Border Axe Coming Back Home With The Beavs!

Oregon State Wrestling Fans,

The Border Axe is coming back home with the Beavers! Oregon State's wrestling team defeated the Boise State Broncos, 31-13.

This year snow and ice did not prevent the Beavers from flying down to Boise as it did a couple of years ago, although Portland had some ice this morning.

None of that ice mattered. The Beavers started out on a hot streak, with Joey Palmer  picking up  a major at 133 for the first match of the evening. Jack Hathaway stacked another six points onto that with a first period fall at 141! Joey Delgado added a decision at 149. Score OSU 13 BSU 0.

Boise then got on the scoreboard in the next three matches to even the score. The Broncos got a fall at 157, a decision at 165 and a major at 174. Score 13-13.

But that was all the Broncos would win, the rest was all Beavers. At 184 Seth McLeod defeated his former teammate 5-2 to add three points to the team score. Corey Griego added another three points with his decision at 197. Cody Crawford didn't waste time, getting a fall at heavyweight  in the first period. That took the pressure off of Kegan Calkins as Cody's six points put the meet out of reach for Boise. Score 25-13

The meet finished off with the 125 match, where Kegan got a fall of his own to make the final score OSU 31 BSU 13.

One personal note - The tech people at BSU spelled Kegan's name wrong on their video scoreboard as "Keegan". It is neither spelled that way nor pronounced that way. In case you are wondering, it is pronounced Keg'un, like Megan, only with a "K".

For more details:
osubeavers.com article
Boise State's article

The Beavers come home with the Border Axe and another Pac-12 win. They are now 2-0 in the Pac-12. They will have a chance to add a third on Sunday afternoon when they host the Arizona State Sun Devils in Gill Coliseum at 1:00, Feb. 5.

The Beavers will need to be ready for Sunday's dual. The Sun Devils have some highly ranked wrestlers and are ranked #14 as a team.

There will be a simple Social after the meet on Sunday, located in Reser Stadium's Loge. "FALL" Club members, don't forget to wear your ID badges for free entry to the Social and to pick up your free door prize ticket. While you are at it, pick up your "FALL" lapel pins for 2016-17.

If you have not already read the article by Arizona State, you may want to now.

If you cannot attend, the meet will be televised on the Pac-12 network, or you can follow live stats on Track Wrestling.

Congratulations again to all the Beaver match winners tonight - Palmer, Hathaway, Delgado, McLeod, Griego, Crawford and Calkins!!

Hope to see many of you at Gill on Sunday!

Go Beavs!