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Ohio Wrestling dominates SIUE for senior night victory

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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The Ohio wrestling team won its third-straight MAC dual after defeating Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, 34-6.  The Bobcats improve to 9-3 overall and 5-2 in the MAC.

Ohio held host to the Cougars on Saturday evening in the Convocation Center. The last matchup between the two teams goes back to 2019, where Ohio took home the win 22-19.

“We are going to continue working on the same stuff going forward, scoring points, rest on top and I think we did that tonight and it showed. We opened up some matches by doing that,” head coach Joel Greenlee said.

This wasn’t an average night as Ohio held its annual senior night, honoring three seniors and their successes. Seniors Alec Hagan, Kyran Hagan, Logan Stanley, and their families got to walk out to start off the night.

Bobcat Giovanni DiSabato attempts to pin Kyle Gorant of Davidson College at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio, on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. [Alex Eicher | WOUB]
Bobcat Giovanni DiSabato attempts to pin Kyle Gorant of Davidson College at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio, on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. [Alex Eicher | WOUB]

Jordan Slivka started the match at 157 pounds. He gets Ohio going on the right foot with a 6-0 lead, winning with a fall at 5:14.

174-pounder Sal Perrine dominated 8-5 and defeated Kevin Gschwendtner by decision, 9-5.

At 184 pounds, freshman Zayne Lehman defeats Sergio Villalobos and extends the lead for the Bobcats winning by an 11-1 major decision and 13-3 for Ohio.

Fellow redshirt sophomore Carson Brewer, standing at 184 pounds picked up 3 points for Ohio with a 6-0 decision in his defeat over Ryan Yarnell. Brewer leads 5-0 with 3:33 of RT after the second.  Sophomore Oscar Sanchez ontinued the Bobcats’ momentum with an 8-1 decision at 125 pounds.

Giovanni Desabato and redshirt senior Kyran Hagan won by forfeit at 133 and 141 pounds.

Alec Hagan, in the 149-pound category, gets two takedowns in his match against Caleb Tyus. The redshirt senior won by a decision of 3-1.

Ending out the night was 285-pound redshirt junior Jordan Earnest with the fall on his senior night. The win was declared for the Bobcats by pin at 1:05 left in the match.

“I could talk about how every single guy played well tonight, but it was an overall good performance for us. Everybody wrestled tough, we wrestled hard and that was the goal,” Greenlee said.

This upcoming Saturday Ohio will be back in The Convo, taking on fellow MAC opponent Buffalo with hopes of continuing its win streak.