Wrestling: #12 Mount Saint Joseph (3-5 Overall) at Ohio Northern (6-3 Overall)
Tuesday, January 4, 2022, 6 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Tuesaday's Dual Match: The Polar Bears open the 2022 portion of their 2021-22 season today at home against #12-ranked Mount Saint Joseph at 6 p.m. … The squads will run JV bouts after the varsity contest has concluded ... Ohio Northern is riding a 6-dual match win streak ... Northern is coming off a solid performance at the non-scoring Wilkes (Pa.) Invitational on Dec. 22 ... Senior Jordan Hardrick (165), junior Logan Painter (285) and freshman Jacob Reed (141) each won individual weight class titles to lead Ohio Northern ... Reed and senior Cash Thompson are ranked as Honorable Mention (19-26th ranking) at 141 and 197 pounds, respectively, in the latest D3wrestle.com poll ... Reed leads the Polar Bears with a 20-1 record and 8 pins ... Senior Schuyler Caprella is second with a 17-8 mark and a team-best 6 tech falls ... The Polar Bears will return to action Friday and Saturday at the Lycoming (Pa.) Duals ... The Lions are ranked #12 nationally by IntermatWrestle.com ... MSJ defeated Otterbein 29-24 and fell to Heidelberg 34-16, #13 Wisconsin-Oshkosh 50-6 and Adrian (Mich.) 33-11 at the Heidelberg Duals on Dec. 18 ... Thus far this season, freshman Cookie Armstrong leads the team with an 11-3 record at 184 and 197 pounds .... Junior Cornell Beachem is ranked #1 at 174 pounds and senior Antonio McCloud is ranked #4 at 184.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Wins | Pins | Tech Falls | Maj. Dec. | |||||||||||
| 1. | Reed | 20-1 | 1. | Reed | 8 | 1. | Caprella | 6 | 1. | Reed | 5 | |||
| 2. | Caprella | 17-8 | 2. | Thompson | 7 | 2. | Le | 3 | 2. | Le | 3 | |||
| 3. | Hardrick | 16-2 | DePrest | 7 | Hendricks | 3 | Hardrick | 3 |
Head Coach Ron Beaschler: Beaschler is in his 34th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern wrestling program and currently stands as the longest-tenured head wrestling coach at the institution ... He sports a 347-245-4 career coaching record in dual action, a winning percentage of .582, making him the all-time winningest coach in program history ... Beaschler was inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Hall of Fame in 2008 and has been named OAC Coach of the Year three times in 1993, 2012, and 2013.
