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Dodge City Lady Demon Wrestling Dominates Pratt Greenbacks in Season Opener

November 30, 2023 By DCHS Sports

Dodge City, November 30, 2023

The Dodge City Lady Demon Wrestling team kicked off their season with an impressive performance, securing a decisive victory against the Pratt Greenbacks at the Dodge City High School Fieldhouse.

In the 100-pound weight class, Elizabeth Ramirez demonstrated her prowess securing a victory over Lexi Blasi from Pratt High School with a fall at 3 minutes and 53 seconds. Ramirez’s pin for the Lady Demons set the tone for the rest of the match.

The momentum continued with stellar performances from other Lady Demon wrestlers:

In the 110-pound weight class, Ashley Alonso overpowered Rachel Rawlings from Pratt with a fall at 2 minutes and 24 seconds, contributing another six points to the team’s total.
Yessenia Castro in the 115-pound weight class came away with a (10-5) decision over Morgan Prieto from Pratt, earning three team points.

The Lady Demons faced tough competition in some weight classes, with Pratt securing wins in the 120-pound and 125-pound categories. However, Dodge City’s resilience shone through as they claimed victories in the majority of the matches. The team’s dominance extended to various weight classes, including notable wins by Ariana De La Rosa, Dayanara Garcia, Yareli Garcia, Yoselyn Rubio, Maribel Castro, and Naomi Orozco.

As the final match ended, the Dodge City Lady Demon Wrestling team emerged victorious with a team score of 57 against Pratt’s 15. The resounding cheers from the home crowd echoed through the Fieldhouse, celebrating the team’s triumph and setting the stage for a promising season ahead.

Coach Tate Lowe expressed pride in the team’s performance, stating, “Our wrestlers came out strong tonight. We look forward to building on this success throughout the season.”

KSHSAA D1 Girls Regional Wrestling Tourney

February 11, 2021 By DCHS Sports

Dodge City High School will host the 2021 KSHSAA D1 Girls Regional Wrestling Tourney on Saturday, February 13. The event will be held at the Dodge City Civic Center.

Event Schedule

PARTICIPATING TEAMS

Dodge City	Hutchinson
Garden City	Liberal
Goddard	Newton
Goddard Eisenhower	Valley Center
Great Bend	Wichita Northwest
Hays	Wichita West

Watch LIVE on DemonVision

ENTRANCE: Please enter through the Civic Center Door, there will not be any access through USD 443 Administration Building. (See Map Below)

SEEDING MEETING: Saturday, February 13 at 9:00 a.m. at Civic Center Conference Room. Coaches please review the seeding criteria in the KSHSAA Wrestling Manual prior to entering your wrestlers into Track Wrestling (page 25, 3.E.3 seeding criteria).

WEIGH-INS: Shoulder-to-Shoulder at 10:00am on Saturday, February 13th will take place mat side.

OFFICIALS: Assigned by the KSHSAA

LOCKER ROOMS: Locker rooms will be assigned but not be secured, make sure all valuables are independently secured. Dodge City High School is not responsible for any lost or stolen items.

ENTRIES: Please complete KSHSAA Form WR-RG with roster and pass gate information. Send no later than the morning of Thursday, February 11, 2021.

TRACKWRESTLING: Coaches/Team Statistician will receive emails from TrackWrestling to add line- ups and seeding criteria.

ADMISSION PRICES: $7.00 per ticket. Tickets will be sold in the lobby of the Civic Center, along with pass gate.

COVID PRECAUTIONS: We ask that teams and spectators sit in assigned sections, masks are required of all participants and fans. Wrestlers may wrestle without masks but are required to wear them at all other times. We will be limited admission to four spectators per participant. Both mats will be streamed and the stream will be able to be viewed at:https://dchssports.com/demonvision/

NATIONAL ANTHEM: The Anthem will be performed at the start of wrestling on Friday.

AWARDS: Regional Champions will receive a team plaques and Top 4 individual medals per weight division.

