The Year and a Month long on-going memorial service for Nathan Seiter continued last night as the Brossart family gathered to retire his famed #22 Silver Bullet jersey. It wasn't intended to be a memorial service, quite the opposite, it was to be a celebration of his celebrity as a player, icon, and treasure to this high school and a tribute to the talents and skills that he demonstrated while accumulating all of the accomplishments that he achieved while wearing those famed jerseys. The fact of the matter is that it was a memorial service because any testimonial about him reverts back to the least common denominator and that is that he is gone and we all miss him so much.
As Todd Schaefer read his many accomplishments and reviewed the records that he still holds in this program one can not help but be awestruck at just how awesome of a player and a person that he was.
As his mother Irmgard stated in an eloquent acceptance speech, Nathan would have been very proud and humble in receiving this honor although God knows, he earned it.
In the game that followed the Mustangs wasted little time in establishing their superiority over the visiting Big Trains who hadn't visited the SyDome since that fateful night back in January of 2001 when they came to play in the Championship Game of the 10th Region "A" Tournament with a 17-0 record and reservations for rooms in Richmond in tow. Then too the Mustangs established their dominance early and a similar result ensued.
In last night's game, the Trains obliged the Stangs by coming out in the expected zone defense that we had prepared for all week and the Mustangs went through their paces admirably victimizing the defense for 37 first half points, giving the Stangs a 37-17 lead at halftime effectively putting the Silver Grove ball on the wall and giving the Stangs a 2-0 record in the 37th District Seeding Race.
Jimmy Uebel put on a shooting clinic in the second period lighting up the Trains for three - three point goals. The Mustangs would shoot a blistering 83% from the Charity Stripe for the night and five different Mustangs would record double figures led by Troy Cooper with 16 .
Box Score: Kidney 4-0-3/3-11, Lloyd 0-0-2/2-2, Seiter 1-1-4/5-9,
Franzen 1-1-5/6-10, Niemeyer 1-0-0/0-2, Lubbers 5-0-0/0-10,
Uebel 0-3-3/4-12, Mutsch 2-0-4/6-8, Cooper 4-0-8/9-16
Total Mustangs: 18 -5-29/35-80 4-2 1-1
Total Trains: 16- 2-14/17-52 3-5 |
