Post by Buckeye Dale on Jan 13, 2019 20:24:06 GMT -5
OHIO STATE DEFEATS THE SPARTANS OF MICHIGAN STATE, 37-4
WRESTLING: NO. 2 OHIO STATE MAULS MICHIGAN STATE, 37-4
By Andy Vance on January 13, 2019 at 6:28 pm
Ohio State improved to a perfect 7-0 Sunday afternoon, conquering the visiting Michigan State Spartans in 9 out of 10 matches, including six bonus-point victories. The Buckeyes performed largely as expected, with Joey McKenna, Myles Martin and Kollin Moore each scoring a tech fall or pin in the 37-4 rout.
True freshman Malik Heinselman, who burned his redshirt Friday night at Indiana, was the only Ohio State wrestler to drop a match versus the Spartans. The 125-pounder faced No. 8 Rayvon Foley, a sophomore who looked every bit a Top-10 competitor in a 19-6 major decision that represented the only points of the night for Michigan State.
"Tonight got away from him a little bit," said Ohio State associate head coach J Jaggers after the match. "Do I think he's 13 points behind that kid right now? Absolutely not. He wrestled him this summer in freestyle, a 13-12 barn burner."
Heinselman won that match, at the freestyle Junior World Team Trials. But as Jaggers noted, folkstyle is a different discipline and Foley clearly had the upper hand on top Sunday.
"[Foley] clearly overwhelmed him a little bit on the mat, and there are some mechanical things, technical things Malik can clean up from the bottom position, like leaving his hands back there a lot," Jaggers said. "He wrestled most of that three or four minutes he was on bottom with his arm behind his back."
Jaggers said regardless of the loss, the staff has every confidence in their new starter: "He got a rude welcome today, but we believe in him and he needs to believe in himself."
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WRESTLING: NO. 2 OHIO STATE MAULS MICHIGAN STATE, 37-4
By Andy Vance on January 13, 2019 at 6:28 pm
Ohio State improved to a perfect 7-0 Sunday afternoon, conquering the visiting Michigan State Spartans in 9 out of 10 matches, including six bonus-point victories. The Buckeyes performed largely as expected, with Joey McKenna, Myles Martin and Kollin Moore each scoring a tech fall or pin in the 37-4 rout.
True freshman Malik Heinselman, who burned his redshirt Friday night at Indiana, was the only Ohio State wrestler to drop a match versus the Spartans. The 125-pounder faced No. 8 Rayvon Foley, a sophomore who looked every bit a Top-10 competitor in a 19-6 major decision that represented the only points of the night for Michigan State.
"Tonight got away from him a little bit," said Ohio State associate head coach J Jaggers after the match. "Do I think he's 13 points behind that kid right now? Absolutely not. He wrestled him this summer in freestyle, a 13-12 barn burner."
Heinselman won that match, at the freestyle Junior World Team Trials. But as Jaggers noted, folkstyle is a different discipline and Foley clearly had the upper hand on top Sunday.
"[Foley] clearly overwhelmed him a little bit on the mat, and there are some mechanical things, technical things Malik can clean up from the bottom position, like leaving his hands back there a lot," Jaggers said. "He wrestled most of that three or four minutes he was on bottom with his arm behind his back."
Jaggers said regardless of the loss, the staff has every confidence in their new starter: "He got a rude welcome today, but we believe in him and he needs to believe in himself."
www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-wrestling/2019/01/101673/wrestling-no-2-ohio-state-mauls-michigan-state-37-4
ohiostatebuckeyes.com/ohio-state-defeats-the-spartans-of-michigan-state-37-4/
