It was almost like Chattanooga missed the bus from Tennessee after a 33-3 defeat was handed to them by OU Friday at Lloyd Noble Center.
“We talk all the time about how it’s not who you wrestle, but how you wrestle,” head coach Jack Spates said. “This was probably the best overall performance this season.”
Friday marked the third annual “Beauty and the Beast” event where the No. 1 ranked women’s gymnastics team also competed alongside.
No. 9 ranked OU (15-2-1, 2-1-1) won nine of ten matches, led by redshirt junior Zack Bailey’s major decision over Ben Johnson, 12-1. Spates jokingly attributed that the win in thanks to Bailey’s new hair highlights.
“If you’re going to wrestle like a rock star, you’ve got to look like a rock star too,” Spates said.
Almost all OU grapplers were successful tonight except redshirt freshman Erich Schmidtke, who fell 0-4 to Chattanooga’s Jason McCroskey at 184 pounds.
The night began with an 116 win by Freshman Jarrod Patterson over Demetrius Johnson at 125 pounds, and ended with an 18-5 major decision for redshirt junior Nathan Fernandez over Matt Lattner at HWT.
The OU wrestling team will go head-to-head against Oregon State at 2 p.m. Sunday inside the Howard McCasland Field House.
“[Oregon State] is a talented team and a tough team,” Spates said. “But it if we wrestle like we did tonight, we have nothing to worry about. It is going to be a great meet.”
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