EWING, N.J. - The Lafayette Men's Fencing team tuned up for the MACFA Championships with a successful Saturday round-robin event hosted by The College of New Jersey.

The Leopards emerged with a 3-2 record on the day with wins over Rowan (20-7), Rutgers (22-5) and the host Lions (23-3). Head coach Gregory Rupp's squad also had impressive performances in narrow losses to Cornell (14-13) and Drew (16-11).

Individually, sophomore Yiwen Cui ran the table with a 15-0 record in foil. Overall, the Foil unit all emerged with winning records as Bora Mutis went 14-1 and William McAlpine 8-7. Lafayette only had a pair compete in Sabre but that duo dominated as Patrick Rekieta matched Mutis at 14-1 and was followed closely by Ian Miller at 12-3. Rounding out the performance in Epee were Jonathan Rosenblum at 11-5, Grahame Ung at 9-6 and Sean FitzGibbon at 7-8.

Next up for the Lafayette men is the penultimate competition of the season on March 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association Championship hosted by Drew University in the Rangers' Simon Forum.  

The season will conclude the following weekend with the NCAA Regionals hosted by Duke University and the NCAA Championships March 19-22, 2019 in Detroit, for those who qualify.