MEDIA: Please have all school media contact Dodge City Athletics to make any necessary arrangements.

PARKING: Activity buses will need to park on the north lot outside of the USD 443 Admin building. Spectators may park in open spots on the south side of the Civic Center and along the west side in open spots.

CONCESSIONS: A concession stand will be open during the tournament in the Lobby of the Civic Center.

HOSPITALITY: Will be located in the South Conference room of the Civic Center. It will be available for coaches, officials, drivers and administrators.

TRAINER: Michael Pelton, LAT, ATC, EMT-I

EMERGENCY CONTANCT: In case of inclement weather or unforeseen emergencies, please contact Shawn Steiner.

DODGE CITY VISITOR INFO: Dodge City Convention & Visitors Bureau

SCHEDULE OF DAILY EVENTS

All times are approximate and may run ahead or behind schedule

9:00 am	Seeding Meeting
10:00 am	Weigh-ins mat side shoulder-to-shoulder
12:00 pm	Championship First Round (2 mats)
12:45 pm	Championship Quarterfinals (2 mats)
1:30 pm	First Round Consolation (2 mats)
30 minute break
2:45 pm	First Round of Consolation (1 mat) Championship Semifinals (1 mat)
3:30 pm	Consolation Cross Bracketing (2 mats)
5:15 pm	Consolation Finals (3rd-6th) (2 mats)
6:00 pm	Finals (2 mats)

KSHSAA D1 Boys Regional Wrestling Tourney

February 11, 2021 By DCHS Sports

Dodge City High School will host the 2021 KSHSAA D1 Boys Regional Wrestling Tourney on Friday, February 12. The event will be held at the Dodge City Civic Center.

Event Schedule

PARTICIPATING TEAMS

Dodge City	Hutchinson	Wichita Northwest
Garden City	Liberal	Wichita South
Haysville – Campus	Wichita North	Wichita West

Watch LIVE on DemonVision

ENTRANCE: Please enter through the Civic Center Door, there will not be any access through USD 443 Administration Building. (See Map Below)

SEEDING MEETING: Friday, February 12 at 11:00 a.m. at Civic Center Conference Room. Coaches please review the seeding criteria in the KSHSAA Wrestling Manual prior to entering your wrestlers into Track Wrestling (page 25, 3.E.3 seeding criteria).

WEIGH-INS: Shoulder-to-Shoulder at 1:00pm on Friday, February 12th will take place mat side.

OFFICIALS: Assigned by the KSHSAA

LOCKER ROOMS: Locker rooms will be assigned but not be secured, make sure all valuables are independently secured. Dodge City High School is not responsible for any lost or stolen items.

ENTRIES: Please complete KSHSAA Form WR-RG with roster and pass gate information. Send no later than the morning of Wednesday, February 10, 2021.

TRACKWRESTLING: Coaches/Team Statistician will receive emails from TrackWrestling to add line- ups and seeding criteria.

ADMISSION PRICES: $7.00 per ticket. Tickets will be sold in the lobby of the Civic Center, along with pass gate.

NATIONAL ANTHEM: The Anthem will be performed at the start of wrestling on Friday.

AWARDS: Regional Champions will receive a team plaques and Top 4 individual medals per weight division.

MEDIA: Please have all school media contact Dodge City Athletics to make any necessary arrangements.

CONCESSIONS: A concession stand will be open during the tournament in the Lobby of the Civic Center.

HOSPITALITY: Will be located in the South Conference room of the Civic Center. It will be available for coaches, officials, drivers and administrators.

TRAINER: Michael Pelton, LAT, ATC, EMT-I

EMERGENCY CONTANCT: In case of inclement weather or unforeseen emergencies, please contact Shawn Steiner.

