Lights wrestlers defeat Ricks

The Montana State University-Northern Lights wrestlers have not competed at home since Nov. 8, but traveling on the road hasn't seemed to bother the wrestlers at all as they defeated Ricks College 33-18 on Saturday.

Tyson Thivierge highlighted the Lights with a 17-1 technical fall over Steve Babcock. Carl Valley, Caleb Schaeffer, Kyle Fisher and Emmett Willson also won by pinning each of their opponents, while Kyle Nay added a 16-7 victory by decision.

The Lights are at Northwest College on Saturday with competition slated to begin at 7:30 p.m.

The following are the results from the dual meet over Ricks College:

125 Carl Valley won by fall in 56 seconds over Tyler Price

133 Caleb Schaeffer won by fall in 4:15 over Jake Summers

141 Kyle Nay won by decision 16-7 over Doug Ireland

149 B.J. Wright (Ricks) defeated Dustyn Azure in 39 seconds

157 Bobby Mantle lost to Jake Wright 6-5

165 Mike Lester lost to Pete Mecham 9-7

174 Kyle Fisher won by fall in 5:43 over David Anderson

184 Tyson Thivierge won by technical fall in 5:24 over Steve Babcock

197 Emmett Willson won by fall in 5:17 over Braden Hansen

HWT Robert Perkes (Ricks) won by fall in 3:23 over Trevor Nelson