FERRUM, Virginia -- #19 Ferrum College secured five pins en route to a non-conference home wrestling dual meet win over McDaniel College, winning 44-8 tonight at Swartz Gym.

RECORDS
Ferrum (1-0)
McDaniel (0-3)

THE BASICS
The match started with Zach Beckner (125 lbs) winning by disqualification over McDaniel's Alex DuFour following an unsportsmanlike behavior call against DuFour. Trent Proctor (133) followed with a solid tech fall for the Panthers, then Josiah Canales (141) posted Ferrum's first pin of the night to put Ferrum on top 16-0.

Thomas Monn and Xavier Howard posted back-to-back major decisions for McDaniel, cutting the team score to 16-8. It was all Ferrum from there as the Panthers won the last five weight classes. Gabriel Cortez (165) stopped his opponent with a first period pin in 1:09, and William Melton (174) matched that with a pin at the 1:40 mark to make the team score 28-8. 

Joseph Toner (184) pulled away in the third period and closed his patch with an 18-7 major decision to make it 32-8, then Sam Slate (197) and Rayshawn Dixon (285) picked up pins at 1:08 and 1:39, respectively, to close out the night. The win avenged last year's 35-13 loss at McDaniel in Westminster, Maryland.

BOX SCORE
125: Zach Beckner (Ferrum) over Alex DuFour (McDaniel) (DQ)  0:37
133: Trent Proctor (Ferrum) over William Conley (McDaniel) (MD 16-2)
141: Josiah Canales (Ferrum) over William Terry (McDaniel) (Fall 1:32)
149: Thomas Monn (McDaniel) over Joseph Olalde (Ferrum) (MD 17-6)
157: Xavier Howard (McDaniel) over Robert Owens Jr. (Ferrum) (MD 17-5)
165: Gabriel Cortes (Ferrum) over Nicholas Massengill (McDaniel) (Fall 1:09)
174: William Melton (Ferrum) over Avery Cummings (McDaniel) (Fall 1:40)
184: Joseph Toner (Ferrum) over Soren Wynn (McDaniel) (MD 18-7)
197: Sam Slate (Ferrum) over Brady Wilt (McDaniel) (Fall 1:08)
285: Rayshawn Dixon (Ferrum) over Kaden Bryan (McDaniel) (Fall 1:39)

UP NEXT
Coach Logan Meister's team will be back in action Saturday, December 7, at the Bluejay Classic, hosted by Elizabethtown Copllege.