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PAGE § - PLA1NDEALER - FRIDAY, JANUARY 7,1983 The McHenfyt Plaindealer \X - ; * . Skyhawks And Panthers Will See Their Double Although the names and faces will be different, when the Johnsburg Skyhawks and Round Lake Panthers r face each other Friday night in a boys basketball .Northwest Suburban Conference battle, they might sfefe some resemblences. Both the Panthers and the Skyhawks are considered to have the same characteristics. Both teams are small and rely on quickness and hustle to overcome heighth. The only difference is in the records. Round Lake is 1-2 in the NWSC, while Johnsburg is still looking for a win at 0-4. Saturday, the Skyhawks take on rival Harvard at the Johnsburg gym. "We can't let them (Johnsburg) out- ^ hustle us," said Panther coach, Jim X / Prorok. "I have talked to other "poaches who have spouted them and they say Johnsburg works very hard. We are very, very similiar." Despite the Skyhawks hustle, wins have come sparingly for Coach Ben Beck. "We are looking to get our first win in -conference play," said Beck. Pigtail League The Johnsburg Pigtail League will hold its registration on Saturday Jan. 15. Registration will be held at the James C. Blish school in Johnsburg at Id a.m. til 2 p.m. "U's going to be tough to play in their gym." Both Beck and Prorok agree the strength of both teams is in the guard play. The Panthers are led tjy Jerry Cheeks with a 17 points per game ^avfcrage at one guard and Kevin Wibright at the other guard with a 13 points per game average. Facing a team with similiar characteristics is a lot easier to prepare for, according to Bedc. "We see the same kind of people all week long in practice. It proposes some interesting matchups." Prorok also knows what it will take to win Friday and it seems the Pan­ thers also have the same kind of problems the Skyhawks face. "It will be a matter of guard play and the total effort by the entire team in passing and execution. We have to play total defense. "Our team has to play four full quarters to win. We havn't been able to put four good quarters together." Beck calls Harvard stvery good and experiened ballcub. Many of the players have two to three years of experienced. "They hurt you in many ways," said Beck. The key is containing thqse two ballplayers (Tim Anderson and' Craig Carlson. We have to control the tempo against Harvard." FVC Does All Right At Toilrneys The Fox Valley Conference didn't do too bad over the holidays in various basketball tournaments. * „ , Jacobs was the lone champion, winning the Northern Illinois Classic at Hampshire. Both Woodstock and Crystal Lake South finished second in their respective tourneys -- the Streaks at Wheeling and the Gators at Grayslake. Crystal Lake Central won a couple at the DeKalb tourney, while the Warriors broke their non-conference jinx and finished runnerup to SchaUmburg/in consolation finals at Wheeling. The Warriors won a couple, defeating Riverside-Brookfield and Morton East. The Cafds of Paul Judson at Dundee lost in the consolation fianls at Elgin and Crown won a game at Grayslake. Only the Trojans of Cary- Grove did not participate during the holidays. Even with the fine showing, in the long run. Fox Valley teams have a combined record of 29-30 outside the conference. The Warriors are 2-5 and Jacobs is the big winner posting a 9-1 record. South is 6-2, Woodstock 4-5, Central 4-3, Dundee 4-3, .Crown 0-5 and Cary-Grove 0-6. Either the competition is getting stronger, or the conference teams are not as strong as in the past. Teams like to play outside their conference, becuase the experience is great, the competition is very strong and they see a lot of different types of coaching. Maybe one of these years the Warriors can host a Christmas Holiday tourhey. Pat Wirlz's "Lady Warriors" open conference pay this week, with a game last night at Jacobs and traveling to Dundee Tomorrow for a 1:30 p.m. game. Here is hoping the "Ladies" have better luck as the season progresses. ) The Warriors will host a junior 'varsity wrestling tournament tomorrow beginning at 9 a.m. Tonight the Warriors host the Gators of Crystal Lake South in