"I think it is an indication that we have gotten better and steadier since that last match against them," said OSU head coach Joe Wells. "That is definitely a good thing to see at this point in the season."
"I knew at the beginning of the season we had to deal with some adversity, but the team worked its way through and I can see that we are really working as a team now."
OSU and Oregon (6-7, 4-6) will compete at the Pacific-10 Championships on Feb. 26-27 at Stanford. During Oregon State's current seven-meet winning streak, the Beavers have won 53 of 67 matches wrestled (three were forfeited to OSU); in those 53 wins, the Beavers have scored team bonus points for a pin, technical fall or major decision 25 times.
On Friday, a crowd of 804 saw OSU win its seventh straight in the Civil War, presented by Northwest Dodge Dealers, a streak dating back to the 2003 season. Oregon State won the first five matches of the night to take a 21-0 lead.
Beaver 141-pounder Kyle Larson won his 13th straight match, an 8-3 decision over Oregon's Skyler Woods. Kyle Larson is now 23-4 with three pins this season and has won 18 of his last 19 matches. Larson is ranked No. 1 among Pac-10 141-pounders, while Woods is ranked fourth.
Jeremy Larson, ranked 18th nationally in this week's National Wrestling Coaches Association/InterMat poll, won his 12th straight match with a 24-10 major decision over Chet McBee. Jeremy Larson has won 16 of his last 17 matches and is 24-8 with one pin this season.
Hook, ranked 16th nationally, pinned Oregon's Jeremy McLaughlin in 2:02 to improve to 19-7 with five pins this season. The victory moved Hook into a tie for 40th place on OSU's all-time list of career wins leaders; the senior is now 71-42.
Pfennigs pinned Oregon's Beau Malia in 2:49. Pfennigs has now won all eight of his matches since returning from an injury in mid-January, and he's 13-3 with four pins this season.
OSU 125-pounder Eric Stevenson kept the team lead for wins, beating Ryan Dunn 9-2 to improve to 27-7 this season. Stevenson has won seven straight and 11 of his last 12. Stevenson is ranked third in the Pac-10 while Dunn is ranked fifth.
Beaver heavyweight Ty Watterson, ranked 17th nationally, has also won seven straight and 11 of his last 12 after a 5-2 decision over Oregon's Chris Dearmon. Watterson is 26-7 with a team-high eight pins this season. Watterson is ranked second in the Pac-10, Dearmon is ranked sixth.
Pitsch has now won six of his last seven matches after beating Oregon's Shaun Dee 12-2. OSU also got a victory from 149-pounder Orlando Perez, who took a 9-2 decision over Stewart Bogart.
It was the biggest margin of victory for either team in the Civil War series since OSU's 41-9 win in Corvallis in 1985, and it gave Oregon State a 103-24-2 edge in an all-time series that dates back to 1915.
"This is one more indicator that we are making progress," Wells said. "We are really scoring a lot of points in each individual match and that is really important heading into the postseason."
The Beavers' seven-meet win streak is their longest since they won seven in a row at the end of the 2001 season and the start of the 2002 season, and it's the longest for OSU within a season since a seven-meet streak in 2000. OSU's dual meet winning percentage of .844 for the season was its best since 1992, when the Beavers had an 11-1-1 mark for a winning percentage of .885.
OREGON STATE 32, AT OREGON 7
125 - Eric Stevenson, OSU, dec. Ryan Dunn, UO, 9-2. 133 - Bobby Pfennigs, OSU, pinned Beau Malia, UO, 2:49. 141 - Kyle Larson, OSU, dec. Skyler Woods, UO, 8-3. 149 - Orlando Perez, OSU, dec. Stewart Bogart, UO, 9-2. 157 - (16) Tony Hook, OSU, pinned Jeremy McLaughlin, UO, 2:07. 165 - (10) Joey Bracamonte, UO, dec. Anthony Weber, OSU, 9-3. 174 - (18) Jeremy Larson, OSU, major dec. Chet McBee, UO, 24-10. 185 - (5) Shane Webster, UO, tech. fall Kyle Bressler, OSU, 6:41. 197 - Dan Pitsch, OSU, major dec. Shaun Dee, UO, 12-2. HWT - (17) Ty Watterson, OSU, dec. Chris Dearmon, UO, 5-2.
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