COLUMBUS -- The Wayne State University women's fencing team saw action at The Ohio State University's Elite Invitational on Saturday, November 8, at the French Field House.

WSU collected a 15-12 win over the Air Force Academy, while being thwarted by the Buckeyes (16-11), the University of North Carolina (18-9), and Denison University (15-12).

FOIL
In the foil weapon, sophomore Anabella Acurero Gonzalez (Valencia, Venezuela / Colegio de San Gabriel Arcangel) and senior Ludovica Mancini (Rome, Lazio, Italy / Liceo Linguistico Niccolò Machiavelli) competed for WSU.

Acurero Gonzalez and Mancini both went 10-2 on the first day.  The sophomore went 3-0 against OSU, Air Force, and UNC, while adding one more win over Denison.  The senior nabbed 3-0 marks against Air Force and Denison, while going 2-1 vs. both OSU and UNC.

SABRE
Reagan Byars (Warren, Mich. / Warren Woods Tower [Macomb CC]), Shriya Bangalore (Frisco, Texas / Centennial), Mehreen Siddiqui (Canton, Mich. / Salem), and Mikhala Rivers (Maple Grove, Minn. / DeLaSalle) represented the Green and Gold in the sabre.

Byars (2-8) and Bangalore (2-7) each tallied a pair of bout victories, with the graduate student (Byars) collecting a win against student-athletes from OSU and Air Force, while the freshman (Bangalore) earned both of her bout victories against AFA.

Rivers tallied a 3-5 mark that included a pair of wins against DU and one more over an individual from Air Force.

Siddiqui finished the first day of competition with an 0-9 overall bout ledger.

EPEE
In the epee, both Reka Galfalvy (Budapest, Hungary / Vörösmarty Mihály) and Salma Abdrabou (Cairo, Egypt / Dar El Tarbiah IGCSE) found success on day one.

Galfalvy went 10-2 with 3-0 marks over UNC and Denison, while nabbing a pair of 2-1 performances over OSU and AFA.

Abdrabou went 10-2 as well, going 3-0 against Ohio State, Air Force, and Denison, and collecting one more victory vs. North Carolina.

UP NEXT
The WSU women's fencing team will wrap the OSU Elite Invitational on Sunday, November 9.