MHS Baseball Wins Spirit of Sport

Representatives for the Malad Dragons Baseball team accepting their team award: Spirit of Sport 2022. Pictured are (left to right) Coach Garen Atkinson, Bridger Bastian, Stetson Higley, Chase Briggs, Peyton Briggs, Coach Ty Price, Coach Bo Clark, and Coach Billy Peabody. The 2020-2021 MHS baseball team worked hard to help a family of an opponent in Soda Springs. Team members that year included: (Front left to right): Coach Ty Price, Sawyer Poulson, Jaden Ward, Chase Briggs, Stetson Higley, Timmy Jensen, (back) Coach Josh Jensen, Coach Billy Peabody, Traven Ward, John Evans, Vincent Evans, Bridger Bastian, Kyler Horsley, Tanner Olsen, Grady Combs, Peyton Briggs, Gaiden Combs, Dylan Evans, Coach Garen Atkinson, and Coach Bo Clark. Not Pictured are Ryan Hubbard, Braylen Tripp, Porter Ward, Ben Peterson, and Austyn Higley.

Malad High School Baseball team received the Spirit of Sport Award

Each year the Idaho High School Sports Association (IHSAA) presents the Spirit of Sport award to just one school in the state of Idaho. This award is presented to a team that shows character, respect, and integrity. With just one school in the entire state of Idaho getting this award, it is a significant honor. The Malad HIgh School Baseball Team of 2021 was presented with this honor this month.

April 2021, the Dragons went to work participating in a fundraiser to help a Soda Springs’ player whose Mom was injured in a Jeep accident. The Dragons came up with a way to raise money for this young man's family by hosting a bake sale, a raffle, and doing acts of service around the community. The acts of service were free but if those receiving the service wanted to make a donation it was greatly appreciated. Nikki Combs, mom of two players on the team, helped to organize the bake sale. At the bake sale, they also sold raffle tickets for a quilt and a rifle that were both donated to the team for the raffle.

Coach Bo Clark expressed how proud he was of his boys and how they went out of their way to help someone else. He mentioned that he heard no complaints from the boys and they were even willing to all take a day off of practice to do service to help out. Since the accident Coach Clark has talked to the Soda Springs Coach to see how the family is doing. The Soda Springs player has since headed off to college and his mother is back home adapting to her new life.

The team raised about $3,700 for the family and presented the money to them at the first game of the 5th District 2A District tournament in May 2021. The family expressed their gratitude for what the boys had done for them that night and the boys were excited to be a part of such a great event.

On August 3, 2022, Coach Bo Clark took the players who were available to accept the award on behalf of their team to Boise to receive this honor. Due to other commitments, only a few of the players were able to attend the banquet to honor the Dragons and their hard work.

Traveling Tabernacle visits Tremonton; Malad Stake helps out

The traveling tabernacle experience has been in Tremonton since last week. During the first day of its operation, youth and other volunteers from Malad were on hand to help greet and educate visitors to the symbolic significance of the elements of the full-scale replica. A multi-stake devotional was held after the Malad day, featuring local 70 Mike Hess and BYU Professor Donald Parry.

According to materials provided throughout the tabernacle tour, the tabernacle was originally constructed as a mobile place of worship during the migrations of the camp of Moses during the exile. The tabernacle itself was allegedly placed in the middle of the camp, surrounded by the twelve tribes with the temple at their center. The tabernacle is composed of an enclosed courtyard, which is surrounded by white barriers. Donald Parry, Professor of Hebrew Bible, explained that the whiteness of the barrier is designed to separate the area from the material world. That is, it creates a wall of symbolic purity into which users of the tabernacle would pass.

The entrance itself is covered by a colored entry cloth, and leads into the inner courtyard, where the altar of sacrifice is located. Before entering the Holy place, the “laver of water” is positioned to allow visitors to cleanse themselves. The Holy place contains the Table of Shrewbread, the Menorah, and the Altar of Incense.

The heart of the tabernacle is the Holy of Holies, which contains the Ark of the Covenant.

The Malad stake was chosen for the first day of the Tremonton tour, as its youth had scheduled Trek for the same week. Many familiar faces were on hand to guide visitors through the various places in the full-scale replica tabernacle, and they managed to stay smiling despite the unusual downpour.

Following the tour, Dr. Douglas Parry spoke to the devotional crowd about the history and significance of the tabernacle to the history and beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mike Hess also addressed the audience, discussing how listeners were called upon to strengthen the stakes of Israel.

The touring tabernacle will be visiting a number of other locations in Utah until early November.

To see more pictures of the Malad stake at the tabernacle, visit the Enterprise website gallery at Idahoenterprise. com.

Malad youth explain the Camp of Isael to rain-soaked visitors