Jillian Bratton, a fencer from Kew Gardens, was getting frustrated. It was the gold medal match of the Empire State Games, and Bratton wasn’t so much as having trouble with her opponent as she was her opponent’s father, who was ranting and rav

In the finals however, Bratton, a 13-year-old who attended Russell Sage Junior High in Forest Hills and will be a freshman at Dwight in the fall, could not deflect the thread of noise coming from his direction, nor could she outsmart the play clock, which