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bothVends Of this Weekend Friday nigl By Dick Rabbitt After defeating Crystal Lake South in a Fox Valley game on Friday night, the McHenry, Warriors dropped a game to Fremd of Palatine Saturday night 69-52. It was Fremd's first win after losing its first 10 contests this season. It was a typical Saturday night game for tnfe Warriors. Somehow, Warrior team's don't play very good basketball on Saturday night following a Friday night game. As coach Ken Ludwig put it, 14We didn't come to play tonight." McIIenry's split weekend left its overall record at 4-7. On the other side, Moe Tharp of the Vikings was all smiles, "We got the monkey off our back." That Was a phrase used by Ludwig not too long ago. Don Danz, who has not played all season due to an injury, came back for the Vikings and scored 24 points. "You know, we have been waiting for Don Danz to get in the lineup." Thorp - went on to say he thought his team played a little better tonight than they have in previous games. But he then he was quick to add, "we had Danz tonight, don't forget." Ludwig wasn't so happy about Danz's return. "We were not patient with our shots. Our selection was poor. We have to be more consistent in our play." The Warriors shot 23-for-48 from the field, for a respectable 43 percent, but added 18 miscues to 15 for the Vikings. The Warriors, with Dunne, Freund hitting baskets and Scott's charity toss, jumped out to a quick 7-4 lead and managed to stay ahead to lead 13-11 at the end of the first period. The Warriors then went into a second period dry spell. The Vikings, with Danz hitting from close range, pulled away to an 19-15 lead midway in the third period. Mark Peterson took charge^ for the Warriors canr baskets, but the Vikes wim wanz again, and the outside snooting of guard Dave Eck, pulled away to a 29-21 halftime lead. Talk at the concession stand was the Warriors could come back. After all, they trailed South by eight the night before. It looked as if history might repeat itself, as the Warriors came out roaring in the third period. Craig Hill, Scott Freund and Corey Scott all hit the hoop. Hill's three point play brought the Warriors to within four, 37- 33. Then Pat Dunne, with a mid­ air double pump basket from 15- feet, put the Warriors within two, 37-35 at the three minute mark. But again, the Warriors hit a dry spell and the Vikings went on to score nine unanswered points to lead the Warriors, 46-35 going into the final period. Smelling its first victory of the season, Fremd went into high gear in the final period with Danz, Jim Kating and Eck all hitting easy hoops to jump out to a 58-38 lead. The Vikings coasted to their first win of the year. Warrior grapplers KOby South, Wauconda McHenry wrestling coach Marty Sobczak doesn't really know why, but he has noticed the records of most of his wrestlers has been slipping the last couple of weeks. The slump has carried through this past week, and with the Fox Valley Conference schedule heating up, it has the veteran coach concerned. Last Friday the Warriors lost a 43-21 decision to Wauconda, a team they have finished ahead in past tournaments. A weekend disaster was completed on Saturday, as the Warriors lost to Crystal Lake South, 40-19. The two losses drops McHenry's overall record to 5-6 and 1-2 in the FVC. "I don't think the kids were tired, or in less shape than Wauconda or South." said Sobczak. "Wauconda is a very good team. Maybe vacation and the holidays took too much out of the kids. "I thought we had a very good chance to beat them for a change," said Sobczak on the South match. "We matched up real well with South and Wauconda. Too well. If we would have had better results at the lower results it would have been different. We split there. If we would have swept those matches it would have been different. Russ Bunday, at 105- pounds, was the Warriors only double winner. He defeated John Cooper of Wauconda 15-5 and shutout Mark Toetfler 12-0. "At the top of a team meeting, I mentioned the individual records. Bunday and Ric Conners at 15-8 are tops for the team. The rest of the records are slipping little by little. I told them there isn't much time left until con­ ference." Conners ended up splitting his two matches. After losing to Brian Reed of South 6-4, Conners gained a win by forfeit against Wauconda. Two Warrior wrestlers ran ipto some rough com­ petition against Wauconda. At 126-pounds, Eric Gaza lost to Tony Piotrowski 27-6 and Bob Sarabia lost to Darrel Van Horn 25-7 in the 132-pound match. Sobczak tabbed both Piotrowski and Van Horn "excellent wrestlers. Sarabia was able to bounce back against the Gators, and pin Adam Gengler at 1:01. Ga^a. was narrowly edged by Tim Dushimer 4-3. Dave Hawley and , Dan Mohnen were only other wins against Wauconda. Hawley pinned Ken Rivers in 1:51 during the 167-pound match and Mohnen pinned John Webb in 1:12 at heavyweight. Ray Lance and Roland Hunt were winners against Crystal Lake. Lance defeated Dave McMarrow 15-3 at 138-pounds, while Hunt defeated Tom Krelch- mer 7-6. By Mike Lamb The McHenry Warrior girls' basketball team strategy was sound. All they had to do was stop Theresa Hauck from scoring and you stop the Johnsburg offense. It worked for the most part, but McHenry learned an im­ portant lesson - you can stop Hauck most of the time, but not arirthe time. Hauck was held to one fieldgoal in the first half and only scored eight points for the game^But her wide-open jump shot with 12 seconds left on the clock gave Johnsburg a 39-37 lead and the Skyhawks went on to a 39-38 win Saturday. "McHenry played a box-on- one and was tagging her (Hauck) all night," said Johnsburg coach Nancy Fahey. But Fahey said Hauck was still the player to go to when the game is on the line. "The players know who is the best scorer and Theresa wants the ball in that situation. "We kept the pressure on Hauck. It worked pretty well in the first half," said McHenfV coach Pat Wirtz. "She was wide* open for a second, and all or sudden she hit it," When Ilauck wasn't