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Racing for the free ball is seni or B.J. Gehrki
again st Millard South. Gehrki fini shed th e season KICKING
with I I goals and I 0 assists photo by Anne
Sumner
Warming up for the game is sophomore Dave Hunt. [f
the proper time was not spent in warm -ups, injuries FOR THE
were even more of a threat. phoro by Ryan Bensley
GOALBOX

By: Amy Farrell and Trisha Gilman
Working hard, and coming to- a team and not playing as individuals.
gether as a team were some of the most "My biggest accomplishment this
important ingredients needed in bring- year was scoring two goals against North-
ing together the boys varsity and JV west. But I think that the team's biggest
soccer teams. accomplishment was the season opener
JV soccer coach Jeff Pulverenti against Millard West," Roth said .
said the team had a very successful sea- With the achomplishment of
son , so he was able to bring the players breaking Lincoln East's 17 game winning
together to work as a team to be competi- streak, the boys then moved on to play
tive in every game they played. Norfolk in the district finals.
" This season has gone very "We have been really successful
smoothly with the great effort given by and hopefully our luck will continue in the
players on both the varsity and JV soccer state playoffs. I think that we have a lot of
teams," Pulverenti said . talent overall, and if we can just string it
With a strong defense and a very all together I think things are looking
well-rounded midfield , senior Jason Kisor good," junior Kevin Kerrigan said.
said the varsity season went very smoothly Through hard work and effort
because they worked together and played made by the boys' soccer teams, the
as a team. work paid off. The Varsity team won the
"The season has gone very well district playoffs against Norfolk and con-
with only a few disappointments to tinued into the semi-finals where they
Creighton Prep , which set the tone for the were defeated by Westside 0-1 .
rest of the season and showed us what The JV team ended the year
we needed to do in order to be successful with a very sucessful season and a
for the rest of the season," Kisor said. positive experience in soccer. Returning
For junior Tony Roth , the varsity players said they look forward to next
team put a lot more effort into playing as year's soccer season.

Circling the coach is the JV team at practice after
sc hool. Practi ce was import ant and it required a lot of
extra work on the pl ayers' behalf to win their games.
photo by Ryan Bensley
Keeping hi s eye and foot on th e ball is senior Mike
Wadl eigh at the Papio In vite. Bac k-up behind him was
import ant to keep the team from stealin g th e ball away.
photo by Claire Brown
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