On September 8, 2010, the executive board for Chandler High Wrestling Booster Club was elected for the 2010-2011 season.
President - Lisa Moran
Vice President- Blaise Aki
Secretary - Laurie Brady
Treasurer - Anthony Duenas
This is going to be a great year for all our wrestlers. The parent ran booster club encourages all wrestling parents to come and help the team however you can.
The next meeting for the CHS wrestling booster club will be on September 29th @ 4:00.
Our wrestling season (November 1st) will be here before you know it, and we hope all parents can come and join the planning of the club's fund raising events.
Please join our facebook for more reminders.
Chandler High Wrestling Arizona State Champions 2012!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Chandler's Max Mejia at Fargo Freestyle Nationals 2010
Max Mejia, a senior and captain of Chandler Wolves 2010 wrestling team, competed with some the nation's best wrestler. Fargo Freestyle Nationals is known to be one the country's toughest wrestling tournaments. Wrestling 7 rounds, he was one win away from placing in the top eight. Max did place among the top twelve in the nation.
Wrestling Videos on Flowrestling
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Wrestling Videos on Flowrestling
Check out flowrestling for more matches.
http://www.flowrestling.org/members/coachmejia/videos
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Here is our team Summer Schedule 2010... Attention Chandler Wrestlers!
| May 31 - June 5 | |||||
| Tuesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | ||
| 9 a.m. set up camp | |||||
| 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | in Payne Gym | ||
| 11 a.m. bowling | |||||
| *We expect all wrestlers to attend every session of the camp. This is our main fund-raiser | |||||
| and it is one of the top camps in Arizona. We need your assistance in running this camp. | |||||
| June 7th-11th | |||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | |
| Team Camp @ CHS | Team Camp @ CHS | Team Camp @ CHS | Team Camp @ CHS | Team Camp @ CHS | |
| June 14th - June 25th | |||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| (Coach Landers) | (Coach Landers) | (Coach Landers) | (Coach Landers) | ||
| 7 a.m. weights | 7 a.m. weights | 7 a.m. weights | 7 a.m. weights | ||
| or | or | or | or | ||
| 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | |
| (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | |
| June 28th - July 16th | |||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | |
| (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | |
| July 19th - July 23th | |||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| (Coach Landers) | (Coach Landers) | (Coach Landers) | (Coach Landers) | ||
| 7 a.m. weights | 7 a.m. weights | 7 a.m. weights | 7 a.m. weights | ||
| or | or | or | or | ||
| 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | 3 p.m. weights | |
| (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | (Coach Rosales) | |
| July 26th back to school and back to the normal schedule | |||||
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Chandler Dodges Red Mountain for dual meet win
http://coachesaid.com/Article/2010/1/27/Chandler-Dodges-Red-Mountain-for-dual-meet-win
By Jason P. SkodaCoachesAid.com Content Coordinator
CHANDLER – Chandler wrestling coach Vidal Mejia should think about the team’s nickname to the Dodgers. Throw any bit of praise his way and Mejia sidesteps faster than a Dalton Brady shot.
Not that we saw a shot Wednesday from the impressive Brady, but more on that later.
Back to Mejia.
The Wolves improved to 14-3 in dual meets by beating Mesa Red Mountain 36-24 in an important Fiesta Region dual meet.
Red Mountain came in 29-1 in dual meets and a shot at winning the Fiesta Region in next week’s dual with Mesa, but that match will have less of an impact after Chandler won nine of the 14 matches.
Both teams have been better than expected this season and the Wolves, ranked No. 3 by CoachesAid.com, keep getting stronger. They won last night without defending state champion Max Vidal, who was out of state for a leadership conference.
“We’re getting better,” said the elder Mejia, who team has only lost to Mesa, Cottonwood Mingus and Mesa Mountain View. “We have been working hard. We are getting there.”
See.
The Chandler coach could have given in a little bit there and taken some credit. He gave plenty to his wrestlers, but didn’t put anything on himself when it comes to the team’s rise to a true state contender.
“These kids put in the time and deserve everything they are getting,” the coach said.
