"Overall, I was very pleased with today's matches," head coach Jack Spates said. "I think we made improvements from our ranking match last Thursday in our aggressiveness and our conditioning on the mat."
In the opening dual against Missouri Valley, Joey Fio at 125 pounds put OU on the board first by recording a 21-6 technical fall over Bill Exline. The Sooners would not look back after the initial win. Brian Shelton followed with a decision over Jon Garland in the 133-pound match, as did Zach Bailey with a major decision over Brandon Nice at 141 pounds.
The next two Sooners in the lineup scored falls with Will Rowe over Brian Graham at 149 pounds and Chad Terry over Juan Alvarez at 157 pounds to extend OU's team score to 24-0.
The closest match of the dual paired Max Dean and Chris Jones in the 165-pound bout. Dean recorded a 7-6 decision over Jones with the help of a riding time point to end the match. Jeff James then won his match at 174 pounds by a forfeit.
Joshua Weitzel at 184 pounds and Joel Flaggert at 197 pounds both recorded major decisions. Heavyweight Nathan Fernandez sealed the shutout with a fall over Travis Ewart to give the Sooners a 47-0 win over Missouri Valley.
It was another dominant performance in match number two against Oklahoma City, with the Sooners prevailing 44-0 over the Stars.
The following Sooners recorded major decisions: Fio over Adam Delong 16-5, Bailey over Jeremy Garner 13-1, James over John Wilcox 10-2 and Fernandez over Jeremy Johnson 12-2 in the heavyweight bout.
Shelton won his second match of the day in a 9-2 decision over Justin Blumer, as did Rowe scoring a technical fall over Nik Turner by a score of 22-7. Terry continued with a 2-0 decision over Brandon Benson.
Dean and Weitzel both recorded falls in their matches against Trevor Adkisson and Mitchell Eichenauer, respectively. Two-time All-American Joel Flaggert won his second match of the day in a technical fall over Corey Johnson, 21-6.
Sooners continued to impress in the third dual against Neosho Community College to end the day.
Greg Cannon was awarded a win in the first match by forfeit, and John Starzyk put the Sooners up 12-0 with a pin at the 2:40 mark over Ian Seaton.
Kyle Terry in his first match of the day at 141 pounds won by a medical forfeit to give the Sooners an 18-0 advantage and Matt Sansone was defeated in a decision by Ty Jaquess in the 149-pound match. Shane Vernon won his only match of the day by a forfeit.
Dean and James followed up with major decisions to put OU up 32-3 over the Black Cats.
Josh Hinton, Pat Flynn and Brad Farmer all recorded pins within the first period in the 184, 197 and heavyweight matches to give the Sooners a 50-3 victory in its last match.
"This has been another great evaluation on where we are strong and also where this team can improve," Spates continued. "This is a very young team and today was a step in the right direction."
The Sooners travel to Brockport, N.Y., next weekend for the annual Brockport/Oklahoma Gold Classic.
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