Wrestling News

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Junior David Penny finished among the top 16 wrestlers in the 125-pound weight class with a 1-2 record Friday at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at U.S. Cellular Arena.

Penny (29-10) posted a 7-4 victory over Jerrod Hoxie of Heidelberg in the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket early Friday evening, but was was eliminated just one win shy of earning All-America honors with a 7-1 loss to No. 7 seeded Munkhbaatar Baatar of St. John's (Minn.) late Friday night in the consolation semifinals.

Against Hoxie, Penny got a takedown and a 3-point near fall in the first 30 seconds to take a very quick 5-0 lead and made it hold up.

Six Ohio Northern male athletes earned At-Large Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors as voted upon by conference's ten faculty representatives.

Seniors Chase Cummings (Tulsa, Okla./Liberty-Benton), Wes Immler (Lorain/Amherst Steele) and juniors Ryan Paul (West Milton/Milton-Union) and Kyle Webb (Wapakoneta) earned First Team honors while junior David Penny (Union/Milton-Union) and Brett Kuhn (Tiffin/Columbian) garnered Honorable Mention honors.

Immler, Cummings

ADA - Six Ohio Northern male athletes earned At-Large Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors as voted upon by conference's ten faculty representatives.

Seniors Chase Cummings (Tulsa, Okla./Liberty-Benton), Wes Immler (Lorain/Amherst Steele) and juniors Ryan Paul (West Milton/Milton-Union) and Kyle Webb (Wapakoneta) earned First Team honors while junior David Penny (Union/Milton-Union) and Brett Kuhn (Tiffin/Columbian) garnered Honorable Mention honors.

Ron Beaschler

Ohio Northern wrestling coach Ron Beaschler was inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame during the NWCA banquet on Thursday evening in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The ceremony took place the evening before the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships got underway Friday and Saturday.

A McCutchensville, Ohio, native, Beaschler is the chairperson of the Human Performance and Sport Sciences department at ONU. He also is an assistant professor in the department and coordinates the sport management program at Ohio Northern.

Plowman, David Penny earn bids to compete at the NCAA Championships Mar. 7-8 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa

OAC Championships Site

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS — Senior Ben Plowman went 2-0 and earned his third consecutive conference championship as Ohio Northern finished third at the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships hosted by John Carroll University in the DeCarlo Varsity Center on Saturday.