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Nina Sayles Leads Brandeis With Silver Medal at New England Fall Regional

Nina Sayles Leads Brandeis With Silver Medal at New England Fall Regional

From Brandeis University Athletics

Senior Nina Sayles earned a silver medal at the 2016 New England Fall Collegiate Invitational.

Sayles had her best and the team's best performance on the weekend. In pool play, she went 6-0 and out-touched her opponents by a 30-6 margin to earn the second seed in the direct elimination round. After a 15-0 shutout in the second round against a foe from Vassar, she defeated Nicole Kogan of MIT, 15-12, in the round of 16. She took out BU's Caroline Foster, 15-9, in the quarters and edged BC's Laura Donovan, 15-14, in the semis before falling in the gold-medal match to top-seeded Katherine Mentzer of Dartmouth, 15-7.

In women's foil action, rookie Jessica Gets (Morganville, N.J. / Marlborough) and sophomore Joanne Carminucci (Brewster, NY / North Salem) each reached the final eight. Gets went 5-0 in pool play and seeded seventh, while Carminucci, at 5-1, was the 13th seed. Gets defeated foes from Dartmouth in the first two rounds before knocking off Bailey Partridge of SHU to advance to the quarters, where she dropped a 15-9 decision to eventual champ Jessica Li of MIT. Carminucci breezed into the round of 16, where she knocked off the fourth seed from Brown, Ebba Brunnstrom, before being edged by silver medalist Clarissa Allen, also from Brown, 15-14, in the quarters.

In women's epee, junior Liz Feller (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. / Hendrick Hudson)defeated her six opponents by a combined score of 29-10 in pool play to earn the fourth seed in direct elimination. She bageled a foe from Dartmouth in the first round and defeated classmate Savannah Bishop (Alexandria, Va./West Potomac) in the second, 15-8. After a 15-6 win over Jennifer Lamy of Mount Holyoke, she dropped a quarterfinal match against MIT's Taiylor Nunn, who finished in second place. Rookie Dakota Levy(Merion Station, Pa./Barrack) won just two matches in pool play, but defeated two higher seeds in the direct elimination, including the 10th seed from Dartmouth, 10-7, in the second round.