Wrestling | 1/26/2020 3:49:00 PM
FAYETTE, Iowa — The Minnesota State University Moorhead wrestling team dropped a 38-6 dual at No. 10 Upper Iowa in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference action on Sunday in Fayette, Iowa.
MSUM fell to 1-5 overall and 0-4 in the NSIC with the loss while Upper Iowa improved to 12-2 overall and 5-0 in the league.
Senior
Zach Scott recorded his second win by fall of the week for MSUM, pinned Upper Iowa's Jacob Nichel in 6:46 to account for the six Dragon points.
MSUM was down 18-0 after the first three weights, which included two wins by fall and a forfeit.
The Dragons lost three 1-point matches on the day — at 157 Mac Spotts edged MSUM junior
Tell Ward, 1-0, while at 174 Jamie Gehling edged Dragon sophomore
Evan Foster 3-2.
At 285, Triston Westerlund edged Dragon junior
Jordan Magnuson, 2-1.
MSUM's next action is Thursday vs. No. 1 St. Cloud State. That dual will take place in Pierz, Minn.
No. 10 Upper Iowa 38, MSUM 6
125-Jared Hensley (Upper) pinned
Cameron Williams, 3:22
133-Donny Schmid (Upper) won by forfeit
141-Tate Murty (Upper) pinned
Mason Schulz, 5:56
149-
Zach Scott (MSUM) pinned Jacob Niichel, 6:46
157-Mac Spotts (Upper) dec.
Tell Ward, 1-0
165-Brock Benitz (Upper) maj. dec.
Justin Dravis, 9-1
174-Jamie Gehling (Upper) dec.
Evan Foster, 3-2
184-Dalton Hahn (Upper) maj. dec.
Steven Abbott, 16-4
197-Nick Baumler (Upper) dec.
Logan Rhode, 16-11
285-Triston Westerlund (Upper) dec.
Jordan Magnuson, 2-1
