Foster knocked off No. 6 Joe LeBlanc of Wyoming by a 10-5 score when he connected on a five-point move in sudden victory as part of OSU's 31-3 win over UW in Laramie last Friday. With a No. 6 national ranking, LeBlanc is the second-highest ranked opponent Foster has beaten in his career.
With Foster holding a 2-0 lead and in the top position to start the third period, LeBlanc scored a reversal to tie the score at two. Foster escaped to go up, 3-2 and then things got wild. LeBlanc took Foster down to take a 4-3 lead and after Foster was slapped with a stalling point, LeBlanc held a 5-3 edge. With two seconds left, Foster escaped and his riding time point brought the score to 5-5 and sent the bout into overtime. LeBlanc went after Foster in the sudden victory period, but Foster worked and scored a takedown of his own and turned it into a five-point move with a three-point nearfall to claim victory.
Earlier in the day, Foster pinned Northern Colorado's Patrick Prentice at the 3:28 mark of their bout. Foster punished Prentice from the start, using three takedowns, a two-point nearfall and a pair of three-point nearfalls to race to a 14-2 lead in the first period alone. He added another takedown early in the second period, then took control of Prentice's head, locked up the cradle and got the fall. Foster owns a 13-2 record on the year after missing a chunk of the season due to injury. He has added bonus points in nine of his 13 wins.
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