a mathch at 6:00 p.m. Both the dual against South and the junior varsity tourney will be held at West Campus. Mike Shanahan's "Water Warriors" were at Elgin on Tuesday and next Thursday will host Woodstock at the West Campus pool at 4:30 p.m. Our genial athletic director, Joe Schlender, has informed me about a weight training program at West Campus on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 2:30 until 3:30 p.m. On The Sidelines * By Dick Rabbitt All students, both boys and girls not enrolled in a winter sport, are invited to participate. Penn State, the number one football team in the country, has the same program. It is a program that both boys and girls can enjoy. It is based on maximum performance principles, or as Coach Joe calls it, the M.P.P. It is a routine based on heavy negative resistance training. ( I asked Joe "if it would improve my putting?" I'got no answer, but if it could, I could fill the class with a Jot of my golfing friends and I vam not going to mention any names. •* . - ******** Down memory lane this week,, we go back and I mean back -- to the 1947 McHenry County Tournament held at Woodstock for the game between the Warriors and the Richmond Rockets. The Warriors won the game 52-35. Glenn Peterson with 13 points, led the Wamors and Allen Bockman and McCulla each picked up 12 points. - Leading the Rocket attack was the personable "Big Chief" of Hunter Country Club in Richmond, Sonny Katzenberg withl2 points. Katzenberg went on to play ball for Dolp Stanley (a basketball legend) at Beloit College. McHenry 52 Richmond 35 McHenry: Goldbeck 2-0-4 4, Backman 6-0-V 12, Miller 3-1-4 7, Peterson 5-3-3 13, Olsen 1-0-0 2, McCulla 4-4-2 12, Piesert 1-0-2 2, Becker 0-0-2 0, totals 22-8-18 52. Richmond: Anderson 0-1-2 1, Burton 1-1-4 3, Pickering 2-1-4 5, Katzenberg 5-2-1 12, Jackson 4-2-210, Pretzman 0-0-2 0, Condor 2-0-5 4, totals 14-7-21-35. McHenry 1514 617 -- 52 ^Richmond 98 99 -- 35 ******* Like S.I.H., just recieved my ticket to the Johnsburg Old Timers baseball dinner on Jan. 24.1 am looking forward to that event, as it is always a good time. Crystal Lake South Gators Will Be A Hand Full For Warrior Cagers DICK RABBITT Coach Ken Ludwig and his "Fighting Warriors" will have their hands full this weekend when they travel to Crystal Lake to take on the "Gators" of Gary Collins tonight and then play Fremd of Palatine at West Campus Saturday. The Gators are 3-1 in the Fox Valley and for one of the few times are looking up in the standings at the Warriors. The Gators only loss in conference play was a 66-64 thriller to co-leader Jacobs, who along with the Warriors, are both 4-0. Collins has a wealth of talent at the Crystal Lake school, with lettermen all over the place. Leading the Gators is senior Tom Dayton, a 6-foot-2 center center, who is a great rebounder. Butch Witt, at 6-foot-3, is one of the talest guards in the Fox Valley and has made the winning basket in three of the Gators nine wins this year. Mike Geske at 6-foot-l, along with Ed Kothera, another six-footer, will play the forwards. Bob Murphy is another guard. The Gators play a pressing defense,which the Warriors will have to overcome to be successful tonght. The Warriors fresh from a split of four games in the Wheeling tourney, hope Mike Bauml will be able to play in order to be at full strength. The Warriors are the surprise team in the FVC this season, winning only three games all last season. They have already doubled that number this season. Moe Tharp, an old coaching rival of Ken Ludwig back in the North Suburban, will bring his Vikings here tomorrow night. The Vikes of the Mid- Suburban are over .500 at this point:,In their last encounter, they lost to Elgin in the finals of the Elgin Holiday Tourney 59-53, blowing a short lived final period lead. The Vikings are led by Joe Youman, who is averaging oven 20 points per game this season. The Vikings like to press, very aggressive and are a big physical team. Former Player Fails To Beat Old Coach At 8th Grade Tourney VIIKK LAMB Did you ever see the beer commercial where the coach of xine basketball team is coaching Dick Seaborn against his old coach and his team won? Well that