• There were not a lot of surprised in the first round of women's foil pools at the Northeast Regional, with each of the top-15 seeds advancing to the second round of pools (24), as the fencers jockey for the Northeast's nine allocated NCAA women's foil spots.
• Only three fencers who came in seeded among the top-24 failed to match that seed in the earlygoing, as each was eliminated after the first round: #16 seed Dana Baines (Cornell; 2-4/-5 in pools, placed 26th), #17 seed Alexandra Huber (Columbia; 0-5/-13 in pools, placed 34th) and #21 seed Christine Lee (Tufts; 1-4/-8 in poolsm placed 21st).
• Four fencers seeded outside the top-24 still are alive, although none finished higher than 20th in the first round of pools: Boston College's Michelle Pintea (#32 initial seed; 3-2/-3 in pools, 20th place), Brown's Yukiko Kunitomo (#29 initial seed; 2-3/-5 in pools, 24th place), Vassar's Jacqueline Kory (#27 initial seed; 3-3 in pools/+4, 21st place), and MIT's Jenna Caldwell (#25 initial seed; 3-3/-2 in pools, 22nd place).
• It appears that two fencers from the original entrant list of 40 did not compete in the first round of pools: Brown's Francesca Bartholomew (#12) and Meredith Paul of Tufts (#36).
WOMEN'S FOIL POOL-1 RESULTS – NORTHEAST REGIONAL
1. Emily Cross (Harvard) ... 6-0 (+22) ... #2 initial seed
2. Valeria Makeeva (Yale) ... 6-0 (+18) ... #14 initial seed
3. Katherine Pitt (Yale) ... 5-0 (+15) ... #6 initial seed
4. Shelby MaCleod (Harvard) ... 5-0 (+12) ... #3 initial seed
5. Nicole Ross (Columbia) ... 5-1 (+22) ... #1 initial seed
6. Sophie Ciaravino (NYU) ... 5-1 (+14) ... #11 initial seed
7. Jessica Tranquada (Cornell) ... 4-1 (+13) ... #8 initial seed
8. Jessica Newhall (Brandeis) ... 4-1 (+10) ... #18 initial seed
9. Nora Szita (St. John's) ... 4-1 (+9) ... #7 initial seed
10. Anna Podolsky (Harvard) ... 4-1 (+9) ... #5 initial seed
11. Cordelia Link (MIT) ... 4-1 (+7) ... #10 initial seed
12. Hannah Braaten (Wellesley) ... 4-2 (+6) ... #24 initial seed
13. Rebecca Hirschfeld (Cornell) ... 4-2 (+4) ... #13 initial seed
14. Amanda Rysling (NYU) ... 3-2 (+7) ... #9 initial seed
15. Zoe Evans (NYU) ... 3-2 (+3) ... #15 initial seed
16. Abby Caparros-Janto (Columbia) ...3-2 (+2) ... #4 initial seed
17. JoAnne Siskidis (Sacred Heart) ... 3-2 (+2) ... #22 initial seed
18. Jennifer Collacino (Boston College) ... 3-2 (+2) ... #19 initial seed
19. Alanna Dunn (St. John's) ... 3-2 (+1) ... #20 initial seed
20. Michelle Pintea (Boston College) ... 3-2 (-3) ... #32 initial seed
21. Jacqueline Kory (Vassar) ... 3-3 (+4) ... #27 initial seed
22. Jenna Caldwell (MIT) ... 3-3 (-2) ... #25 initial seed
23. Jessica Davis-Heim (Brandeis) ... 2-3 (+1) ... #23 initial seed
24. Yukiko Kunitomo (Brown) ... 2-3 (-5) ... #29 initial seed
Eliminated
25. Alexandra Dalrymple (Brandeis) ... 2-4 (-5) ... #26 initial seed
26. Dana Baines (Cornell) ... 2-4 (-5) ... #16 initial seed
27. Jillian Liu (Yale) ... 1-4 (-7) ... #30 initial seed
28. Wendy Chin (Wellesley) ... 1-4 (-7) ... #31 initial seed
29. Christine Lee (Tufts) ... 1-4 (-8) ... #21 initial seed
30. Vivian Truong (Brown) ... 1-4 (-10) ... #34 initial seed
31. Lindley Graham (MIT) ... 1-4 (-11) ... #32 initial seed
32. Melissa Lee (Vassar) ... 1-5 (-14) ... #37 initial seed
33. Christina Lio (Hunter) ... 1-5 (-17) ... #39 initial seed
34. Christine Cook (Boston College) ... 0-5 (-13) ... #28 initial seed
34. Alexandra Huber (Columbia) ... 0-5 (-13) ... #17 initial seed
36. Tess Delean (Wellesley) ... 0-5 (-16) ... #35 initial seed
37. Sarah Jafferali (CCNY) ... 0-6 (-23) ... #38 initial seed
38. Sherry . Chen (CCNY) ... 0-6 (-24) ... #40 initial seed