Wrestling rebounds against Air Force

Feb. 9, 2016, 1:47 a.m.

No. 18 Stanford wrestling (10-3, 2-2 Pac-12) bounced back from a tough loss to Oregon State with a 23-16 victory over Air Force (5-5, 0-3 Big 12) on Saturday in Colorado Springs, spurred by major decisions from Garet Krohn and Nathan Butler and a pin by freshman Joey McKenna.

Joey McKenna. Photo by Rahim Ullah
Stanford freshman Joey McKenna (above left) won his match with a pin  in the Cardinal’s victory against Air Force. (RAHIM ULLAH/The Stanford Daily)

Butler, ranked No. 20 in the nation at 285, led off the meet with a 9-0 major decision over Marcus Malacek, spurred by a 4-point near fall in the second period that opened the floodgates. Redshirt sophomore Connor Schram followed that up with an 8-4 decision at 125 to push Stanford’s lead to 7-0 and get the meet started on a high note.

Although Mason Pengilly took a second straight loss at 133, McKenna pinned Dylan Hyder of Air Force in 6:50 for his fourth pin of the season at 141 to stretch Stanford’s lead, which was extended further by redshirt sophomore Tommy Pawelski’s 3-1 sudden victory at 149.

Redshirt junior Jim Wilson tacked on a 5-1 decision at 165 and redshirt sophomore Garet Krohn claimed his second major decision of the season, a 12-2 tally over Zen Ikehara at 184, to push Stanford’s lead to 23-12 with one bout left and put the meet out of reach.

Stanford will next return to Burnham Pavilion for Senior Night and its conference and home finale against Boise State on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

 

Contact Do-Hyoung Park at dhpark ‘at’ stanford.edu.

Do-Hyoung Park '16, M.S. '17 is the Minnesota Twins beat reporter at MLB.com, having somehow ensured that his endless hours sunk into The Daily became a shockingly viable career. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer and Business Manager at The Stanford Daily for FY17-18. He also covered Stanford football and baseball for five seasons as a student and served two terms as sports editor and four terms on the copy desk. He was also a color commentator for KZSU 90.1 FM's football broadcast team for the 2015-16 Rose Bowl season.

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