WRAY, Colo. – Chadron State pitched a pair of shutouts in its season-opening duals on Saturday, cruising to a 54-0 win over Otero Junior College and a 40-0 win over Fort Hays State at a triangular held at Wray High School. 

Across the two duals, Chadron State won all 20 matches with six falls, five tech falls, three major decisions and three decisions. The Eagles improved their 2025-26 dual record to 2-0 and earned their first nonconference dual wins since 2023-24 after choosing not to schedule any last season. 

Chadron State used the same wrestlers in eight of 10 weight classes for both duals. Quade Smith (125 pounds), Hunter Jacobsen (133), Brandon Paredes (157), Tayten Gillette (165), Logan Berger (174), Brooks Loosvelt (184), Mason Villwok (197) and Eli Reese (285) all went 2-0 on the day. 

The Eagles split their squad at 141 and 149. At 141 pounds, Cyrus Wells earned an 18-10 major decision against Otero while Gannon transfer Caleb Chaves won an 11-2 major decision against Fort Hays State. At 149, Western Wyoming College transfer Wyatt McDermott earned a pin in the Otero dual before Caleb Nadig wrestled against FHSU and won via major decision. 

Chadron State was all over Otero from the start, with reigning RMAC Wrestler of the Week Quade Smith pinning his opponent in just 1:51 and Jacobsen adding another six points with an even quicker fall in 1:37. After Wells's major decision win, the Eagles recorded pins in three of their next four bouts and won the only match that wasn't a pin by a score of 16-0. Two more 15-0 techs followed by Villwok and Reese at the upper weights. 

While the Fort Hays State dual didn't have quite as many bonus points, the Eagles were still decisive and swept all 10 matches. Smith, Berger and Gillette all earned major decision wins while Jacobsen had a tech fall, giving the quartet two bonus point wins each on the day. 

Villwok had CSC's closest call of the day battling with FHSU's Ryan Patterson at 197. Trailing 1-0 after two periods, Villwok selected bottom, escaped, and then earned a tiebreaking takedown to win 4-1. Eli Reese, who came to Chadron State from Gannon alongside Chaves, punctuated the day with a pin at heavyweight, the only pin against Fort Hays for CSC. 

Next up for the Eagles is the UNK Open on Saturday, November 22, one of the largest college wrestling tournaments in the country.