The Ohio State men’s and women’s fencing teams hope to cut up the competition this weekend in their first dual meet of the season at Notre Dame.Head coach Charlotte Remenyik, in her 19th season at Ohio State, expects the team to do well at the meet she said. ‘Every meet is important. The Midwest Regional Championship seedings are based on the results from dual meets,’ Remenyik said. ‘They (the fencers) are fighting for every victory because that gives them a better seed and hopefully they can make it to NCAAs.’Remenyik’s expectations of the teams are well-founded. Junior Patricia Szelle is a two-time All American in foil and sophomore Spela Pirc was an All-American in epee last season for the women’s team. Szelle and Pirc finished third and fourth respectively at last year’s NCAA championships.The men are not far behind as seniors Tim Bookwalter and Doug Findlay in foil and junior Jeff Carlino in epee qualified for the NCAA tournament last season.’They are a year older. I hope they have a year more experience,’ Remenyik said. ‘I expect them to be even better than last year.’ Pirc is excited about the meet. ‘Since we fenced them last year we are looking forward to fencing them again to see if they changed their team,’ she said. ‘How good are they? How good are we?’ When Pirc, a native of Slovenia, was offered a scholarship to OSU, she was eager to accept it. ‘I could study whatever I wanted and fence all of the time. What can you wish more,’ she said.One of three weapons is used when fencing; the foil, epee, or sabre. The women’s team does not compete in the sabre. An electronic scoring jacket that records a legal hit is worn by fencers in foil and epee while the sabre is judged by a president and four judges. The first person to be hit five times loses the bout.After the meet at Notre Dame the teams will not compete again until January 17-19 at Northwestern, where they will compete against teams from nine other universities.