same situation kinda occurred at the 1983 McHenry American Legion eighth grade basketball tournament at Parkland Junior High School Wednesday night. The consolation game featured a matchup which had Johnsburg Junior High Coach Dick Seaborn coaching against Don Bentz of St. Johns, who played underneath him in fifth grade. But this time the pupil lost against his former coach, unlike the commercial. Johnsburg defeated St. Johns 46-23 for the constat ion cham­ pionship In**ilie championship game. Richmond held off a Montini fourth quarter rally and won 49-42. Both Seaborn and Bentz seemed to remember lhat vear when that fifth grade team went undefeated in the Fox Valley eight and 17-5 overall. It was the season of 1971-72 and it was Seaborn's second year of coaching. "Don was a short little pudgy kid, but he could play basket­ ball." said Seaborn. •You should see Bentz now. At the age of 21. he is a towering solid figure, big enough to play tackle for the Chicago Bears. After fifth grade, he was promoted past the sixth grade team to the seventh grade team. After eighth grade. Bentz played three years at McHenry High School and his senior was played at the brand new Johnsburg High School. He later went on to play one year at Rockford College. "It was quite an experience," added Seaborn >n the squad he coached 12 years ago. "They were good 'hat year. We ran up some horrendous scores. We beat F'..x River Grove 52-2 We didn't : VM. ' :• m Don Bentz try to run the score up; everybody played." As the two sat their digging back into the past, both tried to outdo Jhe other in remembering namesjrom that team. Bentz played center on the squad "We were undefeated in conference. Naturally that is what you strive for.' said Bentz. •Johnsburg has always been a good conference team -- always. in the top three." \Vednesday's confrontation was the first ever for the two coaches. Bentz lias been coaching the eighth araders at St. Johns the last couple yeah*. while this is Seaborn first yearVt the eighth grade helm at Johnd^burg junior high. He coached the seventh graders for several yeprs before that. In fact. Parklanfl athletic director Duight llifnicke said they purposely iri^f to separate the two in the opening pairings. St. Johns and. Johnsburg. although in the same town", have only played each ..ther twice in the last live years* Johnsburg plays in the Fox Valley Conference and St. Juhns plavs in the Catholic School Conference. Both gentleman are ""jifood friends and bu\h \\<.rk for the Johnsburg rescue squad and didn't see he iiame as grudge4® match. They .us: wanted to see a good game uayed. Alter he L'an c., both coaches had some kind w •,rds lor each team and 'he .layers. "I think he ilayers were just too tired." -aid Beniz. "They played hree an'.vs in three nights. Yha>'s ;»ret'v strenuous for them. "1 don't have ne numbers as everybody else. Winning is fun, hut somebody has to los£." » Seaborn, who is 37-years old. also has a son on his team who was celebrating a birthday on the same day as the game. "He played the game and then went right home for his birthday party," he said. Both coaches added that the biggest thing they and their players have learned in grade school basketball is respfebt for each other. According to Bentz, "You have to have respect from both the . v- jfplavers and coaches." f • Ron Szat led all scorers in the consolation game with 36 points for the Johnsburg squad. Frank PJusak scored 10 for them. For St. ^John's. Pat Boulder and Brian Peisert scored six. Ij/ the championship game, -Richmond held a slim lead throughout the first half, taking a 19-18 advantage into halftime. Led by Brad Miller who scored 10 of his 28 points ih the third quarter. Richmond opened up a 27-22 lead. But the Montini Mustangs came roaring back to take a 38-37 lead on a jump shot by Bob Diedrich. That lead was short lived, however, as Richmond came right back and outscored the Mustangs 5-0 to preserve the win. Miller scored 12 in that fourth quarter -- eight on free throws Matt Roy led Montini scoring with 13 points and Todd Trocki scored 10. - ' * '* & i'w- x;^X; a t HM 'Mk' '-'M. 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