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G boys strutting played really well. Considering how
iris exposed to "locker room with the game and thought the girls
talk" and
through hallways in short confused and questionable they
skirts?! Strange? No, just typical were at practices.
Powder Puff Football behavior. But with all of the fun also came
For seniors, their 14-6 defeat the injuries. Senior Jenny Gunter
over the juniors was their second win severely messed up her knee right
in a row. " I don't know if the fact that before the game . " She was one of
we are seniors helped any in winning. our best players. We had to rear-
The juniors had a lot of spirit too," range the whole offense," said King .
said senior player Jean Mossberg. However, the injuries never clouded
Junior Marti Lehmann was not the excitement made possible by this
completely satisfied with her team 's DECA sponsored activity.
performance. "We were all too ----------------
serious, " commented Lehmann .
Injuries played an important role in this game, just
When asked why they wanted to like any other. Here Senior Jenny Gunter has ice
play, Lehrnann said that she " always applied to her injured knee to help it heal.
wanted to play Powder Puff Football
because everyone told me how much
fun it was ." Mossberg added " I
played last year and it was a lot of
fun ."
Coach Jeff Moriarty tried to
teach his juniors to play to win, but
" they had the idea in their heads to
play for fun . When the game started,
though, they Cjuniors) wanted to
win," he said. Mossberg said that " it
didn't matter if we won, we wanted
to, but it was more for fun ."
Whatever the motive of the
teams, they still had to learn how to
play the game correctly. Senior
Coach Steve King said that " we
treated them as guys, strict, but let
them have fun ." Junior Andria Hahn
observed that the coaches " tried to
train us like guys, but realized we
were girls."
Both coaches were impressed

Training was required for all the girls. The junior These boys showed the Mustang cheerleaders
team stretches out on the field before the game . that they aren 't the only ones with spirit. Juniors
Mark Christopherson and Rob Whorley cheer on
their team .

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