Noah had quite the day today. Many ups and downs in a fun day of fencing.
Today's event was the Y10 epee competition. Almost all of the nation's top Y10 fencers were participating in this national competition. As a result, Noah's initial seed was #10.
He had a great pool round, winning five of six bouts, including a defeat of the number one seed. He earned the number seven seed in the direct elimination tableau. After a bye in the first round, he easily won his first DE, 5-1, 5-1. In his next bout he faced a very strong fencer from Peru. Noah lost the first encounter, but came from behind to win the second encounter 5-4. The final encounter was close all the way. Finally, tied 4-4 Noah's opponent scored the winning touch.
Noah placed 10th in this national tournament.