The Wolves were down 12-0 after three matches, after it started at 125 pounds, that was kick started by Red Mountain’s Ray Sanchez who beat Brian Devine 15-13 in OT when the former defended Devine’s shot and got the winning takedown.
The Mountain Lions got a pin from Ahmad Zeitoun at 130 and then snagged a big swing match when Matt DeRosa hit a Granby roll in the final seconds for a five-point move and a 8-6 win over JoJo Vega at 135.
“I wasn’t sure what to think after that start, but we came back with some big wins,” Mejia said. “There were a couple of swing matches that we figured we had to win.”
Chandler came back to win the next three matches to tie it at 12 all. The big one came at 145 when Manny Reyes beat Bobby Davis by forcing the action the entire match from the neutral position to carve out a 7-3 won to avenge a previous loss at the McClintock tournament.
“I kind of choked in the first one, but I wrestled a smarter match,” Reyes said. “I knew I could get some takedowns and that is what we stuck with.”
From there it was mostly Chandler as the Wolves won seven of the last nine matches, including heavyweight William Poehls 6-2 win and freshman Clint Sexton defeated Preston Pfeiffle 9-6.
Sexton stepped into the lineup when Brady bumped to 112 with Mejia out of the lineup. Brady ended up getting a forfeit despite the fact that Red Mountain weighed in Logan Bingham and the team score was only 27-24 at the time.
“It’s a credit to Dalton,” Red Mountain coach David DiDomenico said. “He was going to his tech or pin points 1,000 times out of 1,000 times. Bingham has the Mesa City match (for freshman) this weekend and I didn’t want to risk him getting hurt.”
That decision would have been tougher if Chandler’s Sexton didn’t pull off the win the match before.
“He stepped in and did a great job,” Reyes said. “I was really impressed. All of our young wrestlers stepped up.
“I think we were the same team last year, but we are more of a team this year. We are pulling for each other instead of wrestling for ourselves.”
Red Mountain wrestled a good match, but didn’t have enough to finish it off.
“We have some things to work on,” DiDomenico said. “We have move our feet (in neutral position) instead of standing flatfooted and some other things. We’ve come a long way. We were last in the East Valley Region last year and now we are 19-2.
“Give Chandler credit. They won the matches they needed to. We’ll learn from it and we will be better in a month from now for the state tournament.”
Chandler 36, Mesa Red Mountain 24
103 - Clint Sexton (Chandler) dec. Preston Pfeiffle, 9-6
112 - Dalton Brady (Chandler) by forfeit.
119 - Kyle Roberts (Chandler) dec. Nick Rivera, 8-6.
125 - Ray Sanchez (RMtn) dec. Brian Devine, 15-13 OT
130 - Ahmad Zeitoun (RMtn) pin Michael Morrissey, 1:13.
135 - Matt DeRosa (RMtn) dec. JoJo Vega, 8-6.
140 - Curtis Buelna (Chandler) dec. Eric Perez, 1:34.
145 - Manny Reyes (Chandler) dec. Bobby Davis, 7-3.
152 - Alexander Buelna (Chandler) dec. Zack Lott, 5-4.
160 - Patrick Oskvarek (RMtn) by forfeit.
171 - Jacob Vega (Chandler) dec. Nick Farris, 8-4.
189 - Francisco Gutierrez (Chandler) pins Bobby Worth, 3:08.
215 - Kalu Ukaku (RMtn) pin Kalu Ukaku, :35.
HVY - William Poehls (Chandler) dec. Mario Ramirez, 6-2.
CHANDLER – Chandler wrestling coach Vidal Mejia should think about the team’s nickname to the Dodgers. Throw any bit of praise his way and Mejia sidesteps faster than a Dalton Brady shot.
Not that we saw a shot Wednesday from the impressive Brady, but more on that later.
Back to Mejia.
The Wolves improved to 14-3 in dual meets by beating Mesa Red Mountain 36-24 in an important Fiesta Region dual meet.
Red Mountain came in 29-1 in dual meets and a shot at winning the Fiesta Region in next week’s dual with Mesa, but that match will have less of an impact after Chandler won nine of the 14 matches.
Both teams have been better than expected this season and the Wolves, ranked No. 3 by CoachesAid.com, keep getting stronger. They won last night without defending state champion Max Vidal, who was out of state for a leadership conference.
