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Senior Jeff Abboud tries to escape from the hold of Through a struggling season, spirit was hard to kee~
a Papillion player. Although the team later lost 14-30. but Senior Kevin Williams maintains a positive attitude
Abboud made nine touchdowns thoughout the sea- (A. Davis)
son. (S. Sartin)

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the next three games.
With the return of Senior Quorfer- Although the team continued to strug
back Jim Everton and being ranked sixth at gle throughout October. they were ranke1
the opening of the season. the varsity foot- ninth in the Oct. 22 Omaha World-Herah
ball team was optimistic. poll.
The season started off on a good note The Homecoming game was playe·
with a win against Burke . Everton made a against Omaha Gross. where the tear
94-yard touchdown and then the team won with a score of 42-28. From there the
went on to win 23-14. went on to play Millard South. At halftim
In the Sept. 7 Omaha World-Herald the score was locked 14-14. It went into a
poll. they were ranked Number Four in the overtime and Millard South came out wit
rankings. which was their highest ranking all a narrow win of 22-21 .
year. However. the offense just couldn't Against Thomas Jefferson. the tear
make things work. In a game against won 55-6. That game gave many back-u
Omaha Central. Everton went out with a players a chance to play. Then the tear
knee injury and Central scored 14 points. traveleu to Papillion. where the game enc
The Mustangs lost 14-0. ed in a 30-14 loss.
In the next game. they lost to Omaha The next two games ended in losses t
Westside 19-0. This marked the eighth con- Bellevue East and Omaha Bryan. and corr
secutive quarter that the team had not pleted their season record at 3-6.
scored. At this point Coach Fred Petito said, Although the season was disappoin
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"We are just not used to playing badly. We ing. Petito said, "We will be back!" J
have to learn to play under a little adver- -Melinda Absher and Jon Blumenthal-

During the first half of the game against Central, Se-
nior Mike Melander returns a punt. For the year, Melan-
der had 11 returns. (S. Sartin)

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