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Taking the mat against four NAIA top-20 opponents on Saturday afternoon at the Warrior Duals, Lourdes dropped all four contests inside the Warrior Athletic Center in Fort Wayne, Ind.
 
The Gray Wolves began the day suffering a 28-15 setback to #4 Cumberlands before falling 40-6 to host No. 2 Indiana Tech in match two.  Lourdes then fell 40-3 to 15^th-ranked Campbellsville before being shutout by 18^th-ranked Marian 49-0.
 
"The Indiana Tech duals were as tough as we anticipated them to be," head coach Dock Kelly III said afterwards.  "I'm disappointed in our overall team performance today.  All of the teams that we wrestled were nationally-ranked, so we clearly have some work to do before we are ready to become a top-15 wrestling program."
 
In the opening match against Cumberlands (2-0), Tyler Roberts (Hudson, Mich./Hudson H.S.) scored an 8-6 decision at 133 pounds and Chris Jedding (Mason, Ohio/Mason H.S.) followed with a 5-3 triumph to even the match 6-6 through three bouts. 
 
The Patriots won the next four contests before Noah Clary (Upper Sandusky, Ohio/Upper Sandusky H.S.) recorded a fall at 184 with just five seconds remaining in his match.  Alec Moore-Nash (Price Hill, Ohio/Elder H.S.) closed the match with a 6-5 decision at 285 pounds over the third-ranked wrestler in NAIA in his weight class, Aaron Johnson.
 
Against Indiana Tech (2-0), the hosts scored victories in each of the first nine contests before Derek Elrod (Ashtabula, Ohio/Saint John H.S.) snapped the shutout.  The freshman recorded a pin with 10 seconds remaining in the third period at 285 pounds to give the Gray Wolves their lone win of the contest.
 
In the Campbellsville match, Garret Anderson (Oregon, Ohio/Clay H.S.) accounted for Lourdes' lone victory, a 5-4 decision over Jaedin Sklapsky, who is ranked sixth nationally in the 149-pound weight class.
 
Lourdes was unable to break through the win column against Marian, with Garrett Carter (Macedonia, Ohio/Saint Vincent-Saint Mary H.S.) involved in the closest match, a 4-2 decision in his setback at 149 pounds.
 
"We have now reached a critical juncture of the schedule," Kelly added.  "How we train over the Christmas break is going to determine how successful we are in January and February.  I'm still very optimistic about the number of guys that we can get through to nationals.  We just have to continue working hard and executing our technique."
 
Lourdes (5-7) will have just over a month off for the holidays before returning to the mat on Jan. 9 for a tri-match against Case Western and Thiel.  The opening bout is set for 6 p.m. inside Horsburgh Gymnasium in Cleveland, Ohio on the Case Western campus.