No. 8 Upper Iowa hands SMSU its first conference loss of the season

FAYETTE, Iowa – No. 8 Upper Iowa used four bonus bout victories to defeat Southwest Minnesota State 27-9 on Sunday. UIU took seven of ten bouts to improve to 10-1-1 overall, 3-0 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, while SMSU falls to 9-4 overall, 3-1 in the NSIC.

SMSU allowed Upper Iowa to push the 125 and 157 bouts to major decisions with last second takedowns.

Justin Reinsma took down his eighth straight opponent to notch his 23rd win of the season and 104th of his career. The win vaulted him passed Dan Wolf for 5th all-time in program history.

Upper Iowa 27, Southwest Minnesota State 9
125 Chris Paulus, UPIO, maj. dec. Antonio Meikel, SMS, 10-2
133 Justin Reinsma (SMS) sv-1 Matt Paulus (UPIO) 11-9
141 Jordan Roths, UPIO, dec. Ethan Hildebrandt, SMS, 4-1
149 Edwin Cooper, UPIO, maj. dec. Beau Buysse, SMS, 12-4
157 Zak Benitz, UPIO, maj. dec. Codie Lane, SMS, 12-4
165 Dalton Westerlund, UPIO, dec. Kyle Begin, SMS, 8-2
174 Jacob Begin, SMS, dec. Colbey Vance, UPIO, 7-3
184 Andrew Rodas, SMS, dec. Brock Gobin, UPIO, 3-0
197 Carl Broghammer, UPIO, pinned Jon Gorter, SMS, 2:38
285 Logan Hopp (UPIO) sv-1 Cole Wilson (SMS) 6-4