DODGE CITY VISITOR INFO: Dodge City Convention & Visitors Bureau

SCHEDULE OF DAILY EVENTS

All times are approximate and may run ahead or behind schedule

11:00 am	Seeding Meeting
1:00 pm	Weigh-ins mat side shoulder-to-shoulder
3:00 pm	Championship First Round (2 mats)
3:45 pm	Championship Quarterfinals (2 mats)
4:30 pm	First Round Consolation (2 mats)
30 minute break
5:45 pm	First Round of Consolation (1 mat) Championship Semifinals (1 mat)
6:30 pm	Consolation Cross Bracketing (2 mats)
7:15 pm	Consolation Finals (3rd-6th) (2 mats)
8:00 pm	Finals (2 mats)

Demons Dominate DC Invitational

January 13, 2021 By DCHS Sports

By Anahi Alonso

Photos by Victor Guadarrama

The Red Demon Wrestling team competed at the DC Invitational Saturday, Jan. 9.

The Demons went against the Junction City Tigers and won with a score of 45-27, taking them onto the next match versus the Pratt Greenbacks and winning with a score of 57-15. Dodge City beat the Manhattan Indians 55-15 and with a knock-off against the No.1 All Class Goddard Eagles with a score of 45-35.

Damian Mendez, junior, reaches his one hundredth career win by beating another state champ.

The Lady Demons take the first place title. Winning first place overall with 169 points, the Demons move onto their next match against the Hays Indians Jan. 12, at 6 pm at Hays High School.

Darville combines football, wrestling in pursuit of big dreams

March 29, 2018 By DCHS Sports

By Shelton Burch

Sports Editor

Dodge City High School junior Evan Darville is a dominant athlete. It’s pretty much as simple as that.

At over 6 feet tall, and over 280 pounds, Darville is a mix of speed, strength and agility.

He can pin opponents in the high school 285 weight division in under two minutes, as he did multiple times during the 6A state wrestling tournament this year.

Or, on the football field, he can work in tandem with other talented athletes to be the foundation of a football defense, like he did with fellow-junior Marcos Fisher this year.

“We changed our scheme of our defense for those two to be able to beat and destroy any blocker that lines up across from ‘em,” Red Demons head football coach Dave Foster said. “We didn’t give those guys one-gap responsibilities like most teams would, we gave ‘em two-gap responsibility because that’s the kind of responsibility that we place on higher-level players.”

Most players, he said, are not asked to do that.

“It’s been eight years at Dodge City High School and the kid’s name was Jesse Trent,” Foster said. “Jesse Trent was a state champion wrestler as well. That’s the last time we took a D-lineman and said ‘You own these two gaps, and that’s just how we’re gonna do this. You’ve worked that hard and that guy across from you hasn’t week-in and week-out, so you’re go destroy two people.”

Trent won the 2011 state wrestling title in the 285 division, the same class Darville wrestled in this year.

Before that though, in 2010, he lost in the final match, finishing second in the 285 division, the same place Darville finished this season after losing in double- overtime in the final match of his division’s tournament.

Darville’s athleticism is nothing new. Red Demons head wrestling coach Lars Lueders said he first reached out to Darville in seventh grade.

At the time, Lueders was looking for a big man with some strength to add to his roster, and he heard from football coaches about how athletic and fast Darville was for his size.

“Seventh grade was when during football season I pulled him out of class and I gave him a packet that explained how wrestling helps football, and then gave him kind of quotes from a lot of pro players that were wrestlers and explained how wrestling helps them in football,” Lueders said.

Darville went out for the wrestling team that season, and quickly showed his potential on the mat.

“During his first season, I think he only lost one time, and he ended up beating that kid that he lost to at the league championship,” Lueders said. “For a first year wrestler to go out and dominate and to be as successful as he was, was very impressive. He had the right mentality for the sport, he’s competitive, he liked winning, which is very important. He’s just extremely athletic for how big he was.”

For Darville, football came first.

He said he tried out for wrestling because of how the skills it teaches an athlete translate to football, and because of how many great things he heard and read about it, specifically from NFL linemen.

