MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 18 West Virginia College wrestling staff enters its first Massive 12 matchup of the season in opposition to California Baptist in a particular off-campus twin at Oak Glen Excessive College in New Cumberland, West Virginia, on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. ET.
Reside Stats from the twin might be out there by means of Trackwrestling, whereas followers may buy tickets for $7 by contacting Oak Glen Excessive.
“Being at Oak Glen is cool. It is a neat factor for fifth-year senior Peyton Corridor who’s actually been an enormous half in rebuilding our program,” seventh-year WVU coach Tim Flynn mentioned. “The one factor that we have been engaged on is making an attempt to remain mentally focus for the whole seven-minute match as I feel we now have actually good wrestlers, however we’ve not been capable of put collectively full matches.”
Sunday’s twin marks the primary assembly between West Virginia and California Baptist in historical past, following CBU’s transition to Division I from Division II to start the 2018-2019 season and later incomes affiliate membership standing with the Massive 12 to start out the 2022-2023 marketing campaign.
Coach Dereke Moore leads the Lancers in his third season on the helm after spending 4 seasons as an assistant from 2017-2022, earlier than transitioning to interim head coach in Might of 2022 and transferring to the place full time 4 months later. Since taking up, Moore has guided this system into the Massive 12 Convention, incomes its first-ever ranked victory over No. 19 Air Drive in addition to this system’s first two NCAA qualifiers through the 2024 marketing campaign.
Within the newest polls, West Virginia makes its seventh straight look within the prime 25 of the NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Ballot, remaining at No. 18 for the third consecutive week. Six Mountaineers additionally stay within the sixth version of FloWrestling’s rankings, together with No. 14 Jordan Titus (141), No. 3 Ty Watters (149), No. 3 Peyton Corridor (165), No. 29 Brody Conley (174), No. 26 Dennis Robin (184) and No. 31 Austin Cooley (197).
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