“We’re getting better,” said the elder Mejia, who team has only lost to Mesa, Cottonwood Mingus and Mesa Mountain View. “We have been working hard. We are getting there.”
See.
The Chandler coach could have given in a little bit there and taken some credit. He gave plenty to his wrestlers, but didn’t put anything on himself when it comes to the team’s rise to a true state contender.
“These kids put in the time and deserve everything they are getting,” the coach said.
The Wolves were down 12-0 after three matches, after it started at 125 pounds, that was kick started by Red Mountain’s Ray Sanchez who beat Brian Devine 15-13 in OT when the former defended Devine’s shot and got the winning takedown.
The Mountain Lions got a pin from Ahmad Zeitoun at 130 and then snagged a big swing match when Matt DeRosa hit a Granby roll in the final seconds for a five-point move and a 8-6 win over JoJo Vega at 135.
“I wasn’t sure what to think after that start, but we came back with some big wins,” Mejia said. “There were a couple of swing matches that we figured we had to win.”
Chandler came back to win the next three matches to tie it at 12 all. The big one came at 145 when Manny Reyes beat Bobby Davis by forcing the action the entire match from the neutral position to carve out a 7-3 won to avenge a previous loss at the McClintock tournament.
“I kind of choked in the first one, but I wrestled a smarter match,” Reyes said. “I knew I could get some takedowns and that is what we stuck with.”
From there it was mostly Chandler as the Wolves won seven of the last nine matches, including heavyweight William Poehls 6-2 win and freshman Clint Sexton defeated Preston Pfeiffle 9-6.
Sexton stepped into the lineup when Brady bumped to 112 with Mejia out of the lineup. Brady ended up getting a forfeit despite the fact that Red Mountain weighed in Logan Bingham and the team score was only 27-24 at the time.
“It’s a credit to Dalton,” Red Mountain coach David DiDomenico said. “He was going to his tech or pin points 1,000 times out of 1,000 times. Bingham has the Mesa City match (for freshman) this weekend and I didn’t want to risk him getting hurt.”
That decision would have been tougher if Chandler’s Sexton didn’t pull off the win the match before.
“He stepped in and did a great job,” Reyes said. “I was really impressed. All of our young wrestlers stepped up.
“I think we were the same team last year, but we are more of a team this year. We are pulling for each other instead of wrestling for ourselves.”
Red Mountain wrestled a good match, but didn’t have enough to finish it off.
“We have some things to work on,” DiDomenico said. “We have move our feet (in neutral position) instead of standing flatfooted and some other things. We’ve come a long way. We were last in the East Valley Region last year and now we are 19-2.
“Give Chandler credit. They won the matches they needed to. We’ll learn from it and we will be better in a month from now for the state tournament.”
Chandler 36, Mesa Red Mountain 24
103 - Clint Sexton (Chandler) dec. Preston Pfeiffle, 9-6
112 - Dalton Brady (Chandler) by forfeit.
119 - Kyle Roberts (Chandler) dec. Nick Rivera, 8-6.
125 - Ray Sanchez (RMtn) dec. Brian Devine, 15-13 OT
130 - Ahmad Zeitoun (RMtn) pin Michael Morrissey, 1:13.
135 - Matt DeRosa (RMtn) dec. JoJo Vega, 8-6.
140 - Curtis Buelna (Chandler) dec. Eric Perez, 1:34.
145 - Manny Reyes (Chandler) dec. Bobby Davis, 7-3.
152 - Alexander Buelna (Chandler) dec. Zack Lott, 5-4.
160 - Patrick Oskvarek (RMtn) by forfeit.
171 - Jacob Vega (Chandler) dec. Nick Farris, 8-4.
189 - Francisco Gutierrez (Chandler) pins Bobby Worth, 3:08.
215 - Kalu Ukaku (RMtn) pin Kalu Ukaku, :35.
HVY - William Poehls (Chandler) dec. Mario Ramirez, 6-2.
