Wrestling

BEREA, OHIO --  The Baldwin-Wallace College wrestling team won nine of 10 matches to defeat Ohio Athletic Conference rival Muskingum University, 36-6, tonight (Saturday, February 12, 2011) in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in the Lou Higgins Center. The victory was the eighth in the last nine dual matches for B-W.
 

Jeremy Dombrady	Andrew Scavuzzo
Tristan Stoll	Ryan Jones

With its victory, the Yellow Jackets improve to 11-8 overall and 4-1 in the OAC and are now tied for second place with Ohio Northern University in the OAC Standings. Earlier this morning, B-W lost to ONU, 25-18, in the Ursprung Gym to end a season-high seven-match winning streak. With its loss, Muskingum is now 5-12 overall and 0-4 in the OAC.

B-W would win its beginning five matches. Starting off the streak was junior 125-pounder Jeremy Dombrady (Copley) as he won by a technical fall, 16-0 in 4:58. The next three wins came by decisions beginning with senior 133-pounder Phillip Payne (Woodmere/Orange), followed by junior 141-pounder Grant Steward (Columbus/Worthington Kilbourne) and freshman 149-pounder Andrew Taylor (Columbus/Worthington Kilbourne) by scores of 5-3, 6-3 and 4-3 respectively. Senior 157-pounder Korey Leonhard (Kinsman/ Pymatuning Valley) capped off the streak with an 8-3 decision putting the Yellow Jackets up 17-0.

Muskingum would then get its first and only points of the contest when senior 165-pounder Adam Harris received a forfeit.
 

After the forfeit at 165, B-W would close out the match by winning the final four matches.  Senior 174-pounder Andrew Scavuzzo (Cuyahoga Falls/Woodridge) picked up major decision of 12-0 to improve to his record to a team leading 32-2.
 

Following Scavuzzo’s major decision, sophomore 184-pounder Joe Georgian (Eastlake/ Villa Angela-St. Joseph) won by decision of 3-1.  Senior 197-pounder Tristan Stoll (Milan/Edison) and junior 285-pounder Ryan Jones (Uniontown (Lake) would close out the match with pins at 5:26 and 35 second respectively. Stoll has now recorded a pin in his last six matches and Jones has pinned his last two opponents.
 

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FINAL SCORE:  Baldwin-Wallace -- 36, Muskingum --  6

 

125 lbs: Jeremy Dombrady (B-W) technical fall Shawn Feistamel (MU), 16-0 in 4:58; 133 lbs: Phil Payne (B-W) dec. Chip Halko (MU), 5-3; 141 lbs: Grant Steward (B-W) dec. Luke Caracofe (MU), 6-3; 149 lbs:  Andrew Taylor (B-W) dec. Kenny Poland (MU), 4-3; 157 lbs:  Korey Leonhard (B-W) dec. Blake Freidt (MU), 8-3; 165 lbs:  Adam Harris (MU) won by forfeit; 174 lbs:  Andrew Scavuzzo (B-W) maj. dec. Mike Frasure (MU),12-0; 184 lbs: Joe Georgian (B-W) dec. Danny Dunn (MU), 3-1; 197 lbs:  Tristan Stoll (B-W) pinned Lucas Weber (MU), 5:26; 285 lbs:  Ryan Jones (B-W) pinned TJ McCray (MU), 0:35