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Chris Jwxwilt Sp*rH Editor Running wild... ~€reutz, varsity boys rule McHenry County Boys of summer : call it quits again Thoughts on a baseball season lost in the sun ... So, that was the World Series, huh? Didn't really do much for ale, being so anti-climactic as it was. Joe Garagiola and Vin Scully didn't help much either. The best announcer NBC has, Bob CostaiL was relegated to doing dugout interviews minutes before ffcmetime. Where was Harry Caray when we really, honestly, needed him? A month or so back, I wondered if Detroit had lost their hunger after such an unreal start of the season. Guess they answered my question. I really did think the Tigers needed a challenge of some sort to Bear them up for the playoffs and Series. The only problem was, mere's no team in baseball capable of offering such a test. ; Detroit really deserved to win it all. I was wondering how they would have felt had they lost in the playoffs or Series. I mean, everybody pretty much expected them to win after their start. Anything less would have been looked upon as a failure, I would imagine. San Diego's starting pitching staff looked like it had never seen major league hitters before. 1 throw better with a wiffle ball than tfaoee guys did in the Series. /- EVEN THOUGH HE blew game seven with two gopher balls to Lance Parrish and Kirk Gibson, I really enjoyed watching Goose Gossage. He's a throwback. Sure, he got beat, but he went down dping his thing. Every time he steps on the mound, the batter knows what's coming. It's no guessing game. There's no worry about aj9crewball or a forkball or anything new-fangled like that. It's fastballs, heaters. Either you hit it or you don't. More often than not, Gossage wins. •He will be second-guessed, as will Padre manager Dick ^Williams, for not walking Gibson to load the bases. But he had Struck Gibson out, during one stretch, 13 of the 15 times the two had met. While watching the conversation on the mound, I saw Qossage tell Williams, "let's go after him." I like that. He lost, but as one blue-eyed crooner would tell you, Gossage did do it his 'way. f Gossage is really a tough guy. He's so mean and ornery- looking. If it were me up there, I don't think I'd get anywhere ' near the plate. You want to strike me out Mr. Goose? That's fine. Go right ahead. I REALLY ENJOY Gossage's mustache. He's one guy about whom I've never wondered how his free time is spent. He takes good care of that thing. It's a part-time job. Gibson looked pretty scraggly in game seven, but that was amateurish. Sure he hit a homer. But Gossage won the facial hair battle. The Padre relief pitchers kept their team in the Series, or else it would have been totally unfair and one-sided, instead of just somewhat unfair and one-sided. As it was, the Padres really didn't get demolished or humiliated, really. They lost the four games by a total of 10 runs. Their starting pitchers, in four outings, hurled just over 10 in­ nings. Brides that, the Padres really did do okay, they just weren't any match for Detroit. How would the Cubs have done? Makes you wonder. Which brings me to another question: Why can't teams repeat as division champions anymore? Twelve different playoff teams in three years? Is something going on here we're not supposed to know about? That just doesn't make any sense to me. How can a team (no names mentioned) go from a 99-win season one year, to under .500 the next? Same players. Same manager. Same fans. Same ballpark. Same division. I don't get it. I do have a theory, however. No, you didn't ask, but ... I think players get too lazy. They have a really good season, sign on for big bucks, and then get soft. They rest on their laurels. Then, when it comes right down to it, they've lost the edge. Just a theory. ALAN TRAMMELL is undoubtedly a great player. Sparky Anderson throws superlatives Trammel's way like bread crumbs to a pigeon. Hey, Sparky - we can see how good the guy is. He's super defensively, and he's the most consistent, most valuable hitter on a star-studded baseball team. Let his actions speak for your words. Trammell was the MVP in the Series, deservedly so. The MVHRT (most valuable home run trot) was a more difficult decision. San Diego's Kurt Bevacqua had a sensational jaunt around the bases, complete with a pirouette at first base, during game two in Padrelana. Gibson's second homer Sunday provided the early fireworks - Detroit fans overturning cars and lighting them aflame offered the latter display - and his jubilant hand- slapping with teammates at home plate was pretty good. But Bevacqua wins this contest. Why? See, Gibson is left-handed. As he was high-fiving it with Castillo, Lou Whitaker, Parrish, etal., he was using his right hand. Too clumsy, this judge decided. Congratulations, Kurt. Yes, the boys of summer nave tapped the mud off their cleats for the final time in 1984, but have heart. Opening day is less than ; five months away. I can hear Harry already. Holy cow. Netters fifth at FVC • CRYSTAL LAKE - ! McHenry's Geri Haner and ; Michelle* Landis - the team's number two doubles duo - ! added to their trophy collection 'by taking second place in the •Fox Valley this past weekend at .'the conference meet at CL .Central. ' " • • The pair had previously won !the title at the McHenry In- jvitational. The McHenry team • finished fifth with 20% points. ICL South won the meet with { 1 0 . < Haner and Landis were I McHenry's only entry in the championship round. After a bye m the first round, the ! number two seeds outlasted Crystal Lake Central's Marti i McKillip and Lynette Strzempa, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. In the championship match, . fdfnor and Landis were soundly Ibfeaten by Crystal Lake South's <lii Franz and Chris DeThorne, 6-1. • McHENRY'S NUMBER one ! teai" of seniors Sara Bird and • Kris Wolff finished fourth in the In round one, the rd-Wolff team defeated Keeler and Robin of Dundee-Crown, and then'met up with a tough CARY - Ho-hum. There's another addition to the list of certainties. Before, the list included only death and taxes. The newcomer is McHenry's cross-country team winning the McHenry County championship. It was business as usual for the Warrior runners. Chris Creutz was crowned county champ, teammate Terry Harth followed closely behind, and the remainder of the team picked up the slack, as McHenry cruised to its fourth consecutive McHenry County crown at the Hollows Conservation in Cary, easily outdistancing second place Woodstock. The Warriors finished with 44 points, while the Blue Streaks had 83. Creutz continued his excellent season with a time of 16:51 over the 3:15-mile course, shattering ;i Chris Cre«tz the previous course record by 59 seconds. JUNIOR Harth finished in 17:22, good for fourth place in the race. J.R. Wright was 10th, at 17:59, followed by Mike Maksymiak, 14th (18:23). Pat Donahue was 15th (18:25), Jim Wautelet 33rd (19:22) and Chris Mumma 35th (19:31). Creutz' closest competitor was Woodstock's Scott Jackson, who finished the race in 17:14,23 seconds behind the McHenry senior. Garth Lewis of Jacobs was third in 17:17, and after Harth, Mike Lawrence of Johnsburg was fifth, 17:24. The Skyhawks finished in a tie for fifth with Crystal Take Central. Each team had 104 {bints. Following McHenry and Woodstock were Jacobs (96), CL South (97), Johnsburg and Central (104), Harvard (178) and Cary-Grove (179). THE WARRIOR runners were fortunate that Carpentersville is on the opposite side of the county line. The Dundee-Crown Chargers handed McHenry a tough 26-19 loss last Thursday. There will be no running from D- C, however. The Chargers will be on hand Saturday at West Campus for the Fox Valley Conference meet. Against D-C and Cary-Grove last week, Creutz finished second, Harth third and Wright fifth, as the Warriors were edged by the Chargers. McHenry crushed Cary-Grove, 15-43. Mike Buhrow of IVC won in 15:19. Creutz* time was 15:55. After Harth (16:13) and Wright (16:36), Donahue finished ninth and Makfymiak tenth to close out the Warrior scoring. McHenry will host FVC rivals South, Central, Woodstock, Cary-Grove, Jacobs and D-C at West Campus Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. Frosh-soph follows suit CARY -- The McHenry High frosh-soph boys' cross-country team followed the lead of its varsity teammates, and