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The varsity had a great year, blowouts." Keifer thinks the
apparent by its 17-6 record. It's a player who showed the most
victory trail that's been long general improvement is Senior
awaited. "We'd talked about it Chris Dahl. "I knew he was
when we first started playing, good, but now he's all-state.
back in 7th grade. We'd say He made himself though. He
'wait till our senior year'. Then worked hard for that," Keifer
when you throw in Krause and said. The players showing
Mosser, our younger people, it's exceptional ability all season in
just really good," Senior Jason Keifer's opinion are Junior
Keifer said. He thinks the reason Mitch Mosser and Senior
for the success is the players each Christian Kratina. "Christian
do a part, then together they is the hard worker; he's the
form an all-around powerful blue collar man, and Mitch just
team. "We've got a good mix of has talent." Keifer also cited
everything. We have people Coach Jack Stewart for his
who can shoot, people who can good work. "He's really
pass, people who can run." The aggressive. He expects a lot
Rams showed off their ability at out of us. With some teams
the Civic Auditorium against that wouldn't work but I think
Creighton Prep. Keifer said we're all pretty much
beating them in the semi-finals overachievers."
was a real highlight. He also The Junior Varsity guys had
mentioned their first game a season just short of their
against rival Omaha Benson as aspirations. "We're pretty
being their worst. "We knew we disappointed. We just weren't
were good, but everything went playing up to our capability,"
wrong that night," Keifer said. Junior Ryan Tex said. He said
The major area of improvement the JV's worst performance
for the varsity was individual was at Columbus where they
work. "If you work on were down as much as 40
individual things, then the points, but came back at the
others on the team will get better. end to lose by only 18. The
We're just stronger all around," team had its best performance
Keifer said. On the other hand, against Thomas Jefferson
the team still needed to improve where they "played really
on free throw shooting. "In some hard." The JV boys tried real
of our games, if we would have hard to make themselves better
hit 80 percent of our free throws, players. "We started to come
they would have been together as a team more."

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second shot by Travis Hansen, Jason Delle, Shane Lowry, Ryan Tex, Matt Frey, Blake
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