Beavers Shut Down Clackamas 45-0

As you may have expected, the Beavers took all ten matches tonight, plus one more at the end with an exhibition match-up of 125's.

While Clackamas is a Community College, they are highly ranked in their division. You never want to overlook your opponent and the Cougars came to wrestle. The Beavers made sure they did not underestimate their opposition.

At 125 Ronnie Bresser came out and started things off right with a tech fall. At 133 Joey Palmer added a major decision. Next  Jack Hathaway won by decision over Ronnie Bresser's brother Zech. Joey Delgado turned what started out to be a close match into another major decision for the Beavers.

At 157 Abraham Rodriguez gave up the first two points but was a second period winner by fall! Seth Thomas followed up with another fall, this time coming in the third period. Next was 174, with Ali Alshujery making his debut on his home mat and coming away with the victory 8-3.

Corey Griego's match concluded with a tech fall in the second period. The closest match of the evening was at 197 between Cody Crawford and John Morin of CCC. Cody squeaked out a 3-2 win. The final match of the meet was at heavyweight. Amar Dhesi was ahead 13-3 before the match was called when his opponent collected too many stalling calls.

The last match of the evening was an exhibition at 125. Kegan Calkins won by 14-4 in a match filled with lots of exciting scrambles. Unfortunately I never managed to catch the name of his opponent and I don't see it in the other articles.

For all the details, read the article at OSU's website.

Congratulations to the whole team!!

Congratulations also go out to Ron Finley! Ron was the  winner of the $50 gift certificate from the drawing of those who got their FALL membership application in by the Nov 6 deadline. Thank you to Ron! and all the rest of you who turned in their applications by the deadline. It really helps the FALL Board get things ready by the time the season arrives!

A big thank you also to FALL Club member Ron Iwasaki who brought a donation of beautiful poinsettias to the Social sponsored by "The FALL" after the meet. Many lucky ladies got to take those gorgeous plants home at the end of the evening.

Can't go without saying thank you to all who traveled to the meet, both Oregon State and Clackamas fans! The weather has been pretty bad with flooding and landslides, but fortunately quite a few fans made it in spite of the weather and the holdiay season.

Many of the rest of the squad are on their way to Reno for the Reno Tournament of Champions, see ROTC.

The starters are off until Dec 26, then they prepare for the Midlands Dec 29-30, see here for more information.

Austin Morehead, volunteer assistant coach at OSU, will be participating in the Senior Nationals this weekend in Las Vegas. This is a qualifying event for the Olympic Trials which will be held in April. See her for more information on the Nationals. Best of Luck, Austin!!

To follow the action at the RTOC or MIdlands, check on Flowrestling.

Go Beavs!