The most exciting match of the night came when Cowboy junior Newly McSpadden held on to beat Northern Iowa's Tyson Reiner 6-5 by scoring a riding time point. Senior Coleman Scott had the best performance for the Cowboys, pinning Northern Iowa's Josh Baldridge just 1:37 into the match. Cowboy heavyweight Jared Rosholt set the pace for the rest of the night with his 7-0 decision over Panther Dustin Bauman in the first match of the dual.
Match-by-Match:
Heavyweight: The dual started with a bang for the Cowboys as No. 7 Jared Rosholt defeated Dustin Bauman, 7-0. Rosholt scored early with a takedown at the 2:24 mark of the first period and never looked back. In the second period, he recorded an escape with 53 seconds remaining and quickly recorded another takedown with 41 seconds on the clock. A stalling penalty on Bauman with three seconds left in the period brought the score to 6-0. There was no scoring in the third period, but Rosholt was able to add 1:52 riding time to win 7-0.
125 pounds: Tyler Shinn helped the Cowboys with an 8-3 decision over Caleb Flores. Shinn scored a takedown with 2:14 left in period one, but had an illegal hold penalty with 36 seconds left in the period. He was able to register an escape and a takedown in the second period and a takedown in the third. Shinn had a 3:27 riding time advantage at the end of the match.
133 pounds: No. 1 Coleman Scott made short work of Josh Baldridge, recording a takedown with 2:42 left in the first period and pinning him in 1:37.
141 pounds: Second-ranked Nathan Morgan handled C.J. Ettelson to record his 24th win of the season. The match began with two Morgan takedowns followed by Ettelson escapes in the first period. Ettelson had an escape in the second period to bring the score to 4-3 in favor of Morgan. The deciding point in the match came when Morgan recorded a reversal with 1:40 left in the third period to go up 6-3. Morgan added 1:25 riding time to end the match at 7-4.
149 pounds: Cowboy senior Ryan Freeman wrestled at the 149 spot for the Cowboys and won the decision over Nick Pickerell. Freeman was on top the entire match, scoring two points in every period and adding 2:48 riding time to win, 7-1. Pickerell's only point came when he escaped with 1:15 left in period three.
157 pounds: Easily the most exciting match of the night, No. 17 Newly McSpadden's match against Tyson Reiner went down to the wire. McSpadden jumped to a 3-0 lead at the end of the second period with an escape and takedown, but Reiner made things interesting. With only one minute left in the final period, Reiner had two takedowns followed by McSpadden escapes to tighten the score gap. A penalty on McSpadden with nine seconds left tied the score at five, but his 1:28 riding time advantage gave him the 6-5 decision.
165 pounds: Another close match followed McSpadden's win as No. 5 Jake Dieffenbach faced No. 11 Moza Fay. Dieffenbach had two takedowns and an escape and Fay had two escapes in the first two periods to bring the score to 5-2. Fay had an early escape in the third to bring the match within one takedown, but Dieffenbach was able to hold on for the 5-3 decision.
174 pounds: No. 7 Brandon Mason handled Alex Dolly with a takedown in the first period and an escape and takedown in the final period. His final takedown came with two seconds left in the match and brought the final score to 5-0.
184 pounds: The first of two back-to-back 11-5 decisions for the Cowboys came when senior Jack Jensen defeated Andy O'Loughlin. Jensen wrestled consistently throughout the match to record the win.
197 pounds: The second 11-5 win came when Clayton Foster defeated Andrew Anderson in the final match of the evening. Foster jumped to a 5-0 lead in second period and hung on for the win.
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