Chadron Wrestling Dual/Tournament 1-12/1-13

          The Chadron wrestling team went to Ogallala on January 12 for a dual. The next day they went to Gothenburg to a wrestling tournament. In the Ogallala duel the score was Chadron with 57 points and Ogallala with 21 points. They placed 5th in the Gothenburg tournament.
          Sophomore, Sawyer Haag, said, "The dual went great. I pinned him [his opponent] in the first period; one period is two minutes and you get to go three periods. I scored 6 points for the team in the dual, because I pinned the Ogallala kid." The next day at the Gothenburg tournament, Sawyer went 3-2.
          Senior, Jake Lemmon said, "The competition I went against in the dual was not the fiercest, and I took away good wins that will look good in districts." In the Gothenburg tournament, Jake went 5-0.
          Coach Slingsby stated that the wrestling team had weaknesses and strengths in the dual and tournament. The weakness was that they were inexperienced in ways, because they had some young guys representing some of the weight classes. "Our strength was being in very good condition and using that to our advantage," said Slingsby.
          "To be able to do well at districts, we just have to improve each time we wrestle, and we need to put our moves together, which is called chain wrestling. We have to be the best wrestlers we can be so that we can do well at districts and take home a lot of wins. This means that we can't give up if we don't do well in one match and just have to keep going hard," said Coach Slingsby.