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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are pleased to honor the Mustangs of St. Rita
4 of Cascia High School who won the Class 7A State Football
5 Championship on November 25, 2006; and
 
6     WHEREAS, The Championship game ended with a score of 35 to
7 21 in favor of St. Rita over Lake Zurich; The Mustangs won the
8 first three State playoff games with a combined score of 114 to
9 41 over O'Fallon, St. Charles North, and Morgan Park-Chicago;
10 and
 
11     WHEREAS, St. Rita won the semi-final game in a thrilling 34
12 to 31 victory over Providence Catholic; St. Rita finished the
13 2006 season with an impressive record of 13-1; St. Rita had
14 previously won a State championship 28 years earlier, in 1978;
15 and
 
16     WHEREAS, The Mustangs were encouraged and supported by
17 President and Principal Reverend Thomas McCarthy, OSA, and
18 Athletic Director Bob Conlon; the team was led by Varsity Head
19 Coach Todd Kuska; Assistant Coaches Ray Bugal, Lance Kenzinger,
20 John Nee, Bill Lynch, Kevin Carberry, J.J. Standring, Terry
21 Quinn, Joe Urchak, and Dan Schaller; student managers are Bob
22 Hanley, Brian Foran, Tom Qualter, and Andy Smialek; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, The members of the Mustangs are Matthew Carney,
2 DeOnté Hood, Ralph Gliwiak, Darieon Hood, Clifford Moore,
3 Steven Byrne, John Sullivan, Daniel Jilek, Sean Estand, Peter
4 Balsam, Brendan O'Dwyer, Michael Riordan, Jason Kafka, Earnest
5 Green, Lawrence Garrett, Stephen Atkinson, Stephen Flaherty,
6 Kevin Cornfield, Antwan Love, David Marciano, Daniel
7 Schumacher, Daniel Dispensa, D'Marcus Dullen, Robert
8 O'Connell, Alex Vitkausas, Randall Shannon, William O'Brien,
9 Steven McGowan, Abel Villarreal, John Rowan, Mark Omastiak,
10 Nicholas Oboikovitz, Alan Ross, Gerald Ponio, Jr., Christopher
11 Kocanda, Andy Wilson, Matthew Lostroscio, Martin Hopkins, John
12 Crotty, Brian Popek, Jerome Ward, Kenneth Stoklosa, Matthew
13 Murphy, Sean Leslie, John O'Connor, James Fitzgibbon, James
14 Sojka, Lenny Wheeler, Timothy Arundel, Thomas Harney III, Sean
15 Halloran, Rashad Spells, Thomas Chladek, Vincent Harrison,
16 Thomas Bukowski, Luke Knibbs, Mozar Jerome, Matthew Munizzi,
17 Michael Mullen, Sean Gleason, William Slawson, Patrick
18 O'Malley, Daniel Patrick, Jason Kazlauskas, Edward Carone,
19 Louis Wojnicki, Edward Streit, Michael Martin, Matthew
20 Conrath, Jamie Lick, Mitchell Broderick, Daniel Harney, Kevin
21 Galeher, Daniel Smith, Marques Reed, Taylor Osborn, Melvin
22 Shaw, Daniel Platt, Drew McGowan, Matthew Quinn, Daniel
23 O'Neill, Thomas O'Connor, Rigoberto Gomez, Jr., Warren
24 Higginbothan II, Darius Fleming, Erik Rickert, Michael Altman,
25 Alfonso Castillo, Terence Peter, Ryan Bischoff, and Elkin Smith

 

 

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1 III; and
 
2     WHEREAS, The players and coaches of the St. Rita Mustangs
3 Football team truly deserve to be proud of their championship
4 season; therefore, be it
 
5     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
7 congratulate the St. Rita of Cascia Mustangs Football team, the
8 faculty, staff, students, and alumni for this remarkable
9 football accomplishment; and be it further
 
10     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
11 presented to Principal Reverend Thomas McCarthy, Athletic
12 Director Bob Conlon, and the coaches and players as an
13 expression of our esteem.