Central Michigan University Athletics
Central Michigan University
Oregon State
CMU Falls to Oregon State
1/9/2016 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - It's a quick turnaround for the Central Michigan wrestling team from Saturday's dual with Oregon State to Sunday's with Ohio.
That's a good thing.
Oregon State won seven of the 10 matches, two by major decision and one by disqualification, on Saturday in handing CMU a 26-9 non-conference loss at McGuirk Arena.
It was the Chippewas' first dual loss of the season, dropping them to 4-1. They wrestle Ohio on Sunday (2 p.m.) at McGuirk in a Mid-American Conference dual.
CMU is 1-0 in MAC duals. Ohio is 5-1 overall, 1-1 in the MAC after a 19-12 win over Eastern Michigan on Friday.
"I think they're embarrassed right now," CMU coach Tom Borrelli said of his wrestlers. "They should be. I expect them to respond well, but we'd better be able to get off the bottom. If we wrestle tomorrow like we did off the bottom today we're going to be in trouble again.
"You've got to shift gears pretty quick. They've got to forget about it and figure out what they did wrong and move forward, have a better day tomorrow."
The Chippewas had wrestled well throughout the season, finishing second at the Reno Tournament of Champions and eighth over New Year's weekend at the Southern Scuffle. Both results were very respectable, and the Chippewas had climbed to 16th in this week's National Wrestling Coaches Association rankings.
Unranked Oregon State (4-3) was coming off a 27-9 dual-meet loss to Michigan on Thursday.
"Our team right now, when we have success, I don't know that we know how to handle it," Borrelli said. "You're not going to wrestle a well-coached team, and a team that just got beat up two nights ago by the University of Michigan, and think they're not going to come in here and have a little bit of pride.
"I don't think we were ready for that. I think they were ready to wrestle today."
The Chippewas dropped decisions at 125 pounds and 133 to fall into a 6-0 hole, then Zach Horan was disqualified at 141 for applying an illegal hold that resulted in an injury to Oregon State's Jack Hathaway.
The result was six team points for the Beavers, and their lead swelled to 12-0.
"I don't think that had a whole lot to do with the score of the dual meet," Borrelli said. "I think we got outhustled, I think we got ridden to death - we've got to get better at getting off the bottom.
"I just feel like sometimes you lay an egg in athletics and we laid an egg today."
The Chippewas got an 8-3 win from Justin Oliver at 149 and a 7-1 victory from Luke Smith at 157 to cut their deficit to 12-6, but they would win just one more match the rest of the way, that coming at 174 where Mike Ottinger took a 7-5 win.
"Coach preaches scoring points," Smith said. "That's what we have to do and we didn't execute that today. We didn't score enough points. I didn't score enough points. I don't think in any one of our matches we scored enough points, even the ones we won.
"I think we'll turn around and respond well tomorrow. In the sport of wrestling it's humiliating to lose. If you're a prideful person you'll turn around and come back more aggressive tomorrow."
Oregon State 26, Central Michigan 9
125 pounds: Ronnie Bresser (OSU) dec. Brent Fleetwood, 8-3
133: Joey Palmer (OSU) dec. Corey Keener, 10-8
141: Jack Hathaway (OSU) def. Zach Horan (CMU), disqualification
149: Justin Oliver (CMU) dec. Joey Delgado, 8-3
157: Lucas Smith (CMU) dec. Abraham Rodriguez, 7-1
165: Seth Thomas (OSU) dec. Jordan Atienza, 10-8
174: Mike Ottinger (CMU) dec. Tyler Chay, 7-5
184: Corey Griego (OSU) major dec. Jordan Ellingwood, 10-2
197: Cody Crawford (OSU) dec. Jackson Lewis, 2-0
HWT: Amarveer Dhesi (OSU) major dec. Adam Robinson, 10-2
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