The sabre round-robin has been completed at the 2009 NCAA Championships, with the following four fencers advancing to the medal round: Ohio State's Mike Momtselidze (19-4/+60), the Penn State duo of Aleksander Ochocki (19-4/+39) and Daniel Bak (18-5/+48), and St. John's super-freshman Daryl Homer (17-6/+33).
Each of the medal-rpund fencers will earn first team All-America honors, while the following fencers are the second team All-Americans: Notre Dame's Avery Zuck (17-6/+30), Penn's Jon Berkowsky (17-6/+29), Columbia's Jeff Spear (17-6/+26) and OSU's Max Stearns (16-7/+23). Rounding out the All-America honorees are third-teamers Lucas Johnson (Stanford; 14-9/+11), Barron Nydam (ND; 13-10/+6), Alejandro Rojas (SJU; 13-10/E) and Max Murphy (Stanford; 11-12/+3).
The sabre semifinals are about to start ... we will check back into the blog later.