Full Text of HR0772 94th General Assembly
HR0772 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, In an exciting double overtime finish, the | 3 |
| Lincoln-Way East Griffins defeated the Maine South High School | 4 |
| Hawks by a score of 30 to 24 to win the IHSA Class 8A State | 5 |
| Championship football game on Saturday, November 26, 2005; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, This is the first Class 8A championship game to be | 7 |
| played in overtime; and
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| WHEREAS, To reach the championship game, the Griffins | 9 |
| defeated Thornton, Lincoln-Way Central, Brother Rice, and | 10 |
| Wheaton Warrenville South in the IHSA playoffs; the team | 11 |
| finished the season with a record of 14 wins and no losses; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, The Lincoln-Way East Griffins are the first | 13 |
| football program in Illinois history to win a State | 14 |
| championship within five years of playing their first game; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, Lincoln-Way East is the first high school football | 16 |
| team to have played in the State playoffs in each of its five | 17 |
| seasons; and
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| WHEREAS, The head coach of the Griffins is Rob Zvonar; his | 19 |
| assistant coaches are Joel Pallissard, Jack Eddy, Mike Franta, | 20 |
| Ron Tomczak, Steve Tomczak, Ryan Gabey, Dave Woodburn, Lance | 21 |
| Lokanc, Brian Newcomb, Dave Murray, Josh Kreske, Eric | 22 |
| Doornkaat, Louis Lee, Mitch Nowicki, Jeff Maurer, Scott Reid, | 23 |
| John Piazza, Steve Bauer, Kyle Jakubek, and Jeff Winefka; | 24 |
| student coaches are Ben VanPelt and Mike Czarnowski; Philip | 25 |
| Duckworth is the team's ballboy; and
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| WHEREAS, The trainers for the Griffins are Cody Cowman, | 27 |
| Matt Zalewski, Dr. Aaron Wolfe, Dr. Mike Corcoran, and Dr. Brad | 28 |
| Katzman; and
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Griffins are Marvin Cosby, Pat | 2 |
| Geary (captain), Anthony Kropp (captain), Andy Gerritsen, | 3 |
| Austin Zenere, Paul Bria, Andrew Ramus, Mike Charles, Blake | 4 |
| Hammond, Matt Walenga, Kyle Geary, Dan Cebula, Dan Fiorenza, | 5 |
| Kyle Grossheider, Marty Pokorney, Gersi Hoxha, John Griffin, Al | 6 |
| Mau (captain), Gian Angelo, Brendan Mulheran, Ben Petrassi, | 7 |
| Andy Mau, Cory Swaim, Matt Paez, Noel Borg, Kyle Oskielunas, | 8 |
| Isioma Ebiringah, Gus Olofsson, Tom Lilja, Michael Boettcher, | 9 |
| Jeff Grunwald, Sean Lynch, Chris Lozynski, Kyle Bewley, Ryan | 10 |
| Weber, Jon Olofsson, Max Moore, Kevin Wittl, Landon Wallace, | 11 |
| Tom Lynch, Joe Turek, Dan Pirkle, Steve Elkow, Steve Nwokocha, | 12 |
| Dan Pammer, Ryan Ruiz, John Koszulinski, Shaun Grady, Jake | 13 |
| Popovich, Nick Slager, Sean Smith, Josh Reid, Josh Soliday, | 14 |
| Steve Sims, Kyle Harke, Nick Tadros, Phil Wing, Will | 15 |
| Villasenor, Andrew Tagli, Wade Novak, Kyle Liston, Blake Lucas, | 16 |
| Dave Denardo, Kyle Houlahan, Tom Raines, Keenan Clifford | 17 |
| (captain), Dan Giordano, Jerry McInerney, Adam Gettis, Sam | 18 |
| Pranckus, Joe Mau, Hank Johnston (captain), Erick Starke, Steve | 19 |
| Tepper, Phil Dixon, Tim Brooks, Cory Dybas, Corey Smith, Dave | 20 |
| Liston, Jake Bewley, Terry Kuzel, Casey Luther, Colin Luczynski | 21 |
| (captain), D.J. Pirkle, Alex White, Mike Wheatley, and Bill | 22 |
| Clemens; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 24 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 25 |
| we congratulate the Lincoln-Way East Griffins football team on | 26 |
| winning the Class 8A IHSA State Championship; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to | 28 |
| each of the members of the 2005 Lincoln-Way East Griffins | 29 |
| football organization as an expression of our esteem.
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