By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n
KEARNEY, Neb. – The No. 12 ranked Fort Hays State wrestling team left the Midwest Duals empty-handed after dropping the opening dual to Colorado Mesa, 24-23, and then falling to No. 7 ranked CSU-Pueblo by a score of 19-15. The Tigers are now 1-7 in duals, while the Mavericks move to 7-6 and the ThunderWolves go to 9-2 this season.<\/p>\n
#12 FHSU 23, Colorado Mesa 24<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tigers began their day with a dual against the Mavericks. In the first match of the dual, Broderick Green<\/a> earned a 3-0 decision, giving the Tigers the early advantage. No. 2 ranked Brandon Ball<\/a> earned a 6-2 decision over No. 10 ranked Eduardo Penha. Ryne Cokeley<\/a> bounced back in a big way by pinning Daniel Van Hoose in 0:34. The Tigers earned another five points when No. 4 ranked Efe Osaghae<\/a> used a commanding 16-0 technical fall to defeat Luke Au-Yeung at 157 pounds. After dropping the next four bouts, FHSU was looking for anything from A.J. Cooper<\/a> in the final bout of the dual. The sophomore from Cimarron, Kan. delivered in big way, earning a pin over Hunter Mooring in the final minute of the third period. The fall tied the match at 23-23 after the ten matchups. Colorado Mesa earned the victory after earning a team point due to a tie-breaking procedure.<\/p>\n #12 FHSU 15, #7 CSU-Pueblo 19<\/strong><\/p>\n After losing the first two bouts to decisions, the Tigers earned nine points thanks to Brandon Ball<\/a>, Ryne Cokeley<\/a> and Efe Osaghae<\/a>. Ball picked up a 1-0 decision over Paul Garcia at 141-pounds. Cokeley earned his third victory of the season with a 5-1 decision over Oscar Diaz in the 149-pound bout and Osaghae narrowly earned a 5-3 decision over Isaiah Diggs at 157 pounds. The Tigers tacked on six more points in the dual with decisions from both No. 9 Marty Verhaeghe<\/a> and Micquille Robinson<\/a>. Verhaeghe (174 pounds) bounced back with a 7-2 win over Jair Flores and Robinson squeezed past Maxwell Martell, 6-5, at 184 pounds.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State returns home for a home dual against No. 19 ranked Western State next weekend (Jan. 25). The Tigers and Mountaineers will step on the mat inside Gross Memorial Coliseum beginning at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KEARNEY, Neb. – The No. 12 ranked Fort Hays State wrestling team left the Midwest Duals empty-handed after dropping the opening… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43245,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244\/revisions\/43245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}