The Dragon wrestling team started their season with a great weekend of wrestling at the Dahlke Duals in American Falls. The tournament hosts 20 teams from all over Idaho.  The Dragons wrestled 9 tough teams over the two days and walked away with 9 team wins and 4 undefeated wrestlers.  On Friday Malad wrestled against last years 2a state champions New Plymouth and got the win 46-36. “This was a huge win for us, it let us see how we measure up against the best in the state.” Wrestling several 4a and 3a teams the Dragons saw plenty of tough matches and did an amazing job against everyone of them. 

Four Malad wrestlers went undefeated at the tournament, Jack Willie, Kimball Carter, Drake Morrison and Lex Driskel. 

With the way the tournament is set up each team takes their varsity team to compete and any JV wrestlers they bring are put on teams that are needing to fill that weight class. Malad’s JV wrestlers did some great wrestling and got a lot of experience over the weekend. Josh Davis coached the JV wrestlers and was very impressed with the way they wrestled throughout the entire  tournament.  “All of our JV wrestlers did very well despite wrestling in a very competitive Varsity tournament. We have a lot to work on but we also have a lot to be proud of. Every wrestler fought hard and learned a lot along the way. It was a great bonding experience for our team and also for our wrestlers to work with other teams and take part in their lineup. I heard nothing but great things about our wrestlers from the other coaches in the tournament.”

It was the perfect way to start a very busy season of wrestling. 

The Lady Dragons started their season at the girls team tournament in Grace on Friday and did some amazing wrestling. This tournament was the first for many of our girls and everyone of them got a win. The Lady Dragons  won themselves a 3rd place trophy as a team!  Coach Clark “We are so proud of these amazing girls and the work they are putting in, it will be a great season for these girls.”