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Raiders Ha Senior Paul Thorson shows off his catching abilities on the
practice field.

Tough Season

This year's football following game the suspense
season proved to be very remained up for fans because
tough for the Raiders. They of the close scores. In the
had several young players on final quarter only a few points
their team who had the de- seperated the teams and the
tennlnatloo to play but ladled game ended with the Raiders
experience. In the begin- defeating Waterloo by a
ning of the season, lhey just couple of points.
couldn't seem to pull The following games
through. were tough ones for the team.
The first three games The first one was against
they played resulted in up- Dodge, who had only lost one
setting losses for the team. game so far In the season, and
Wille Raider fans were sure they ended up defeating the
err a w1n ap1ns1 Omaha Ch,. Raiders by 46 points. They
llan Academy, they were soon won against Prague by 33
dlssapointed by the results. points, but the following two
The score remained very games were lost, giving the
close and neither team could Raiders a final record of 3-6.
get a tremendous lead on the Paul Thorson received
other. The Raiders lost by All-State honors for class D-
three points after winning the 1. Players who were elected
game several years in a row. into the ECNC All-Conference
The middle of the sea- were Shane Mapes, Paul
up and gave the Thorson, Jon Lee, and Josh
hope. In the Moline. Two players from the
l!.an~e;"ooOmaha Brownell- team were also elected Into
the Academic Allstate Foot-
ball: Paul Thorson and Adam

Bll£k Row (1 to r): Tyler Bergman, Clayton Zuagg, and Colby Schutt Four·th Row (1 to
Zach Wellman, Da\e Baltz, Chris Miller, Josh Moline, Lyle Havelka, Josh Dahl, and
Schmidt Third Row (1 to r): Brendan Murray, Eric Deerson, Jason Larsen, Brad
Maxwell Boldra, Kyle Parsons, and Coach Dahl Second Row (1 to r): Nick
Iiams, Rusty Peterson, Kirk Sake, Shane Morris, John Berry, Brandon Wolfe, and
Nelson Front Row ( 1 to r): Nate Johnson, Dave Rasmussen, Shane Mapes, Paul
Eric Deerson and Dave Rasmussen try to keep warm on the
Jon Lee, Adam Miller, and Jeff Schultz
sidelines.