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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1710753834017UAAP 86 FENCING - Team picture UE-min.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="The UE fencing teams. UAAP Media"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The UE fencing teams. <em>UAAP Media</em></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA -- University of the East continues to be the dominant force in UAAP fencing, as they swept the event for the third consecutive season on Sunday at the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion in Manila.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Red Warriors&#x27; collegiate squads secured their 10th straight men&#x27;s title and third consecutive women&#x27;s tiara. These titles were the Season 86 hosts&#x27; first two championships in the collegiate level.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While the senior teams clinched their crowns on the last day of the competition, their high school teams were already assured of their titles on Saturday. They extended their championship runs to 12 on the boys&#x27; side and 10 on the girls&#x27; side.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/3/16/ue-nears-10th-straight-men-s-fencing-championship-2306"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/3/16/ue-nears-10th-straight-men-s-fencing-championship-2306">READ: UE nears 10th straight men&#x27;s fencing championship</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Masaya kasi nare-retain pa rin namin &#x27;yung championship kahit na &#x27;yung pressure talagang ... &#x27;pag malapit na &#x27;yung UAAP, talagang nape-pressure kami kasi hindi lang naman isang title &#x27;yung dinedepensahan namin, apat. At hindi lang siya basta champion, talagang dekada. &#x27;Yun din pinag-iisipan namin kung paano depensahan kasi gumagaling na lahat &#x27;yung kalaban,&quot; said head coach Amatov Canlas.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Happy naman ako na gumagaling na team at dumarami na &#x27;yung nagfe-fencing sa Pilipinas at &#x27;yung competition sa UAAP talagang tumataas,&quot; the long-time tactician added.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Competition came in the form of University of the Philippines on the women&#x27;s side, with back-to-back epee individual champion Juliana Gomez leading the way, but the eventual three-peat MVP Queen Dalmacio would not abdicate her throne and that of the whole squad as well.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dalmacio secured the sabre individual title to kickstart UE&#x27;s golden streak, which was followed by two more in foil and epee team golds.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As the team only had seven student-athletes on the roster, the 23-year-old stalwart joined the Lady Red Warriors in the title conquest in epee and foil.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/3/16/juliana-gomez-retains-epee-crown-as-up-keeps-lead-1108"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/3/16/juliana-gomez-retains-epee-crown-as-up-keeps-lead-1108">READ: Juliana Gomez retains epee crown as UP keeps lead</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dalmacio played alongside Jaymi Delos Santos, Andrea Matias, and Eytria Olarte in their 45-29 dominance against individual holder Nana Carbonell and UP in the foil team, before teaming up with Matias, Krystal Liao, and Cyrelle Schofield in their 42-37 escape of De La Salle University in the epee team final.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A similar finish was required from the now 10-peat men&#x27;s champions Red Warriors, sealing the deal in the foil team despite the challenge of De La Salle in the final.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The eventual back-to-back MVP Collei Felipe propelled the squad to the 45-31 victory over Reindelle Lacerna and the rest of the Green Fencers, securing the side&#x27;s third gold of the season following the previous day&#x27;s epee team gold and Felipe&#x27;s foil individual title.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Sobrang happy po namin kasi nung una talaga sinasabi po namin na delikado kami, medyo tinatanggap na namin na mapuputol. Pero nung nag-start yung games parang binibigay ni Lord &#x27;yung championship. So kami po, sabi namin, hindi namin sasayangin &#x27;yung opportunity na binibigay ni Lord pa sa &#x27;min po,&quot; said the 19-year-old national team standout on the five-fencer Red Warriors crew.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meanwhile, the boys&#x27; and girls&#x27; sides put the icing on the cake in their respective streak-extending title runs after claiming the final golds at stake.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The boys&#x27; foil team, composed of Brynt Gale, eventual MVP Louis Shoemaker, James Lim, and Frances Obzunar, overwhelmed University of Santo Tomas, 45-18, in a one-sided final, completing the squad&#x27;s sweep of the team events as they won epee and sabre golds the previous day.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shoemaker also secured the foil individual gold as Charles Babatio bagged the other of UE&#x27;s five golds in the division in sabre individual.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Opao Cantantan, on one side, led the charge for the girls&#x27; team as the eventual repeat top student-athlete collected two individual golds in foil and sabre in the first two days of the competition.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aubrey Fernandez completed the sweep of the individual events for the Junior Lady Warriors with the epee title, but an entirely different quartet contributed to the gold in the team event.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aurelle Obzunar and Shareen Beltran received the Rookie of the Year awards in the men&#x27;s and women&#x27;s ranks for UE, respectively.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meanwhile, UST&#x27;s Rayne Maravilla and De La Salle Zobel&#x27;s Venice Villenas secured the top rookie honors in the boys&#x27; and girls&#x27; sides, respectively.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>University of the East continues to be the dominant force in UAAP fencing, as they swept the event for the third consecutive season on Sunday at the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion in Manila.</p>

University of the East continues to be the dominant force in UAAP fencing, as they swept the event for the third consecutive season on Sunday at the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion in Manila.

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