scoring, Michele Swartzloff was picking up the slack. She scored 18 points for the winners. "We were supposed to pick her up.We just had somebody out of position at times," said Wirtz on,. Swart­ zloff's scoring. "But she did a good job." The loss left McHenry with a 3-7 overall record, while Continued on peg* ll PAGE 20 - PLA1NPEALER-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1984 Gators stall backfires into Warrior win in end Johnsburg's Vicki DeBeau comes down with the re'>ound as teammate Kathy Butler and McHenry's Sarah °rust look on. FOR THBSCORE -- with a little leap, Corey Scott of the Warriors gets over the reach of Paul Prentice of the Gators for By Mike Lamb - McHenry coach Ken Ludwig , knew why Gary Collins did it, and didn't blame him for doing it. But you can bet the Crystal Lake South cbach wished he never even thought of it. All Collins did was to execute simple coaching strategy. The result was something that can always happen with coacliing strategy - it backfired. With Crystal Lake holding a 32-26 lead early in the third quarter, Collins ordered his Gators go into a stall. What happen minutes later, wasn't according to plan. The Warriors scored 10 straight unanswered points and went on to shutout the Gators 12- 0 in the third quarter. South would never recover and McHenry went on to a 51-42 victory. The win put McHenry right in the thick of the Fox - Valley Conference race with a 2- 2 record. South fell to 1-3. "I was not real surprised," said Ludwig on Collins' strategy, M"It ended up the turning ̂ Pfflrit of the ballgame. r He decided on holding the ball and it backfired.". Collins wouldn't explain why he went to~\he stall. He had nothing to say after the game. "He wanted us to come out of our zone into man-to-man," Ludwig explained. "I couldn't see going into it. We went into the zone and stuck with it. We couldn't afford to go into the man-to-man." Some bad passes made by the Gators, according to Ludwig, led to the Warrior comeback. Several Warrior steals led to fast baskets by Pat Dunne, Craig Hill and Scott Freund. McHenry won the game without the services 6-foot-6 Mark Peterson in the middle for most of the game. Peterson picked up three quick fouls in the first half, and his fourth foul came early in the third quarter. STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE GAYIORD ^ ̂ ̂ ̂ ̂Ch fOT mOSt Of this bucket in the second quarter Of the third. He came in for the Friday nights game at West Campus. center jumnp to start the fourth Continued on pogo 19 Lady Warriors fail to stop Hauck STAFF PHOTO AAIKF IAMB let's' talk ^ Sports Johnsburg recovers edging Harvard By Barb Ansel! rue JonnsDurg Skyhawks found themselves playing at bothVends Of the spectrum this wteekend. A weak start Friday night and then regrouping Saturday for a turn around which allowed them to claim an overtime victory from the Harvard Hornets 65-64. "It was the best ball game of the year for us," said Skyhawk coach Ben Beck about Saturday night's win. "We went in with a new line-up, using Jeff Nichols who gave us quickness and scoring which we have needed." Johnsburg's lack of leadership founds the Skyhawks giving Grant a 46- 39 victory on Friday. On Saturday Hawks took the lead after the first quarter and led by seven points at the half 32-25. The lead remained until there were just two minutes left in the game. But the Skyhawks beat themselves at the line, missing the front-end of six one and one free throw shots and allowed Harvard to put themselves back into the game. In the final seconds of the garihe, with the Skyhawks down 59-58, Johnsburg's Jeff Preston had the opportunity to take the game as he went to the charity stripe, Preston made the first shot but missed the second. Harvard's desperation shot at the buzzer was also no good ending regulation time in a 59-59 deadlock. The overtime not only gave the Skyhawks new life, but it also gave Preston the opportunity to redeem himself as he scored the winning basket on a baseline drive to give the Skyhawks ' the 65-64 lead. "Although our free throw shooting left little to be desired, I was very pleased * with the rest of our performance," praised^ Beck. "We played smart ball, with the intensity we lacked on Friday, and I am encouraged by those things." The 'Hawks leading scorers against Harvard included: Preston with 16, Jeff Jayko with 14, Greg Sobiesk with 13, and Jeff Nichols with 10. On the defensive end Sobiesk and Preston controlled the rebounding with seven each and Joe Majercik, Jayko and Preston each provided five assists. Intensity and desire were the key elements lacking in the Skyhawks game on Friday night. "The real thing to winning games is desire, and we must want to do the things we need to do to get the job done," said Beck. The lead seesawed during the first half with Grant having the advantage in the first quarter, but Johnsburg rebounded and took a second quarter 21-19 into the locker rooms. However it was Grant who dominated the entire second half as they capitalized on numerous Skyhawk tur­ novers and missed Skyhawk shots. But Johnsburg was still in the game in the final minutes as they were only down by a point. "We could have tied the game then," said coach Beck. "We had two opportunities, but we didn't have the desire that Grant had and they used their desire to win the game." Beck said that along with free throws the Skyhawks will also be working on improving their intensity. "By working hard in practice we will create intensity. When shooting is 89 percent concentration and we don't play with in­ tensity our shots will be off." Leading the Skyhawks in buckets were Jeff Nichols with 12 and Jeff Preston with 11. While Preston brought down eight rebounds and Joe Majercik had five. Both Grant and Johnsburg went into Friday night's game with 1-2 conference records, which left John­ sburg dropping to 1-3 in the Northwest Suburban Conference. While the Skyhawks overall record moves to 5-7 with their win over Harvard. The Skyhawks will take their new line-up and new in­ tensity drive to Wauconda on Friday night.