SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- No. 24 ranked Mount Union suffered a close loss to No. 18 ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater in the consolation semifinals of the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals Sunday morning in Springfield, Ill.

Mount Union will now take on No. 7 ranked St. John's (Minn.) in the seventh place match.  The two teams met yesterday with the Purple Raiders winning 20-19.

Mount Union won four matches highlighted by a pin at 285 from All-American senior Derick Hesson (Dexter City/Caldwell).  The Raiders also got decisions from seniors Josh Malave (Rocky River/Lutheran West) at 141 and Kevin Shadrach (Parma/Parma) at 149 along with junior Jeremy Hathaway (Cuyahoga Falls/Woodridge) at 174.

The match turned on a pair of narrow Whitewater wins at 125 (5-2) and 184 (5-3).

#18 Wisconsin-Whitewater 20, #24 Mount Union 15

Match Summary
125 Mike Schloegel (Wisconsin-Whitewater) over Brad Kress (Mount Union) Dec 5-2 
133 Jake Fredrickson (Wisconsin-Whitewater) over Bryant Roby (Mount Union) Dec 8-2 
141 Josh Malave (Mount Union) over Elroy Perkin (Wisconsin-Whitewater) Dec 13-6 
149 Kevin Shadrach (Mount Union) over Brian Lewis (Wisconsin-Whitewater) Dec 2-0 
157 Corey Schmidt (Wisconsin-Whitewater) over Jon Garrison (Mount Union) Maj 17-6 
165 Cedric Gibson (Wisconsin-Whitewater) over Joe Schindel (Mount Union) Maj 16-4 
174 Jeremy Hathaway (Mount Union) over Reid Dickerson (Wisconsin-Whitewater) Dec 5-1 
184 David Dwyer (Wisconsin-Whitewater) over Andy Jenkins (Mount Union) Dec 5-3 
197 Justin Birschbach (Wisconsin-Whitewater) over Darin Lyles (Mount Union) Dec 7-0 
285 Derick Hesson (Mount Union) over Corey Anderson (Wisconsin-Whitewater) Pin 2:26