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Chill Stops Mustangs
Senior Dave Gunter uses hi s agility to catch terback, Jim Everton, when he pulled some lig- Shawn Stokes
a pas s and to escape from an outstretched defender in
the game against Omaha South.
R The Mus- offensively." Coach Fred Petito said
eaching the State semi-finals was the aments in his knee.
farthest any Millard North football team about the junior quarterback, "He makes us go
has ever gone in a season.
But the Mustangs regrouped and easily
tangs also achieved the best record (8-3) in
school history and peaked at third in the beat Abraham Lincoln 35-7 . Winning this
Omaha World Herald poll. The defenst also game clinched the District championship for
claimed the top spot in the state. the second year in a row and qualified them
We've come a long, long way this season for the state playoffs.
with very high expectations, and we have In the first round -of the playoffs, the
played very well together as a team," said Se- squad faced North Platte and came to a 23-14
nior Derrick Brown. victory under good football conditions.
Part of that teamwork, said Senior Doug These conditions soon changed for the
Deines was from "working hard during the worse when arctic conditions hit Nebraska.
summer in the weightroom." He also claim- The semi-final game was delayed one day be-
ed the "team unity and respect" were strong fore the players hit the field in Fremont. Porta-
points on the team. ble heaters were brought in to thaw frozen
This unity gave Mustangs an opening 13- feet and hands. But these efforts to stay
0 victory against Westside. The team then warm were not effective. The Fremont Ti-
went undefeated until they faced a 12-18 over- gers froze the Mustangs to a 0-6 loss.
time loss to Fremont. However, the Mus- "Fremont knew we were very limited of-
tangs jumped back and won three in a row, in- fensively and they came at us and shut us
cluding two shut-outs to Millard South and down," said Petito.
Omaha South. The team then lost to a tough Petito later went on to say about the sea-
Omaha Central team. son, "We had a great year and we are proud
However, during that game, the team not of our accomplishments." tN
only lost the game, but lost their starting quar-
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