Takedown Report

UTC tops Campbell to earn share of SoCon regular season title

With a share of the Southern Conference regular season title on the line, first-year head coach Kyle Ruschell and his staff guided the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestling team to a gutty 18-12 win over No. 25 Campbell in Maclellan Gym today.  UTC took six of the 10 matches in a clean dual that did not see either team score any bonus points. The Mocs move to 7-6 overall and close out its SoCon slate with a 5-1 mark. Both Appalachian State (6-6, 3-1 SoCon) and Campbell (5-1, 3-1 SoCon) have one conference loss each, and will likely share the league crown with Chattanooga.

“This is one that we marked early in the year,” stated Ruschell. “We knew it was home, we knew it was going to be tight and if we wrestled like that, we knew we could win. “There were two or three that we were supposed to win. There were two or three that they were supposed to win, but our guys fought hard. Everything we’ve been preaching, it all came together.” After the Mocs went up 12-6 through six bouts, Campbell closed the gap with victories at 174 and 184. Freshman Hunter Fortner made it very interesting against the Camels’ 17th-ranked Andrew Morgan, before falling 9-4. 
Rest of the story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/21422

February 10, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized