Five members of the Yeostabbbers, Oberlin's fencing team, won 22 of 28 matches Oct. 3 at a Lakewood fencing club, Cyrano's Place.

Sophomore Matt Strine and senior Jason Pinchuk led Oberlin with seven and five wins. Neither lost a match.

The Yeostabbers competed with two of the three weapons used in fencing - foil and epee.

The team has some big matches coming up, including a United States Fencing Association divisional tournament in Philips Gym Nov. 2.

The women's ultimate Frisbee team eliminated all its non-club competition Saturday and Sunday at the club regional in Toledo.

Unfortunately for the Praying Mantii record, three-fourths of the competition were club teams.

Oberlin blanked Ohio University's Flying Discs of Estrogen 13-0 but fell to three club teams: Cleveland's Valudisc, Cincinnati's One Huge Me and Ann Arbor, Mich.'s Sugar.

The Valudisc game was the last of the tournament for the Mantii and the team's tightest. Oberlin lost 12-8 because the time limit came before either team reached 13 points. Oberlin fought hard after an early deficit.

Oberlin will play a Halloween tournament Nov. 2 at Ohio University and possibly a scrimmage at Indiana University during the fall season.

The team, which is young but gaining experience fast, is adding more complexity to its game.

"There's a lot of enthusiasm but we're reaching a point where we're trying to learn a lot more things, so the learning process is slowed," sophomore Erika Zaklin said.

Oberlin's Flying Horsecows went 2-2 in its year's first tournament - the club regionals in Toledo.

Most college ultimate Frisbee teams add graduate students for their club teams - and thus become stronger than they are in the college seasons. Oberlin doesn't have the advantage of graduate students, and thus can be overmatched in the fall club season.

Oberlin beat the University of Cincinnati's Gravity Storm 13-1 and Case Western Reserve University's Screwheads 13-5 and lost to the University of Kentucky's Black Lung 13-1 and a Cleveland club team, Death and Semen, 13-3.

"It was a good two and two," sophomore Dan "Podin" Feldman said. "We played really well together as a team."

The team's next tournament is Nov. 2 at Ohio University.

Seniors Erika Bradford and Bethany Pribila became the first Oberlin players ever to compete in a Rolex tournament Saturday at Kenyon College.

But both players bowed out early in the regional tournament for highly-ranked players. Pribila lost in the second round and Bradford didn't make it past her opening match.

Their coach, Don Hunsinger, said both were victims of bad tournament draws.

As a doubles team, Pribila and Bradford also lost in the first round. The pair, expected to be Oberlin's top players in the spring season, have not played doubles together for two years.

The men's and women's basketball teams are having a Halloween party to celebrate the opening of practice season.

Philips Gym will be open to the public, especially those in costume, at midnight Oct. 31, when NCAA rules allow the teams to have official practices.

Both teams have been training all fall.

Women's coach Anne Gilbert and men's coach Miguel Curl are organizing the festive season starter.