The Bronchos won nine of 10 weights in rolling to their seventh consecutive victory, improving to 10-1 on the year and 5-0 in the league to capture the conference dual title. UCO, which has won 36 of 40 individual matches in the last four duals, will host Colorado State-Pueblo and Ouachita Baptist starting at 12 p.m. Saturday.
“I thought the guys did a nice job tonight competing and giving great effort,” head coach David James said. “There's still some things we've got to clean up and when guys get a chance to get bonus points in matches they've got to take advantage, but all-in-all it was a good night.”
Cory Dauphin picked up his fourth fall of the night at 157 pounds, needing just 1:45 to dispose of Mike Boyd. Brother Cody pinned Tim Tuaquoi at the 3:58 mark in the final bout of the night at heavyweight for his team-high eighth fall.
Casy Rowell had the only other bonus-point win for the Bronchos, overwhelming Hunter Neighbors 13-0 at 133. It was the 19th straight win – including the seventh consecutive bonus victory – for Rowell, who had three near-falls in notching his sixth major decision of the season.
UCO got shutouts from 125 Ryan Brooks (6-0) and top-ranked 149 Jordan Basks (7-0), while 141 Ben Morgan, 174 Kelly Henderson, 184 Tanner Keck and 197 Znick Ferrell all picked up decisions.
Keck had the toughest time before pulling out a 7-6 tiebreaker victory over Clarence Neely. Keck had two second-period takedowns in taking a 5-1 lead, but Neely tied it with two third-period takedowns and neither scored in the one-minute sudden-victory period.
Keck escaped midway through the first 30-second tiebreaker to break the 6-6 deadlock and then controlled Neely in the second tiebreaker to pick up his 95th career victory.
Results:
125 – Ryan Brooks, UCO, dec. Laramie Allembaugh, 6-0.
133 – Casy Rowell, UCO, major dec. Hunter Neighbors, 13-0.
141 – Ben Morgan, UCO, dec. Eric Mateo, 9-3.
149 – Jordan Basks, UCO, dec. Nick Viterisi, 7-0.
157 – Cory Dauphin, UCO, pinned Mike Boyd, 1:45.
165 – Ty Lathen, UCM, pinned Zach Aylor, 2:32.
174 – Kelly Henderson, UCO, dec. Josh Ploff, 6-1.
184 – Znick Ferrell, UCO, dec. Todd Brier, 5-1.
Hvy – Cody Dauphin, UCO, pinned Tim Tuaquoi, 3:58.
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