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Senior Darla Wernimont faces up against a Hastings
player in the first game for the Mustangs at the State
tournament.
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varsity girls basketball

Clashing with the Best

he girl's varsity basketball team squads, they came to 59-31 and 43-37
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finished their best season ever with a victories and clinched their district
19-5 record. They made it to the championship. They also claimed a
semi-finals in the state tournament after fourth-seed in the State Tournament.
claiming their district championship. Matched with the fifth-seed Tigers of
Their seventh place ranking from the Hastings in the quarter-finals, the Mus-
Omaha World-Herald was a disappoint- tangs took control from the beginning
ment to the whole school. "If a team is jump ball. The defense was a large part
good enough to be one of the final four of the game, holding Hastings' key
teams in the state tournament, it should be player, Angie Life, to only seven points.
given due respect and ranking," wrote They finished the Tigers' season with a
back Coach Jeff Ritz in the paper's "Voices 56-34 win, closing their record at 16-5.
from the Grandstand" section. In semi-final action, North faced the
At the beginning of the season, the Marian Crusaders, the top ranked team
Mustangs faced two losses from the top who had suffered only one loss from
two ranked teams, Omaha Marian and Central. This virtually unbeatable team
Central, but they fought back at the Metro came up against a tough battle for
Beating out a Roncalli player, Senior Darla Holiday Tournament and gave the Eagles of control in the first quarter, but did not
Wernimont goes for a lay up. Central a run for their money as they took get it until late in the second quarter after
the lead in the third quarter of the the Mustangs had taken a short lead of
semi-final game. Later, the Eagles took 12-10. In the last half, they could not stop
control and gained a 49-42 win. the Crusaders from their inside domina-
Later in the season, the team had tion and came to a 49-28 loss .
built-up their record to 15-3 and was At the end of the season, Coach Ritz
ranked third in Class "A", but they faced commented on the team as a whole, " We
a disappointing loss from a psyched up were deeper and were better at checking
Millard South team. on the boards. We also had better
144 At the District Tournament, Bellevue shooting from the outside and played
East and Omaha Burke were the Mustang's better team defense."
opponents. Dominating over these two