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Fischer's three wins lead SOU at Reno T.O.C.

12/18/2016 8:40:00 PM

RENO, Nev. – Heavyweight Alejandro Sandoval and 174-pounder Andrew Orr were stopped in their quarterfinal rounds Sunday as Southern Oregon left the Reno Tournament of Champions without any placers.

Tanner Fischer led the Raiders with three wins on the day at 197 pounds. He won his first match against Stanford's David Showunmi, 9-2, before Simon Fraser's Morgan Smith sent him to the consolation bracket in a 17-2 technical fall. There, he pinned Montana State-Northern's Dace Fisher in 1:39 and won a 12-7 decision against Southwest Oregon's Wyatt Westfall, but was cut off one win short of a placing bout when Colorado Mesa's Jared Aziz pinned him in the first period.

Following an opening-round bye, Sandoval only needed one win to reach the quarters and got it by fall in 6:07 against Clackamas's Joey Alvarez. His run ended with losses to Michigan State's Jacob Cooper (12-1) and Cal State Bakersfield's Dominic Balmer (5-3).

Orr took a pair of decisions in the championship bracket, 7-1 against Bakersfield's Bryan Battisto and 3-1 against Colorado State-Pueblo's Kyle Bateman. He then lost two in a row by technical fall, 16-0 to Colorado Mesa's Bruno Nicoletti and 17-2 against Campbell's Andrew Morgan.

Devin Poppen (141) and Tyler Cowger (149) both picked up two wins. Poppen pinned Arizona State's Tyler Sage in 4:57 in an opening-round matchup and defeated MSU-Northern's Dylan Veis 11-4 before he was stopped short of the quarterfinal's by Stanford's Require Van Der Merwe, 6-2. Cowger dropped his opening-round match, 8-2 against Oklahoma State's Geordan Martinez, but won two consolations with bonus points: 11-2 over Fresno State's Khristian Olivas and in a second-round pin of Arizona's Alex Colpo. Cowger's day ended when he was pinned by Stanford's Jake Barry.

Casey Coulter and Hunter Hodges scored a consolation win apiece.

The Raiders will pick up on Jan. 5 and 6 at the NWCA-NAIA National Duals in Fort Wayne, Ind.

 
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