Despite his abilities, Darville has also had challenges he has had to overcome.

His favorite part of football is having to completely overpower opponents, beating them in every way. The same is true for wrestling.

“I think that also with wrestling, when you beat an opponent, it just feels good to know that all that is just work you’ve done, not just something that happens there,” Darville said. “You’ve done work to prepare for it so it feels real good to beat somebody.”

But being aggressive hasn’t always been something that has come easily to Darville.

During recreational football league in middle school he would have to restrain himself a little.

“I was just always so much bigger than them, I would have to tone it down a little bit,” Darville said. “So I always felt bad for them.”

Last year, Darville competed at the state wrestling tournament, but failed to place.

One thing that has changed between last year and this one is how aggressive he has learned to be.

“That was a big struggle all the way through his wrestling career is to get him to be more aggressive,” Lueders said. “That was the main difference this season, is that he finally I think got over that and understood that it’s OK to be aggressive, it’s OK to use your full strength, and I think that really paid off for him and that was a big reason for his jump in performance.”

Darville said he started to get a little better at being aggressive during freshman year, and taking wrestling more seriously that season helped.

The effect of wrestling practice on football didn’t happen in any one moment for him though.

“Wrestling practice, it’s always a grind and you’ve gotta push through it and you’ve gotta always be aggressive,” Darville said. “Even if your technique starts falling apart, if you’re aggressive you can still hang in there which I think really helped me with football because even if I wasn’t the best guy out there, if I was the most aggressive I was sure gonna play really well.”

He has also become more confident on the football field.

“I think as a freshman I’d go half-speed, fearing that I would mess up or something and get the coaches mad or something,” Darville said.

Going all-out in the weight room has also helped him develop the strength he needs to control his two gaps, he said.

Another challenge he has had to overcome has been learning to love wrestling itself. He wrestled because of how much it translated over to football, but took eighth grade year off from it before returning as a freshman.

“It took me a while to really fall in love, I guess you’d say, with the sport,” Darville said. “It probably started I think last summer during wrestling camp. I saw all the work that I put in it translate over into me getting better and I think that’s really when I started to like wrestling just for wrestling, not necessarily just as a football (beneficial) sport or anything like that.”

His work ethic though is something lauded by both Lueders and Foster.

Foster said the first three words that come to mind when he thinks about Darville are “explosive,” “coachable” and “big man.” His favorite thing about Darville though, is his consistency.

“He’s just consistent with the respect and attitude that he brings,” Foster said. “In the summer when nobody else wants to show up, he’s here. Marcos Fisher’s the same type of kid: Kids that work even when they don’t want to work, they’re just consistent people and that’s really what you want out of everybody involved with the program: Consistency.”

That consistency allowed him to achieve some impressive statistics in his junior football season.

He played in all nine games for the Red Demons football team in the 201718 season, leading the team with 69 tackles, tied for first on the team assists with 43, tied for second in solo tackles with 26, and alone in second on the team in tackles for loss, having recorded seven.

His success on the football field and on the wrestling mat has earned him All-WAC First Team selections in both the fall and winter sports seasons. With the Red Demons varsity track and field season kicking off tonight, Darville is competing again.

If he can earn First-Team All-WAC in track and field, he’ll be the first Red Demon to be First-Team All-WAC three times in an academic year since Dayton McGroarty did it in the 2015-16 school year in football, basketball and baseball.

He isn’t thinking too much about that though, he said, and is just focusing on learning the best technique he can at his track and field events.

“I know I have the strength for it,” Darville said. “I just need my technique.”

Going into next football season, though, Darville said he wants to see the Red Demons give themselves a shot and win the first playoff game.

“I think with the team we have, we can really do some things in the postseason and maybe even shock some people,” Darville said.

Individually, Darville has goals as well.

“My goal for football I would say (would be to be) first-team All State and then I would want to receive a DI scholarship offer or something of that sort,” Darville said. “And I think for wrestling, I really want to be a state champion.”