NEW YORK, NY (February 8, 2013) -- The Vassar College men's fencing team had a challenging pair of dual matches at New York University on Thursday evening. The Brewers lost to both NYU and Columbia, but the sabre squad had 4 wins against NYU and the foil squad had a 6-3 squad victory against Columbia.

Individual performers of note at the meet were John Arden (4-2) in sabre, Tavish Pegram (3-3) in epee, and Tre Artis (3-3) and Giovanni Zaccheo (2-2) in foil.

Vassar 7, NYU 20
Alex Vastola picked up one foil win and Tavish Pegram two epee wins in this round. The other four Vassar wins came from sabre: two from Arden and one each from Kenny Lee and Zach Wilson for a close 4-5 squad loss.

Vassar 10, Columbia 17
Columbia was resting some of its starters to keep them fresh for the Ivy Championships this coming weekend, but the fencers they went with were very strong.  Arden managed another two sabre wins. Prgram added another win at epee and was joined by squad mate Bobby Maiocco in that category. The Vassar foil squad built a 6-3 squad victory behind an inspiring 3-0 run by Tre Artis and 2-1 round from Zaccheo.

Now 11-15 on the season, the Vassar men next compete at Brandeis on Saturday, February 23 in the NEIFC Championships.