LEBANON, Ill. – For the second consecutive season the UIndy wrestling team took home fourth place honors at the GLVC Championships. The Greyhounds went 1-2 on the day, with a dominant win over the No. 5-seed, Quincy, and had a battle against top-seeded McKendree, which was decided by just nine points combined between the 10 matches.

The team picked up 16 individual wins on the day, including a perfect 3-0 day from Cale Gray (285) and a 2-0 days from Aidan Sprague (133), Nathan Smith (125), and Zach Haughton (141).

INS & OUTS
The Greyhounds almost completed the clean sweep in the team's first dual of the day, picking up wins in nine of 10 matches against Quincy. The day started with major decision wins at both 125 and 133 from Smith and Sprague, before the Hounds reeled off two pin fall victories, two decisions and a tech fall win. 

The two pin fall wins came from Gavin Garcia with a first period fall at 149, while Logan Farnell (157) garnered a second period pin fall win after jumping out to a commanding 9-0 lead. Shane Bates at 165 kept the momentum going, earning five team points with a third period tech fall win that ended due to two third period take downs. 

Zach Haughton (141) and the freshman Michael Ortega (157) picked up the two decision wins with both guys needing a defensive minded third period to claim their three point wins. 

Ethan Farnell (197) and Cale Gray (285) closed out the day for UIndy with two tech fall wins by a combined 33-3 score between the two of them, which ultimately concluded the Hounds' 41-6 win over Quincy to advance to the semi finals. 

#4 UINDY 41, #5 QUINCY 6
125: No. 12 Nathan Smith over Kaden Rios (MD 14-3)
133: No. 10 Aidan Sprague over Te'Andre Allen (MD 10-2)
141: Zach Haughton over Ashton Gamboa (Dec 4-1)
149: No. 11 Gavin Garcia over Zyan Westbrook (Fall 1:38)
157: Michael Ortega over Isaish Nichols (Dec 9-6)
165: Logan Farnell over Raymond Fernandez (Fall 4:20)
174: Shane Bates over Dalton Schell (TF 18-2 5:58)
184: No. 10 Callan Ivy over Unknown (Forf.)
197: Ethan Farnell over Judah Yates (TF 17-2 2:24)
285: No. 11 Cale Gray over Caleb Groff (TF 16-1 6:47)

INS & OUTS
The Greyhounds jumped out to an early 10-4 lead over the Bearcats with two decision wins from Smith (125) and Garcia (149), while Sprague's big eight point second period propelled him to a win at 133.

Following UIndy's early six point lead, the Bearcats went on a five match win streak to retake the lead by 12. Even though there were five straight wins, four of these five matches were dog fights. With the matches at 174, 184, and 197 being battles to the very end. 

Bates and Waltz were tied at 0-0 headed into the third period, and Waltz captured an early third period escape to take a 1-0 with riding time on his side. With Bates needing a take down, he took multiple shots, but was unsuccessful, ending the match with a 2-0 defeat.

Similarly to the 174 bout, the 184 bout between Chavez and Johnson resulted in a similar outcome, with Chavez needing a third period take down after falling down 1-0 in the third with Johnson controlling the match's riding time, he wasn't able to take Johnson down and fell 2-0 as well. 

Now down six points, the freshman Farnell needed to pull off the upset against the No. 5-ranked Kvien at 197. Farnell fell behind in the second period due to a take down, and needed one of his own to send the match to sudden victory. Farnell had his chance with 40 seconds left in the match to take down Kvien, but Kvien was able to use a reversal of Farnell's take down attempt to give him the 5-0 win the Bearcats needed to advance. 

Gray (285) capped off the dual with a 7-0 decision win with a take down, reversal, a penalty and riding time, to capture his second win of the day.

#4 UINDY 13, #1 McKENDREE 22
125: No. 12 Nathan Smith over Colton King (Dec 5-3)
133: No. 10 Aidan Sprague over Giovanni Diaz (MD 9-1)
141: No. 9 Ronan Schuelke over Toby Billerman (MD 9-0)
149: No. 11 Gavin Garcia over Caleb Lavine (Dec 5-1)
157: No. 15 James Hoskinson over Michael Ortega (Dec 7-1)
165: No. 4 Sam Richardson over Logan Farnell (Fall 4:14)
174: Zeke Waltz over Shane Bates (Dec 2-0)
184: No. 6 Darion Johnson over Christian Chavez (Dec 2-0)
197: No. 5 Logan Kvien over Ethan Farnell (Dec 5-0)
285: No. 11 Cale Gray over Drake Champlin (MD 7-0)

INS & OUTS
After falling to the number one team in the GLVC Championships, the Greyhounds found themselves against the two seed in the third place match, Upper Iowa.

Zach Haughton (141), Christian Chavez (184) and Cale Gray (285) all captured the wins in the Greyhounds' final dual of Sunday. Haughton concluded a 2-0 day, after not competing in the team's dual against McKendree, with a 6-3 decision win over Tanner Arjes, which consisted of two take downs in the first and third period. 

Chavez got revenge against Braxton Westendorf in the 184 weight class, using a six point first period to jump out to an early lead, and used a strong defensive showing in the third period to capture a top-15 nationally ranked win for Chavez. 

Gray concluded the day for UIndy with an 18-2 second period tech fall win over Jose DelToro. Gray earned 12 points in the second period, including two straight four-point near falls with under 20 seconds left in the second to close the match out.

Armen Koltookian (197) and Luke Robard (165) made third first two appearances for the Greyhounds in the GLVC Championships in the final dual against the Peacocks.

#5 UINDY 11, #2 UPPER IOWA 30
125: Treyton Ackman over Unknown (Forf.)
133: Dawson Schmit over Jadon Gyan (MD 12-3)
141: Zach Haughton over Tanner Arjes (Dec 6-3)
149: No. 8 Ethan Doty over No. 11 Gavin Garcia (Dec 1-0)
157: Collin Altensey over Michael Ortega (TF 16-1 5:47)
165: Nick Mueller over Logan Farnell (Dec 2-1)
174: Griffin Luke over Luke Robards (MD 17-3)
184: Christian Chavez over No. 15 Braxton Westendorf (Dec 8-4)
197: Matthew Marcum over Armen Koltookian (TF 15-0 4:52)
285: No. 11 Cale Gray over Jose DelToro (TF 18-2 5:00)

UP NEXT
The Hounds will have a few weeks off to prepare for the NCAA Division II Super Regionals on March 1 in Edmond, OK.