Friday, February 12, 2010
All-American Wrestling Camp June 7-11, 2010
The All-American Wrestling Camp
provides technical training from National
Champion and All-American wrestling
clinicians as well as the opportunity for
young wrestlers to put their newly
acquired skills to the test in a competition
format. This camp has the highest quality
instruction at an unbelievable value.
Location
The camp is held in Chandler High
School’s Payne Gym and Old Gym.
The school address is
350 N. Arizona Ave.,
Chandler, AZ 85225.
CONTACTS:
Vidal Mejia: (480) 720-8429 cell or email
mejia.vidal@chandler.k12.az.us
Curtis Owen: (602) 750-5863 or email
owen.curtis@chandler.k12.az.us
Feature Clinicians:Eric Larkin: NCAA Champion, 4 x NCAA
All-American for ASU, Dan Hodge Award
Winner for Outstanding Wrestler in 2003.
TJ Williams: 2 x NCAA D-I Champion
and 3 x All-American for the Univ. of Iowa,
NJCAA Runner-up
J.P. O’Connor: 2 x NCAA All-American
for Harvard University.
Dave Douglas: 2 x NCAA All-American
for ASU and 4 x Illinois State Champion
Anthony Robles: 2 x AZ State Champion
, NCAA All-American for ASU.
Mike Douglas: 2 x NJCAA All-American
for Lassen College and a PAC 10 Runnerup
for ASU
Pat Owen: Assistant Coach at
Harvard University, 2 x NCAA qualifier for
Univ. of Michigan
Brett Owen: MT State Runner-up and 3
x State Placer, NAIA All-American for Dickenson
State University
Sisto Rosales: NJCAA All-American for
Mesa Community College &
AZ State Champion
Curtis Owen: NCAA D-I All-American for
ASU and NJCAA National Champion for
North Idaho College
Monday, February 8, 2010
Chandler vs. Hamilton @ Hamilton February 3, 2010
Hamilton High school. Final Score Chandler 37-Hamilton 36.
Go to our Face Book page for pictures!
Jacob Vega won in overtime!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Payson Tournament
There is a 2 day tournament at Payson High on Friday - 1/22-Sat 1/23.
Other teams that are expected are:
Payson
Coolidge
Mountain Ridge
Chandler
Queen Creek
Fountain Hills
Mesquite
Campo Verde
Higley
Highland
Yuma
McClintock
Florence
Show Low
Mountain View
Williams Field
Some teams are not expected to show up due to the bad weather we are having. Stay near our face book page for updates. Chandler W Restling
Other teams that are expected are:
Payson
Coolidge
Mountain Ridge
Chandler
Queen Creek
Fountain Hills
Mesquite
Campo Verde
Higley
Highland
Yuma
McClintock
Florence
Show Low
Mountain View
Williams Field
Some teams are not expected to show up due to the bad weather we are having. Stay near our face book page for updates. Chandler W Restling
Article from the East Valley Tribune:
January 19, 2010 - 9:49PM
VX Insider: Sizing up EV's top wrestlers
By Steve Burks, Tribune
They are the cream of the crop, the best at what they do. They are the Tribune's Fab Four of high school wrestling. Chandler's Max Mejia, Desert Mountain's Shane McGough, Williams Field's Heath Boers and Corona del Sol's Derek Felton are all undefeated wrestlers, winning a combined 99 matches this season alone. While there are other quality wrestlers in the East Valley, these four have distinguished themselves as a cut above the rest.Vidal "Max" Mejia
Grade, school: Jr., Chandler
Current record, weight class: 15-0, 112
2010 accomplishments: Won titles at McClintock Invitational and Flowing Wells Invitational
Past success: 11-0 last year and 5A-I state champion at 103 pounds; 34-12 as a freshman, 6th in 5A-I. Placed 4th at the 2009 USA Wrestling Junior National Championships.
Five questions with Mejia
Describe your wrestling style? Very ugly. It's not nice on the body, almost like a grind. I don't have very many athletic gifts, so I just have to work hard. The only thing I kind of have going for me is a little bit of strength. Nothing flashy. Basic.
How many years have you been wrestling? My first tournament was when I was 6 years old. I really started going to practice every day around seventh grade.
What's the best bit of advice you've received? It's written on our T-Shirts and it says hard work pays off. That might be the best bit of advice.
