** pre-Regional seeding information has been added to this page (analysis to follow Monday night)**
Note – CF360 still hoping to get full results, pool grids, bout scores, etc. (should have by later Monday)
Penn State senior men's sabreist Daniel Bak (left) captured the 2010 Mid-Atlantic/South Regional title.
The Mid-Atlantic/South Region receives six automatic men's sabre spots into the NCAA Championship (March 25-28, at Harvard), with a maximum of two per team. The qualification formula is based on two elements: pre-regional seeding factor (40%) and placement/finish at the Regional (60%). The NCAA round-robin format will include 24 total fencers in each weapon, as qualified from the four regions. There also are two total at-large spots in each weapon, comprising a portion of the 24-fencer fields (again, each team still is limited to two total entrants in each weapon).
Also of note: if a team has more than two fencers falling within the regional qualification standard (i.e. top-6 for most of the weapons in the Mid-Atlantic/South), the coach can select which fencers will comprise the two NCAA entrants.
The MA/S Region's six automatic men's sabre representatives are expected (unofficially) to include Penn's State's Daniel Bak and Alex Ochocki and Princeton's Thomas Abend and John Stogin (plus two others, likely Duke's Anthony Lin and Penn's Evan Prochniak). ... here is some partial men's sabre data for the M-A/S Regional (hopefully more to come):
NCAA 2010 MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH REGIONAL – MEN'S SABRE
(Saturday, March 13 ... Madison, N.J./Drew University ... partial results)
1 – Daniel Bak (Penn State ... sr. ... Franklin Lakes, NJ ... #1 seed)
2 – Anthony Lin (Duke ... fr. ... Portland, OR ... #5 seed)
3 – Evan Prochniak (Penn ... fr. ... Hudson, NH ... #3 seed)
4 – Alex Ochocki (Penn State ... so. ... Clark, NJ ... #2 seed)
5 – Thomas Abend (Princeton ... sr. ... Carlisle, MA ... #4 seed)
6 – Kevin Ziechmann (North Carolina ... jr. ... Charlotte, NC ... #8 seed)
7 – Dzmitry Lamianski (Stevens Tech ... so. ... Minsk, Belarus ... #10 seed)
8 – John Stogin (Princeton ... jr. ... Wilmette, IL ... #7 seed)
9 – Aaron Ruby (Haverford ... so. ... Silver Spring, MD ... #13 seed)
10 – Bobby Thompson (Penn State ... so. ... Portland, OR ... #6 seed)
11 – Max Wieder (Johns Hopkins ... jr. ... Westfield, NJ ... #14 seed)
12 – David Winer (North Carolina ... jr. ... Wyckoff, NJ ... #11 seed)
others posted
17 – David Eitel (Duke ... sr. ... Lloyd Harbor, NY ... #12 seed)