CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – In their final regular-season dual meets of the 2025-26 season, the Brandeis University fencing teams contested the delayed Northeast Fencing Conference championships at Boston College, a meet originally scheduled for January at Wellesley. The Brandeis men went 2-3 at the meet to finish 13-21 overall this season, while the women were 3-4 to finish up at 10-24.

RESULTS

WOMEN Wellesley 16, Brandeis 11 Brandeis 21, Sacred Heart 6 Brandeis 24, Wheaton 3 Brown 17, Brandeis 10 BC 17, Brandeis 10 MIT 18, Brandeis 9 Brandeis 17, Vassar 10

MEN Sacred Heart 16, Brandeis 11 Brandeis 21, Wheaton 6 BC 18, Brandeis 9 MIT 19, Brandeis 8 Brandeis 16, Vassar 11

TOP SQUADS

• On the women's side, all four squads posted a 4-3 record on the day.
• The epee squad got off to a fast start, winning their first four matches, three by a 5-4 score.
• The saber and foil squads each had a 9-0 result, with the saber's coming against Wheaton and the foil's against Vassar.
• The Judges won both saber and epee against Wellesley, 5-4, but the Blue's 8-1 win in foil provided the 16-11 margin of victory.
• Epee won, 5-4, in a team loss to Brown, while foil did the same in an 18-9 loss to MIT.
• Both the men's saber sand foil squads went 3-2 on the day.
• The saber's 8-1 win over Wheaton was the largest margin in any squad for the men, and their 5-4 win over BC was the only squad win in that match.
• The foil put together 6-3 wins over Wheaton and Vassar and had the lone squad win against SHU, 5-4.

TOP INDIVIDUALS

• Senior Hannah Du (Winchester, Mass./Winchester) of the foil squad led the women with 12 wins, going 12-7 overall. She posted 3-0 records against Sacred Heart and Vassar and 2-1 against BC and MIT.
• Senior Kat Xikes (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) also reached double figures in wins, going 10-6 for the saber squad.
• Junior foil fencer Ella Richards (Harvard, Mass./Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School) had the women's top winning percentage on the day, going 8-1 in her nine bouts, including 3-0 against Sacred Heart and Vassar.
• Sophomore Zichun Wang (Beijing, China / Beijing National Day School) went 6-1 for the men's epee squad, the team's top winning percentage among fencers with more than one opponent faced.
• First-year foil fencer David Knizhnik (Bethesda, Md. / Aeon) paced the men with a 9-3 record in four matches. He was 3-0 against Sacred Heart and Boston College.
• First-year Jacob Benson (Arlington, Va. / Yorktown) topped the saber squad with eight wins.

UP NEXT

• The Judges will travel to Poughkeepsie, New York, on Sunday, March 8, for the NCAA East Regionals as they big to qualify for the national championships at Notre Dame.