What is your most memorable defeat? At the national tournament in July, I lost to a really tough kid, Val Rauser from Montana. He was a former national champ and I had him on his back. I should have won the match and I let it slip.
What other wrestler in Arizona (regardless of weight class) would you like to wrestle? I would say Ryak Finch (from Safford), he's the best kid in the country, I believe. You have to wrestle the best to be the best, so I'd like to see what I need to do.
Coach's comment: "For me, the biggest thing with him is he's consistent. You can't have the ups and the downs. For him, he's pretty much coming at whoever he's wrestling with the same game plan, he doesn't change. He is just consistent regardless of how he's feeling. I know how he's going to perform." - Vidal Mejia
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
3-Way Duel Tonight - Wednesday - January 20th @ 4:00p.m.
3-way Duel tonight @ Desert View High. Starts @ 4:00. Chandler vs. Desert View High and Kofa High. Get directions @ http://www.eteamz.com/chandlerhighwrestl
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Big Dual Tonight!
Tonight: Home Dual vs. Mesa High: @ 4:00 PM JV and Varsity @ 5:30. Come watch the #2 ranked (chandler) and #3 ranked (mesa) battle it out!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
CoachesAid.com: Competition-in-room-driving-Chandler-to-new-heights
Here is another Awesome article about our team. We have the best group of wrestlers and coaches!
Thanks again to coachesaid.com.
http://www.coachesaid.com/Article/2010/1/6/Competition-in-room-driving-Chandler-to-new-heights
Competition in room driving Chandler to new heights
By: Jason P. Skoda • 1/6/2010
One athlete can lift an entire room.
It’s true.
Not literally, of course, but ask anyone who has stepped on the mat on a daily basis with a wrestler who has the background, desire and ability to be an elite competitor and they change the environment in the practice room.
Just take a look at a state program.
Whenever there is a name – Finch, McGough, or Goettl for example - that everyone checks the brackets to see when they are scheduled to compete, check the surrounding weight classes at the end of the tournament, too.
Nearly every time there will be one or two wrestlers on the awards stand from that same team the stud is on merely because they face one of the best every single day in practice
That level of drilling and live wrestling sets the tone in the practice room, lifting the level of intensity and expectations, and it can filter through the entire team.
Something similar appears to be happening in Chandler where 112-pounder Max Mejia, a Class 5A Division I state champion, and freshman 103-pounder Dalton Brady are pushing the Wolves to a new level.
“It’s awesome,” Brady said. “That’s why I am doing so well. I thought I could possibly do it, but it was going to be kind of rough. Drilling with Max makes it easier to believe and then the last two weeks showed me I am right in there.”
Chandler coach Vidal Mejia, Max’s father, said their effort in the room can be contagious.
“They are a couple of brawlers,” he said. “They have butted heads for years. They are year-round wrestlers that know how to work to get where they want to go and it is has caught on to some of other kids.”
Chandler, ranked No. 3 by CoachesAid.com, is one of the surprise teams of the early portion of wrestling season as the Wolves continue to finish high at tournaments, winning the McClintock tournament and finishing third at the Dave Work Memorial in Cottonwood.
“I hope we are still not surprising, but that doesn’t matter,” the elder Mejia said after the Mingus tournament. “We haven’t had much a recent history of being successful. We’ve shown glimpses. Right now, what we are doing is we are more consistent.
“This group of seniors we have now, we were excited about as freshman. What we lacked was mat time. Most of the kids we get have one year of junior high experience. When Max came in, and now Brady, they had four, five years experience so we didn’t have to spend as much time teaching the basics.”
The Wolves had five finalists, two champions, and two third-place finishers at Mingus without the younger Mejia missing the tournament with a neck injury. He was scheduled to see a specialist on Tuesday and the elder Mejia said he believed everything would be OK to have his son cleared.
In addition to Brady, who beat former state champion Chris Bostic in the finals, Alexander Buelna won the 152-pound title by beating Tut Khabuliani of Mesa 4-3.
Jacob Vega (135), Francisco Guiterrez (215) and William Poehls (HVY) were runners-up.
