Consecutive pins power No. 19 Cougar Wrestling to victory over No. 16 Northwest Tech
As it had down in the previous two matches of Tuesday’s Cougar Duals at the Barton Gym, the No. 19 ranked Barton Community College Wrestling team piled up twenty unanswered points in the middle weight divisions to knock off No. 16 ranked Northwest Kansas Technical College 26-19 in the final match of the night.
As it had down in the previous two matches of Tuesday's Cougar Duals at the Barton Gym, the No. 19 ranked Barton Community College Wrestling team piled up twenty unanswered points in the middle weight divisions to knock off No. 16 ranked Northwest Kansas Technical College 26-19 in the final match of the night.
Following both teams forfeiting the opening 125 pound division, No. 6 Caysen Smith earned his first victory of the night in convincing fashion with a 1:13 fall giving Barton the early lead.
Northwest Tech tied it up in the following 141 class with Barton's forfeit before taking the lead on Dominique Evans' 7-4 win over Sean Taborsky. Taking a 4-1 lead after the first, Evans increased the lead to four before Taborsky cut the deficit in half with an early third period take down. Taborsky kept up the attack but Evans fended off the aggression to hold on for a 7-4 win.
Injured in an earlier match, Christian Rivas was unable to go in the 157 giving the Mavericks their second forfeited match to increase the lead to nine.
However the Cougars would own the next four weight divisions going a twenty point surge to secure the match. Kendall Biddle would get things going in the 165 scoring a take down in each of the first two periods going on for a 7-1 win. Barton would then go back-to-back flat backers in with David Kelly getting a 1:37 fall in the 174 followed by Devon Baker's pin in just fifty-eight seconds. Ethan Dean would keep the Cougar momentum rolling into the 197 taking a 5-3 lead into the third before getting a reversal and three four-point near falls in capturing the match and the team dual with a 20-4 tech fall.
Winding up the Cougar Duals was a battle of nationally ranked wrestlers as No. 8 Brix Brickey took on the nation's No. 2 ranked Odgerek Batkhisig. The Mongolian freshman got the better of the Lindsborg redshirt freshman as Batkhisig registered seven takedowns while Brickey was only able to score seven escapes in the 16-7 victory.