BEREA, OHIO -- The Mount Union College wrestling team defeated Baldwin Wallace College, 31-6, tonight (Tuesday, January 20, 2009) in an Ohio Athletic Conference dual meet in the Timken Physical Education Building in Alliance.

With its win, the Purple Raiders improve to 3-3 overall and 2-1 in the OAC.  With its loss, BW is now 2-18 overall and 0-4 in the OAC.

Individually for the Yellow Jackets, Jeremy Dom Brady scored his first victory of the season at 125 pounds with a 3-1 decision against Mount Union's Justin Loth.  Sophomore 174-pounder Andrew Scavuzzo (Cuyahoga Falls/ Woodridge) defeated Mount Union's Andy Jenkins, 6-4, to improve to 17-8 overall and 5-2 at 174 pounds.

The Yellow Jacket wrestlers are back in action next Tuesday, January 27 when they host OAC foe Ohio Northern University in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in the Lou Higgins Recreation Center in Berea at 7:30 p.m.

FOR  MORE  INFORMATION, please contact Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at (440) 826-2327 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu. To contact Head Coach Rich Fleming, please call him at  (440) 826-3258 or e-mail him at rfleming@bw.edu.  The athletics FAX can be reached at (440) 826-2192.  More information on wrestling may be accessed on the BW athletics page at www.bw.edu/athletics.

Timken Physical Education Building; Tuesday, January 20

FINAL SCORE: Mount Union -- 31, Baldwin Wallace -- 6

125: Brady (BW) defeated Toth (MUC), 3-1
133: Arnone (MUC) def. Bucher (BW), 4-2
141: Cintron (MUC) major decision over Payne (BW), 10-0
149: Dreger (MUC) maj. dec. over Levitsky (BW), 19-6
157: Skoff (MUC) def. Haber (BW), 8-1
165: Manypenny (MUC) def. Incorvaia (BW), 6-0
174: Scavuzzo (BW) def. Jenkins (MUC), 6-4
184: Hataway (MUC) def. Leonhard (BW), 7-6
197: Schindel (MUC) maj. dec. over Tudor, 16-0
285: Hesson (MUC) pinned Haynes (BW), 0:36.