Early celebrations (and downright arrogance) fail to halt Fencers charge
Imperial College Men’s and Women’s First Drinking team won again. Unfortunately, the women, after seeing the men thrash the shit out of Nottingham, failed to match them for total domination of the game. What are we talking about? Why, fencing of course.
The Men’s team consisted of our team captain, Master of Weapons Crazy Legs, Ray, Sebastian, Geezer, Babyface and Animal. Fights were dropped by Crazy Legs and Ray, leaving the score 7-2 to IC. Next came the foil, with wins for Crazy Legs, Ray and Babyface. 7-2 again. By this time the overall match was well won, so certain members of the team started getting a tiny bit merry before the match was over. Which fool decided to put a bar in a sports centre? However, the epee was still won in a stunning final match win by Crazy Legs (again!).
The Women’s team were Fire, Earth and Air (the men’s team got through enough liquid to amply make up for the absence of water).
With all three women fencing both epée and foil, they put a good showing against a very strong opposition, to win six of their fights.
The next match for the men (who present an excellent chance of winning the BUSA team event) is against Manchester or Bradford, and with luck a full team will turn out as each round will be harder - so be their Tweedledum and Tweedledee (the foil twins).
