COMPLETE SPOKANE OPEN RESULTS

SPOKANE, Wash. – Tyler Cowger, Devin Poppen and Hunter Hodges won individual titles for the Southern Oregon men's wrestling team Sunday at the Spokane Open.

The Raiders had five additional placers: Oscar Flores and Max Hane made the third-place match at 184 pounds, Louis Dix was fifth at 133, Chandler Michael was sixth at 157 and Alejandro Sandoval was sixth at 285.

Hodges, a redshirt-sophomore who is ranked third at 157 and was coming off four straight dual wins, went 5-0 on the day and started with two pins. He finished up with three straight decisions, defeating Clackamas's Ralph Tovar by 6-4 sudden victory in the quarterfinals, Clackamas's Jasiah Williams (8-2) in the semifinals and Montana State-Northern's Brandon Weber (9-5) in the first-place match.

Cowger, ranked second in the NAIA at 149 pounds, brought his season record to 11-0 with five victories, including a pair of falls. He shut out Simon Fraser's Kenji Yamashita, 4-0, in the quarterfinals, pinned North Idaho's Thomas Stevenson in 4:22 in the semis, and held on for a 3-2 win against Clackamas's Chirstopher Garcia in the finals.

Poppen, ranked 14th at 141, also went 5-0 with two pins. He took Clackamas's Jerry Mealey in a 4-0 decision ni the semifinals, pinned MSU-Northern's Clayton Carter in 6:16 in the semis, and defeated Eastern Oregon's Tyler Miller, 7-4, for the title.

Flores and Hane did not contest the 184-pound third-place match. To get there, Flores went 3-1 with three decisions and Hane went 3-1 with two technical falls and a major decision.

A backup at 133, Dix impressed with two wins by fall, two major decisions and one decision on the day. In the fifth-place match, he pinned Portland State's Tony Lucas in 20 seconds.

Michael went 4-3 with at 157, while Sandoval reached the heavyweight semifinals with two decisions and an 11-1 major decision over Fraser Valley's Brad Hildenbradt in the quarters.

The Raiders return to action on Dec. 2 with a 7 p.m. dual against San Francisco State at Ashland Middle School.