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Nate Tasker wins again

The Urbana Hawks made the trip to Oakland last Thursday evening for a huge dual meet with post-season implications.  It is early in the dual meet season, but every match and every win counts and we knew in advance this would be a highly contested event.  Urbana has six ranked wrestlers on their squad and were full of good athletes and solid wrestlers.  We had our work cut out for us, but we were up for the challenge.

Big pin for senior Erik Fike

The match started at 120 and saw the return of our unbeaten freshman Jake W Sweitzer who missed the Musselman Duals with an injury.  Sweitzer came back strong, scoring a second period pin to get the Rams on the board first 6-0.  Next up was Jake E Sweitzer in a battle against one of Urbana's top wrestlers.  The Hawks got on the board by winning a decision to tighten the score 6-3.

At 132, Nate Tasker ground out a 6-1 decision and at 138, Erik Fike scored a first period fall to stretch Southern's lead to 15-3 as we moved into to meat of Urbana's lineup.  Co-captain Jimmy Schwab dropped a decision at 145 as did sophomore Jace Guy at 152.  The Hawks scored a fall at 160 and suddenly, the match was tied at 15.

Joe Embleton won by decision at 170 and Urbana won by pin at 182 and 195 and we found ourselves trailing the Hawks 27-18.  It was not long before the Rams were back on top as Scotty Tichnell and Cole Sweitzer took a little over 3 minutes to each score pins to put Southern back in the lead at 30-27.

Scotty Tichnell going for the cradle and the pin

As we moved to the lower weights, the match hung in the balance when Evan Paugh took the mat at 106.  He fought hard for nearly 6 minutes before losing by fall with only seconds remaining.  The final match of the evening was set and Urbana held a slim 33-30 lead with our undefeated senior Brison Dixon set to take the mat.  Within seconds, Dixon scored the takedown and went in to finish things off.   Using a beautiful "banana-split", he scored the fall to remain unbeaten and to clinch the victory for the Rams. 

The win moves our record to 16-3 on the season and we have a tri-match tomorrow searching for two more wins against the Oakdale and Keyser.  Wrestling begins at 1pm.

Cole Sweitzer shoots the half

Southern Garrett 36 - Urbana 33

120 - Jake W Sweitzer (SG)  pins Michael Thaden (U)  3:30
126 - Cody Swigart (U) dec. Jake E Sweitzer (SG) 9-3
132 - Nate Tasker (SG) dec. Jon Song (U) 6-1
138 - Erik Fike (SG) pins Greg Gerber (U) :49
145 - Logan Arneson (U) dec Jimmy Schwab (SG) 6-4
152 - Shane Acton (U) dec. Jace Guy (SG) 7-0
160 - Jake Makosy (U) pins Alec Horner (SG) 3:37
170 - Joe Embleton (SG) dec. Mason Newton (U) 7-1
182 - Jake Nielson (U) pins Patrick Duggan (SG) 3:24
195 - Kevin Makosy (U) pins Gunnar Ward (SG) :31
220 - Scotty Tichnell (SG) pins John Edmunds (U) 1:04
285 - Cole Sweitzer (SG) pins Austin Geisler (U) 2:10
106 - Cole Jacobs (U) pins Evan Paugh (SG) 5:56
113 - Brison Dixon (SG) pins Colby Barton (U) :41