Chattanooga blanks VMI 46-0 behind a middle‑weight bonus barrage
The Mocs piled up pins, tech falls and majors in Lexington to turn a tight opening sequence into a one‑sided Southern Conference road win.
Chattanooga shut out Virginia Military Institute 46-0 in Cormack Hall on Feb. 6, leaving the Keydets scoreless in a dominant SoCon dual.
The tone came early. No. 24 Cooper Flynn opened with a first‑period pin at 125 — a six‑point swing that fed Chattanooga’s momentum and set the Mocs on their way. The takedown that precipitated the finish came late in the first period and flipped the bout decisively.
Back‑to‑back technical falls from Ethan Uhorchuk (15-0 at 133) and Hunter Mason (17-2 at 141) turned the dual into a runaway. Uhorchuk racked up multiple near‑falls in the first period en route to the technical, and Mason’s tech fall kept the pressure on VMI through the early portion of the lineup.
The middle weights provided the knockout punch. Mason Reiniche’s fall at 165 essentially clinched the dual, and Chattanooga added more bonus with Landon Jones and Kade Rule both securing technical falls later in the lineup. The Mocs also collected major decisions to pad the final margin.
VMI’s closest moments were narrow decisions in the midweights — Eric Doran pushed to a 6-4 match at 157 and Beau Lewis battled to a 10-4 result at 174 — but the Keydets couldn’t produce any bonus results to chip away at Chattanooga’s lead.
Chattanooga finished the night with a heavy bonus haul — two pins, several tech falls and majors that produced a large share of the 46 points — and leave Lexington 6-5 (3-1 SoCon) while VMI fell to 4-6 (0-3). The Keydets will turn around and host Davidson next.
The shutout was as much a product of early aggression as it was depth: a string of bonus outcomes in the middle and late weights turned competitive bouts into a comprehensive road victory for the Mocs.