won a McHenry County title of its own Saturday. Buoyed by consistency, the Warriors easily outdistanced CL South, 36-62. CL Central was third, Jacobs fourth and Woodstock fifth. Harvard, Johnsburg and Cary-Grove followed. John Chesler paced th^ Warriors with a second-place finish, covering the 3:15 mile course in 18:32. Tom Grant was third (18:45), Jeff Zurblis fourth (18:55), Rick Pankiewicz sixth (19:19), Scott Shanholtzer 21st, (21:04) and Tony Salgado 22nd, (21:52). The Warriors were without the services of Bill Creutz, who was out with an injury. * Against D-C and Cary-Grove last Thursday, McHenry trounced Cary-Grove, but was edged by the Chargers, 26-31. Grant was second, Zurblis fourth, Chesler sixth and Pankiewicz seventh for the Warriors. Bradley leads the way, Warrior girls finish fifth CARY -- McHenry's girls' cross-country team couldn't duplicate the feats of the Wiurrior boys by winning a county championship Saturday, but they did finish fifth, led by a sixth-place finish' by Pam Bradley. McHenry ended the meet with 124 points. Jacobs won the .title with 36. 9 Bradley's sixth-place time was 13:47 over the 2.15-mile course, as Jacobs' Kate Kelly won the race in 12:59. Finishing next for McHenry was MarySchultz, 14th in 14:26. Dee Paulsen was 30th (15:29), Trudy Milstein 32nd (15:44), and Kim Yost 48th (17:20). Emily Fornwall and Laurie Mroz were 58th and 61st, respectively. Last Thursday against Cary- Grove and Dundee-Crown in Carpentersville, the girls were beaten twice. Bradley was third and Schultz ninth to lead the way. ; v v • Unlucky 'Hawks lose homecoming tilt By Barb Ansel! PUladM)*r-H«rald aportawritw JOHNSBURG - The 13th day of October proved to be an unlucky day for the Johnsburg High gridders, as the Grayslake Rams took advantage of the Skyhawks, claiming a 14-10 victory. ft was not the welcome the Skyhawks had hoped to give their returning alumni on the homecoming event. Johnsburg hopes were buoyed by a 21-14 victory over Marengo last week, but their momentum was halted by too many errors. "WE MADE physical and mental mistakes throughout the game," conceded a disappointed Skyhawk coach Randy Oberembt. "We dropped four passes which should have meant first downs for us. Instead, Grayslake was able to capitalize on our mistakes. When you play the way we played, you cannot expect to win." The first Skyhawk failure came at the outset of the contest, when Johnsburg began at its own 40-yard line. Johnsburg moved into scoring position to the Ram 16, only to be stopped by a stingy defense which twice sacked quarterback Mark DuRei on the initial drive. WITH THREE minutes left in the first quarter, Grayslake jumped ahead. Quarterback Tom Castino, pressed into his first varsity signal-calling job, discovered his arm was one of his best assets, as he threw a 30- yard pass to John Lui. Mike Castino's extra point was good, giving the Rams a 7-0 lead with lust under a minute left in the first stanza. "Our usual quarterback, Maurey Sage, was hurt in practice," explained Grayslake coach Tom Wittum. "This was the first time Tom Castino has ever played in that position, fife threw the ball well, however, we did run the ball more than usual. With the support of our backs and offensive line, we did a good job." THE SKYHAWKS quickly jumped back into the ballgame, as Dan Stefka ran 33 yards to the three-yard line pn the 'Hawks' next possession. On a keeper, DuRei carried into the endzone for the touchdown. Mike Majercik's extra point kick tied the game at VI. The ensuing kickoff traveled only 10 yards, but the mistake surprised the Rams' Dave Rolseth, who fumbled the ball. Johnsburg's Don Thennes reacted quickly to pounce cm the loose ball. "That kickoff was a poorly hit ball," said Oberembt. "Things just worked out well for us." Johnsburg began the next drive on Its own 45. After marching to the 14, DuRei bobbled the snap from center, but recovered, losing a yard. On third 4owtt, he was stopped at the line of Tfimmage, forcing a field goal try. Maiercik's 25- yard boot was good, and with less than three minutes left in the half, Johnsburg held a 10-7 (Turn to pmge lit Warriors rip Jacobs to even season record Woodstock pair, Robin