Ernst earns GPAC Wrestler of the Week in Week 11

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — For the second time this season, Morningside junior Zander Ernst was named Wednesday as the Great Plains Athletic Conference men's wrestler of the week.

Ernst — ranked third in the NAIA at 165 pounds — won both his matches this week, and both by convincing fashion. He first defeated 20th-ranked Jackson Remmers of Dakota Wesleyan with a 10-1 major decision. Ernst scored seven points in the third period.

Then, on Friday against Briar Cliff, the Sergeant Bluff-Luton High School alum beat his Charger counterpart, Jackson Balmer, 20-6. He jumped out to a 3-1 lead, and put up 10 points during the second period.

On the season, Ernst is 13-0. He has won seven times by technical fall. Ernst previously won Wrestler of the Week back in November.