4 record in the pool-1 stage (even on indicators) and finished 23rd, putting him in serious jeopardy of not making the NCAA Championships field (in one of the region's eight allocated, or even in one of the two national at-large spots for men's epee.
Four other top-20 seeds (none in the top-14) failed to be among the 20 who advanced to the second round of pools, with the others including: #15 Justin Dion (Sacred Heart; 0-5/-9), #16 Jared Shackelford (Brandeis; 2-3/-4), #17 Thomas Bell (Yale; 2-4/-7) and #20 Andrew Pintea (Brown; 1-5/-13).
Conversely, five fencers seeded 21 or higher still are alive, most notably Vassar's Brian Rouse (#30 initital seed/now 19th; 3-3/ -1 in pools) and #29 Henry Liu (Brown; #30/#16; 3-3 /+1) and Boston College's John Choi (#28/#11; 4-2/+5). The other two who crashed the second round of pools are Yale's Alexander Cohen (#24/#7; 4-1/+2) and NYU's Richmond Woodward (#22/#16; 3-3/+1).
MEN'S EPEE POOL-1 RESULTS – NORTHEAST REGIONAL
1. Benji Ungar (Harvard) ... 6-0 (+15) ... #1 initial seed
2. William Bedor (Brandeis) ... 6-0 (+13) ... #19 initial seed
3. Dwight Smith (Columbia) ... 5-0 (+12) ... #5 initial seed
4. Michael Pearce (Yale) .. 5-1 (+10) ... #4 initial seed
5. Lorenze Casertano (Columbia) ... 5-1 (+10) ... #11 initial seed
6. Max Czapanskiy (Columbia) ... 5-1 (+3) ... #6 initial seed
7. Alexander Cohen (Yale) ... 4-1 (+2) ... #24 initial seed
8. Nicholas Vomero (St. John's) ... 4-2 (+7) ... #10 initial seed
9. Matt Gethers (MIT) ... 4-2 (+6) ... #14 initial seed
10. Karl Harmenberg (Harvard) ... 4-2 (+6) ... #8 initial seed
11. John Choi (Boston College) ... 4-2 (+5) ... #28 initial seed
12. James Hawrot (Harvard) ... 4-2 (+3) ... #9 initial seed
13. Bryon Neslund (NYU) ... 3-2 (+8) ... #7 initial seed
14. Stanley Vaksman (St. John's) ... 3-3 (+7) ... #3 initial seed
15. Alex Clos (Brandeis) ... 3-3 0 (+3) ... #18 initial seed
16. Henry Liu (Brown) ... 3-3 (+1) ... #29 initial seed
16. Richmond Woodward (NYU) ... 3-3 (+1) ... #22 initial seed
18. Nich Johnson (Vassar) ... 3-3 (E) ... #12 initial seed
19. Brian Rouse (Vassar) ... 3-3 ( -1) ... #30 initial seed
20. Andrew Stanco (NYU) ... 3-3 (-2) ... #13 initial seed
Eliminated
21. Joshua Lopez (Hunter) ... 3-3 (-5) ... #33 initial seed
22. Jared Shackelford (Brandeis) ... 2-3 (-4) ... #16 initial seed
23. Mykhaylo Mokretsov (St. John's) ... 2-4 (E) ... #2 initial seed
24. Gabreil Chan (MIT) ... 2-4 (-1) ... #21 initial seed
25. David Pagliaccio (Brown) ... 2-4 (-3) ... #25 initial seed
26. Carter Chang (MIT) ... 2-4 (-4) ... #23 initial seed
27. Zach Pattison-Gordon (Vassar) ... 2-4 (-6) ... #27 initial seed
28. Thomas Bell (Yale) ... 2-4 (-7) ... #17 initial seed
29. Corin Porter (Boston College) ... 1-4 (-9) ... #25 initial seed
30. Andrew Pintea (Brown) ... 1-5 (-13) ... #20 initial seed
31. Justin Dion (Sacred Heart) ... 0-5 (-9) ... #15 original seed
32. Timothy Stein (Hunter) ... 0-6 (-13) ... #34 original seed
33. Peter Lowe (Boston College) ... 0-6 (-17) ... #31 original seed
34. Michael Quackenbush (Hunter) ... 0-6 ( -18) ... #32 original seed