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92_HR1154 LRB9218412HShs 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION 2 WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of 3 the State of Illinois are pleased to honor the achievements 4 of student athletes; and 5 WHEREAS, The El Paso High School football team, the 6 Comets, recently were runners-up in the Class 1A State 7 Football Tournament in Champaign; the Comets finished the 8 season with a record of 13 wins and one loss; and 9 WHEREAS, El Paso won its sixth consecutive Midstate 10 Conference North Division Championship and has won 38 11 straight conference games; the team set a Class 1A Playoff 12 record for most points scored and the largest win in its 64-0 13 victory over Lewistown; Derek Hunsinger set a Class 1A 14 Playoff record for most rushing attempts in a title game with 15 42; the following school team records were set: most wins 16 (season), 13; most points per game, 40.6; most points 17 (quarter), 41; most yards rushing per game, 335.5; most 18 quarterback sacks (season), 27; and individual school records 19 were set by Derek Hunsinger for most points scored (season), 20 194; most touchdowns (season), 32; most yards rushing 21 (season), 2105; most yards rushing (career), 3661; and most 22 attempts rushing (career), 528; by Jesse Smith for most extra 23 points (season), 49; and by Chris Carr for most pass 24 receptions (career), 82; most yards receiving (career), 1628, 25 most TD passes caught (career), 19; and most pass 26 interceptions (career), 13; and 27 WHEREAS, The head coach of the Comets is Mike Souhrada; 28 the assistant coaches are Dick Bouris, Brian Quam, Joe 29 Malcom, Steve Rigsby, Seef Grauer, Brad Bouris, and John 30 Garrett; and 31 WHEREAS, The members of the team are Derek Hunsinger, 32 Kyle Pfister, Isaac Hill, Mike Duncan, Chris Carr, Joe Petta, -2- LRB9218412HShs 1 Brian Harsh, Aaron Seggerman, Seth Shepard, Matt Fogle, 2 Andrew Gilliland, Jesse Smith, Brandon Duffy, Isaac Schmidt, 3 Joel Dudley, Cory Price, Kyle Sigler, Ryan Matzke, Ian 4 McWilliams, Damon Armstrong, David Pignotti, Sean Tibbs, Kurt 5 Iskrzycki, Adam Bean, Jeremy Miller, Jeremy Ales, Jake 6 Barker, Brandon Sylvester, Randy Garrels, Rich Gustafson, Dan 7 Williamson, Jeff Gregory, Quentin Bateman, Brett Fogle, 8 Michael Haas, Bobby Lee, Josh Grimwood, and Max Brucker; and 9 WHEREAS, The team is grateful for their cheerleaders who 10 supported them throughout the season; they are Josey Jones, 11 Gina Miller, Katie Feeney, Jamie Mayotte, Jenny Jones, Billie 12 Joe Payne, Marney Furrow, Aja Haas, Brooke Cunningham, Nicole 13 Roger, Courtney Toillion, Krysti Huckins, Lesley Wilkey, and 14 Kim Wickenhauser; the cheerleader coach is Thayre Furrow and 15 Eric Craddock is Captain Comet; therefore, be it 16 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 17 NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that 18 we congratulate the Comets football team of El Paso High 19 School on finishing second in the State Class 1A Football 20 Tournament; and be it further 21 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be 22 presented to Head Coach Mike Souhrada and each of the 23 contributing members of the Comets mentioned herein with our 24 best wishes for their continued success.