POCATELLO - If you were looking for live culture Saturday night, your best bet was to have a yogurt. But if you were looking for down-and-dirty, diva-dunkin' lassie wrasslin', then Sandbagger's Bar and Grill was the place to be for the Diva Mud Wrestling charity event.

While the inaugural event - it would be hyperbole to call it a competition - might not have fit the conventional mold for raising money for this year's Relay for Life, it was certainly a marketing success.

The capacity crowd was in good cheer as a host of ladies dressed primarily in shorts and halter tops entered the oozing mud pit to go one-on-one to see who was the better grappler.

Most participants quickly discovered that once you're covered with head-to-toe muddy goop, the drive to best your opponent with Greco-Roman flair is pretty much shot.

With good-hearted shoves, slippery grabs and occasional stumbles, the giggling mud warriors soldiered through their three rounds. In between bouts, the emcee called out raffle numbers and tried to auction off the right to throw staff members in the mud pit.

The event was the brainchild of the Red Hot Lucys, a local Relay for Life team.

"This is the funnest fundraiser we've ever thrown," said Lucys member Debbie Green.

Green was wearing a shirt which memorialized two Lucys team members from last year, Mikki Allen and Sandy Poole. Allen and Poole both participated in last year's relay. Allen succumbed to her cancer in September; Poole lost her battle in November.

"It broke my heart," Green said of the passing of the two. "Every day I cry about it."

Sandbagger's was an apt choice for hosting the event. Bar owner Judy Barton is a cancer survivor.

Green said the Lucys held a dinner at Sandbagger's a month ago which raised approximately $1,000. Saturday's event should do even better, she said.

"This year we really got our act together," Green said.

She said that Lucys member Jamie Mendive, was the driving force of the event, obtaining approximately several thousand dollars' worth of prizes from local merchants.

In the true spirit of such an event, a local motorcycle club served as security, although the need for muscle was not evident.

Two of the 15-member Red Hot Lucys team, Janice Stitt and Berta Hadley, wrestled in the event. Green said the number of members is unofficial, as the rules for Relay for Life call for a 12-member maximum.

"We tend to break the rules sometimes," Green said with a sly smile.