Preview: #13 Baldwin Wallace (15-6 Overall, 2-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (14-4 Overall, 2-1 OAC)
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 7:30 pm, ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Tuesday's Dual Meet: Tuesday's match is the penultimate dual meet for ONU this season ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 22-18 victory at John Carroll last Tuesday ... Northern got a huge win from junior Colt Lovejoy and a big pin from senior All-American Cody Lovejoy in the victory ... Colt Lovejoy had the key win of the evening for ONU, defeating No. 5-ranked Terner Gott 2-1 at 165 pounds ... He has won 3 consecutive matches against nationally ranked opponents and is 28-4 on the year ... With ONU trailing 18-16, Cody Lovejoy won by pin in 1:03 at heavyweight to clinch the victory for the Polar Bears ... Cody is 36-0 overall and 3-0 in OAC dual meets and now has an NCAA-best 23 pins on the year ... Lovejoy currently ranks 2nd all-time at ONU with a 137-34 career record ... Senior Cole Cochran is third on the team with a 26-14 record at 133 pounds ... Freshman Evan Morgan and sophomore Kyler Deeter each have 25 wins and sophomore Gennar Feucht and freshman Dylan Dolph each have 20 wins o the year ... The Polar Bears will wrap up their regular season and celebrate Senior Night next Tuesday with a 7:30 pm dual with Muskingum at the ONU Sports Center ... The #13-ranked Yellow Jackets enter tonight's dual after winning their own John Summa Invitational on Saturday ... Juniors Jesse Gunter and Garrett Chase won titles at 125 and 174 pounds, recpectively ... Gunter, who is ranked #3 nationally at 125 pounds, was named the Tournament MVP and is 17-2 on the season ... Chase is 30-6 on the year ... Junior David Shapiro is 28-6 at 157 pounds and is ranked #10 nationally at 165 pounds ... Sophomore Josh Decatur is 27-8 at 141 pounds for the Yellow Jackets.
ONU head coach Ron Beaschler: Beaschler in his 27th season at ONU with a 286-199-4 record, a winning percentage of .589 ... He is the all-time winningest coach in ONU history and has the longest tenure as head wrestling coach at ONU ... He was inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Hall of Fame in 2008 ... He was named OAC Coach of the Year in 1993, 2012 and 2013.