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Despite a snag of three con- Senior Chad Bauerly said. " We That was our strength. We tried
secutive losses, the varsity had greater expectations than as hard as we could. and we
football team finished a suc- we achieved, but at the end of never gave up."
cessful season with a 4-5 rec- the season we were generally The most victorious moment
ord . proving its strength among pleased with our perform- of the season for many players
the Metro teams. ance." was the Mustang 's dominance
According to Senior Rich Much of that success was over seventh ranked Gross .
Sheppard. the first losses were " Winning against Gross made
attributed to " taking the the season memorable." said
games too lightly." He said, " If "Our team was die hard Senior Chris Leuchen In the Mustang's last
we had a better attitude, we " When one comes so close, game against Omaha South, Senior
could have worked up to our and aggressive. That was it's nice to win against a team Steve Grove is tackled as he makes a
full potential. " our strength. We tried as like Gross . We had a great def touchdown. The game ended the sea-
Sheppard added that the hard as we could, and ensive effort," said Coach Fred son with one last victory. (H. Kingham)
losses did have some benefit. we never gave up." Petito The final seconds of a
"The losses fired us up. and we -Senior C. Bauerly Overall. though the season game were filled with tension and
knew we were ready to win. " did not go as it was expected, sometimes disappointment. Anticipat-
Sophomore Ryan Peters it was very much a success . ing the end of the Millard South game
added, " We took the begin- accredited to teamwork. " We " This year was a pickup are team-members Dick y Davidson,
Brian Wilkensen, and coach Fred Petito.
ning of the season game by worked well as a team." said year," said Wadman. "For the (H. Kingham)
game. We wanted to improve, Senior Brent Wadman. " There past few years, the team has
so the team pulled together. were a lot of people who been down, but this year we
and we played into our weren't as quick or as strong as brought M.N football back!"
strengths.'' others. but they worked hard to Bauerly added. "We wanted
In spite of its rough begin- make up for it." to come away with a good 181
nings . most of the team agreed Bauerly agreed, " Our team feeling, and we did." e
that the season was a success. was die hard and aggressive.