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ophomore Greg Ryba tries to
                                                                                                            S hold off a Papio lineman in
         JV, Freshman                                                                                       JV football.  The JV team played
                                                                                                            an 8-game season, and ended up
         Football                                                                                           1-7.  Their lone win came
                                                                                                            against Central.
         A drastic change in the       team scored on us; we put
      team's lineup caused  the        our heads down and that
      Junior Varsity's high light      took away all our
      in '91. Sophomore Greg           confidence, and we just
      Ryba was put in the              went down hill from
      quarterback position,            there."
      despite the fact that he'd         Goolsby said the team
      never played it before,          should've improved  with
      Smith said. The low point,  their secondary on defense;
      however, was losing all           "We should've had a lot
      their games, except the          more tackles. I don't think
      victory over Central at the  we tried enough in practice
      end of the season.               on that," Goolsby said.
        Compared to last year's         “Our line really improved."
       freshman team “we're              Goolsby commented on
       arobably just as good as         the way he thought the
       ast year. We lost a lot of       season should've went.  “I
       people (to varsity),"            think we should've taken
       Smith said.                      every game that we played
         “All areas need a lot of       this year. We didn't try
       work. We'll be ready for         hard enough in practice
       next year though," he            and what you do on the
       said.  “A lot of people          practice field is mostly
       never played before. Now         what you're going to do on
       that they know what              the playing field. So if we                                                       ■  A  iiM
       they're doing, hopefully,        didn't do it well at practice,                                                         wr
       they'll play better next         we didn't do it well at the                                                       ,         ..   - 0
       year."                           game." Goolsby gives
         Smith pointed out Ryba         mention to Joe
       and Sophomore Brian              Cunningham for his                                                                  4k
       Miller as showing the            excellent improvement as a
       most improvement and             linebacker.  “He had a lot of
       commented on the season          tackles, and he was really
       saying, “I was kind of           outstanding on defense."
       disappointed. I think we         Overall, Goolsby was
       could have won more              undecided on his opinion
       games than we did."             of the season.  “I was
         The highlight of the          pleased in the way that we             rian Bernth heads up field
       season for the freshmen         played, but we should've            B against Ralston, Yes,
       was the game against T.J.       played a lot harder and            Ralston it was during a soap
       “We scored a lot, and our       won more games. I think            scrimmage held before its first
       defense was really              there are a lot of people on       game.  Admission to the game
       outstanding.  Everybody         the team who really                was a bar of soap.
      got to play and  that was        improved and played well                                                  enior Eric Pitner prepares to
      probably the game that           but we just didn't have it                                             S boom a kick down field
      built up our confidence,"        early enough in the season                                            during practice.  Pitner was a
                                                                                                             spirited player who punted and
      Goolsby said.  “Our low          to win those games."                                                  place kicked for the Rams.
      point was when the other
                                                                          Freshman Football
                                                                          Front Row:  Mike Reilly, Eric Heedum, Jay Amandus, Randy Hood,
                                                                          Steve Gibbons, Tony Pitner, Jordan Reimer, Joe Sandmeier, Jeremy
                                                                          Murray,  Russ  Doll  2nd  Row:  Aaron  Boyd,  Rick  Dunning, Todd
                                                                          Swirczek,  Scott  Gutschewski,  Sean  Carmack,  Chris  Smith,  Josh
                                                                          Norman, Jess Christensen, Kevin Brennan, Chris Linnell, Dan Duarte
                                                                          Back Row:  Coach Rich Emsick, Aaron Goolsby, Joe Cunningham,
                                                                          Stephen  Abraham,  Corey  Gill,  Tyler  Seever,  Cory  Pawloski,  Jeff
                                                                          Shannon, Matt Hughes, Steve Kovar, Scott  Voorhees, Coach Mike
                                                                          Barada, Manager Kevin Weber
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