In the dual portion of the tournament Chandler went 4-1, losing 38-30 to champion Mingus, the top-ranked team in 4A II. Maybe Mejia’s presence in the lineup changes the team score although Mingus was without its 103-pounder Dalton Moran.
Frank Miranda (171) and Jacob Vega (189) took third place. In other words, there are few weak spots in the lineup.
The Wolves development will add another horse in the Flowing Wells Invitational field in what figures to be the most wide open team race the event has seen in a long time.
“We’ve made strides, but that is the toughest tournament in the state,” Mejia said. “We will see just how far we have come.”
Jason P. Skoda can be reached at jasonskoda@coachesaid.com with comments, story ideas and inquiries into his shirt size for any SWAG items that might be sent his way
Thanks again to coachesaid.com.
http://www.coachesaid.com/Article/2010/1/6/Competition-in-room-driving-Chandler-to-new-heights
Competition in room driving Chandler to new heights
By: Jason P. Skoda • 1/6/2010
One athlete can lift an entire room.
It’s true.
Not literally, of course, but ask anyone who has stepped on the mat on a daily basis with a wrestler who has the background, desire and ability to be an elite competitor and they change the environment in the practice room.
Just take a look at a state program.
Whenever there is a name – Finch, McGough, or Goettl for example - that everyone checks the brackets to see when they are scheduled to compete, check the surrounding weight classes at the end of the tournament, too.
Nearly every time there will be one or two wrestlers on the awards stand from that same team the stud is on merely because they face one of the best every single day in practice
That level of drilling and live wrestling sets the tone in the practice room, lifting the level of intensity and expectations, and it can filter through the entire team.
Something similar appears to be happening in Chandler where 112-pounder Max Mejia, a Class 5A Division I state champion, and freshman 103-pounder Dalton Brady are pushing the Wolves to a new level.
“It’s awesome,” Brady said. “That’s why I am doing so well. I thought I could possibly do it, but it was going to be kind of rough. Drilling with Max makes it easier to believe and then the last two weeks showed me I am right in there.”
Chandler coach Vidal Mejia, Max’s father, said their effort in the room can be contagious.
“They are a couple of brawlers,” he said. “They have butted heads for years. They are year-round wrestlers that know how to work to get where they want to go and it is has caught on to some of other kids.”
Chandler, ranked No. 3 by CoachesAid.com, is one of the surprise teams of the early portion of wrestling season as the Wolves continue to finish high at tournaments, winning the McClintock tournament and finishing third at the Dave Work Memorial in Cottonwood.
“I hope we are still not surprising, but that doesn’t matter,” the elder Mejia said after the Mingus tournament. “We haven’t had much a recent history of being successful. We’ve shown glimpses. Right now, what we are doing is we are more consistent.
“This group of seniors we have now, we were excited about as freshman. What we lacked was mat time. Most of the kids we get have one year of junior high experience. When Max came in, and now Brady, they had four, five years experience so we didn’t have to spend as much time teaching the basics.”
The Wolves had five finalists, two champions, and two third-place finishers at Mingus without the younger Mejia missing the tournament with a neck injury. He was scheduled to see a specialist on Tuesday and the elder Mejia said he believed everything would be OK to have his son cleared.
In addition to Brady, who beat former state champion Chris Bostic in the finals, Alexander Buelna won the 152-pound title by beating Tut Khabuliani of Mesa 4-3.
Jacob Vega (135), Francisco Guiterrez (215) and William Poehls (HVY) were runners-up.
In the dual portion of the tournament Chandler went 4-1, losing 38-30 to champion Mingus, the top-ranked team in 4A II. Maybe Mejia’s presence in the lineup changes the team score although Mingus was without its 103-pounder Dalton Moran.
Frank Miranda (171) and Jacob Vega (189) took third place. In other words, there are few weak spots in the lineup.
The Wolves development will add another horse in the Flowing Wells Invitational field in what figures to be the most wide open team race the event has seen in a long time.
“We’ve made strides, but that is the toughest tournament in the state,” Mejia said. “We will see just how far we have come.”
Jason P. Skoda can be reached at jasonskoda@coachesaid.com with comments, story ideas and inquiries into his shirt size for any SWAG items that might be sent his way
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