INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - No.5 McKendree University men's wrestling junior Joshua Jones captured not only a win over the top-ranked 174lb wrestler this past week but collected his first career Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) weekly honor, as announced by the league office on Tuesday morning. Jones owns a 12-5 record on the year and marks the Bearcats second GLVC weekly award winner on the season. No.5 McKendree went 2-0 this past week with a win against two GLVC foes in William Jewell (1/30, 42-6) and No.7 UIndy (1/26, 18-14). 

Jones, a native of Chicago Heights, Illinois, went 1-0 on the week with a decision win (4-1) against conference foe and top-ranked 174-pound wrestler, Andrew Sims of Indianapolis. The win over Sims came in a tightly contested match between the No.5 Bearcats and the No.7 Greyhounds but served the the tying dual matchup and knotted the top-10 dual up at 12 team points each. In the 174 matchup overall, Sams owned a 1-0 advantage in the first two period and five minutes but Jones fought back with four points in the final two minutes, including a takedown to close out the period, pushing his lead to 4-1 over the top-ranked Greyhounds' wrestler. 

The win in the match for Jones moved momentum back to the fifth-ranked Bearcats, allowing for two more wins in the final three dual matchups by the 184 (Daniel Filipek) and the heavyweight (Ian Kuehl) wrestlers. The No.5 Bearcats came away with an 18-14 win over the seventh-ranked UIndy Greyhounds, which marked an eighth-straight win for McKendree. 

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No.5 McKendree men's wrestling will be back on action on Friday, February 5, and Saturday, February 6, at the University of Indianapolis for the Greyhound Duals (2/5) and the Greyhound Open (2/6).