Bosman and Katie Schuh. The Blue Streak girls handed Bird and Wolff a tough 3-6,6-4,6- 4 defeat. In the third place match against South's Marie Dollohan and Tammy Heinke, the Lady Warriors blew a 4-1 lead in the third set, giving them a fourth place finish. The Warrior singles players all met similar fates. Number one Melissa Rhode lost to conference champion Kathleen Meyer of Woodstock in the first round, 6-0, 6-0 and then was edged by Natalie Schroeder of D-C, 6-0, 7-5. Number two player Melissa Greve was downed by Amanda Paul of Cary-Grove, 6-0, 6-2 in round one, and then lost to Central's Sarah Grossenbach, 6- 1, 6-|. At number three singles, Sue O'Halleran, who suffered a back injury during a Friday practice, lost to Cary's Kim Ronlwing, the eventual third singles champ, 6- 1, 6-1 and then was forced to retire in the first set against Sue Powers of Woodstock. The Warriors will host the sectional meet Friday and Saturday at West Campus. By Dick Rabbitt PUlndealar-HaraM aportawritcr ALGONQUIN - For the first time this season, the McHenry High School gridders put together back-to-back wins, the latest a nifty 33-14 victory over Jacobs here Saturday. The victory was the Warriors' first Fox Valley Conference triumph of the season, and evened the team's record at 3-3. It came on the heels of a homecoming win over Im­ maculate Conception of Elmhurst last week. Jacobs is 0- 3, 2-4 overall. M c H e n r y c o m p l e t e l y dominated the same both of­ fensively and defensively, as they racked up 209 yards rushing, and 127 through the air. The vastly improved Wfuxior defense held the Jacobs crew to only 132 total yards for the day. PAT DUNNE had his second straight 100-yard rushing day, gaining 101, and leading the Warrior rushing parade, as they ran around ana through the Golden Eagles in an excellent display. Curt Jus ten was on the receiving end of four Craig Hill aerials, including two for touch­ downs. But it was up front where the game was really won. Both lines played outstanding football, and if the cliche is true that games are won in the trenches, there was no doubt as to Saturday's outcome. , The game began with Jacobs starting on its own 28. On the second play from scrimmage, Brad Snyder picked off a pass on the 39, and the Warriors looked to be in business. DUNNE PICKED up seven yards, but Hill was intercepted on the next play. The Warriors held Jacobs, and forced a punt, after which McHenry marched to the Eagle 10, but lost the ball on downs. After another Golden Eagle punt, McHenry took over at midfield, and began its first scoring drive of the game. Dunne and fellow back Dana Pitel, along with Hill, took the ball to the Jacobs 15. Hill then dropped back and tossed a scoring pass to Justen. Dunne's kick was good, and the Warriors led 7-0 at 2:29 of the period. Jacobs took the ensuing kickoff to the Warrior 40 as time ran out in the first period. The Eagle drive continued in the second stanza, as they drove to the Warrior 24, before a gallant 'McHenry defense held on fourth and one. IT WAS then time for Warrior scoring drive number two. Dunne gained 16 yards off- tackle. Pitel picked up six more, and Hill got a first down on a keeper. Dunne then ripped off 12 yards more, and with a 15-yard penalty assessed against Jacobs, McHenry was suddenly on the 20. Again Hill found his favorite receiver, Justen, alone in the end zone for the score. Dunne's PAT split the uprights, and the Warriors led 14-0 with 3:44 remaining in the half. McHenry got the ball back in the closing seconds, and as time ran out, Hill and Justen hooked up for a 25-yard pick-up. If not for a lone defender who tripped up Justen, the Warriors would have scored again. WARRIOR FANS -- along with the coaching staff - (Turn to page 18) * i mm §1̂ X \ m sr x '• 4. „ warns u j* P • PUindealcr-Herald Photo by Anthony Oliver Johnsburg's Mark Majercik tries in vain to grab onUTa Mark DuRei pass during Saturday's 14-19 Skyhawk loss to Grayslake. LOOKING AHEAD McHENRY HIGH SCHOOL Today: Volleyball: CL South at West Campus, 4:30 p.m. Thursday: Swimming: CL Central (host) at West Campus, 4:30 p.m. I J O H N S B U R G SCHOOL H I G H Thursday: Volleyball: Wauconda, 4:30 • p.m.