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fage IB - PLAIN DEALER-HER ALD. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 15,1985 Sports McHenry's Love wins title for MCC grapplers widoiw ii«i>kiNtwswrvict technical fall (when one ' < n r a p r P n v i r _ w r e s t l e r l e a d s b y 1 5 P 0 ^ o r U GAR G R O V E The more end of a period) over McHenry County College wrist's Otis Wilson. In the wrestling team suffered from a finals, Burmeister needed just lack of numbers at the Skyway 50 seconds to stick Oakton's Pete . Conference Tournament Schneider. Saturday afternoon, but the recorded two pins in his Wte still managed to place assault of the 142-pound division. ^ tourney held at He stuck College of Lake •KrS!18? *1 County's Jeff Nieze in 5:10 of the JOt the four MCC wrestlers in semifinal match and then stuck the tournament, three came Waubonsee's Dave Parker in away individual championships 2 05 and will advance to this ' * , .. weekend's sectional tour- Mike s championship was a wflmpnt real pleasant surpnse," Patton Jwo former Woodstock High mu^ c^fpccted School grapplers were cham- an^ Dave to win, but plons for MCC. Rich Drabek Mike wrestled outstanding all garnered the 177-pound title day. 8^ he in the while Dave Burmeister claimed senus (Nieze) was a three-time the heavyweight crown. state qualifier in high school, ^ McHenry's Mike Love was the fn(* Mike never once qualified 142-pound champion while ** was a 8°°d win for former Warrior Rick Connors him placed fourth at 134. The Scots' next action will be , *'That was the best they've Saturday's sectional (also at • wrestled all year," MCC Coach Waubonsee College) for the Steve Patton said. "I'm glad to right to advance to the National see they're peaking at the right Junior College Athletic tinbe of the season." 1 Association National Tour- Prabek opened with a 7-4 in nament at the College of the' semifinals over Rick Davies DuPage in Glen Ellyn the qf Waubonsee. The former Blue following week. Streak then stuck Dave "I think all three have a Peterson, College of Lake legitimate shot at making County, in the first period of the nationals-if they wrestle well," title match. Patton said, adding the same Burmeister dominated his two teams that were in the con- opponents en route to the title, ference tourney plus a few He opened with a 20-5 superior others will be at the sectional. 1 LOOKING AHEAD McHENRY HIGH SCHOOL Friday: . WRESTLING: atBarringtonSectional, 6p.m. 1. BASKETBALL: Dundee-Crown, 6 p.m. ' Saturday: WRESTLING: at Barrington Sectional. . SWIMMING: at Barrington Regional. BASKETBALL: at Waukegan West, 6 p.m. JOHNSBURG HIGH SCHOOL ! Friday: WRESTLING: at Barrington Sectional, 6 p.m. BASKETBALL: LakeZurich, 6 p.m. Saturday: r ^ * WRESTLING: at Barrington Sectional ~ GIRLS BASKETBALL: Marengo, 1 p.m. - BASKETBALL: Jacobs,6p.m. MCC women tripped PtaMMlar-HcraM N«w« Smrvtcc CRYSTAL LAKE-McHenry County College's women's basketball team blew a 12-point lead with 10 minutes to play and eventually succumbed to Sauk Valley College's Lady Warriors, 60-67, in the MCC gym Saturday afternoon. "I don't know. I guess we just collapsed," MCC Coach Bob Edwards said. "We stopped playing, and we started com­ mitting dumb fouls-itsy bitsy 'fouls. •; Sauk Valley took advantage of •MCC'8 foul problems and made & of 26 free tosses in the game awhile the Scots connected on just -ll-of-20. But until that point, the hosts ,*were playing good basketball. -Ulidway through the second half *-SL" •MCC men win ugly JHS to host regional, face McHenry girls By Chris Juzwik rr*i-ni nwMyiiimwiif McHenry and Johnsburg high schools will meet on the basket- ball court in regional play again. Before you start to seek out ticket information, it's not the boys teams, which met for the first time ever in regional play last year, which will face each other. It's the girls. The lady cagers from the two area schools have already faced each other once this season in a game won easily by the strong Skyhawks. The McHenry girls are winless on the season. THE PAIRINGS for the IHSA (Illinois High School Association) girls' regional tournaments were announced this week. Johnsburg will play host to one of the 56 Class AA regional events this time around, as McHenry, Crystal Lake Central and Woodstock will join the Skyhawks in the two-day tournament. The Skyhawks and the Warriors will tip things off at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 11, with the Central-Woodstock battle to follow. CLC currently sits atop the Fox Valley Conference standings, while Woodstock is in fourth place. Johnsburg is 12-4 overall, the Warriors are 0-11. The survivors of the two first- round duels will face each other Thursday night, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. J O H N S B U R G p l a y e d Woodstock In the Skyhawks' open­ ing game of the season, won by the Blue Streaks 49-42. The Skyhawks have won 11 of their last 13 ballgames. Woodstock is 7-8 overall. TRY r Platndealer-Herald photo by Chris Juzwik WRESTLERS (Continued from page 20) He could make it. Dumelle has the first and second guys in the state in his class (Kaifesh and Grant's Dave Rowden) but he may be third. It's hard to say at this point," Rankin noted. The four Skyhawks have been practicing at Crystal Lake South this week with some of the other area sectional qualifiers, and Roberts said that has been a bonus for JHS as well. "We haven't had three better days of practice," he said. "We've really gotten a lot out of it. Bentz has been wrestling Carnell all week." Rankin said he had planned on bringing his troop of regional- survivors to South, but with only Mann qualifying, Rankin had thought it more beneficial for the junior to work out with his team­ mates. Mann sports a 23-6 season record. "IT'S A great thing to get to know the guys better, and it's real healthy for camaraderie. Wrestl­ ing has a high degree of camaraderie, more than most sports," Rankin said. "I'm very excited about this weekend," Roberts said. "Predic­ ting is near impossible right now, but the bottom line is if the kids wrestle the weekend of their lives, they can all go to state, if not, they won't. It's as simple as that. "All of our wrestlers have the capability. I do think that all four should get beyond the first round. "One thing's for sure -- we'll be ready." If these five area grapplers want to move on, they had better be. Or else they'll have to park it. I ' they had fouled out SV's 6-foot-3 center and led by seven points at the 12:10 mark. The Scots upped that lead to a dozen points with just less than 10 minutes remaining when the proverbial roof fell in. Sauk Valley tied the score with 6:41 to play and went on a scoring tear that left them with a 69-60 lead with about 1:30 to play. "I don't mind losing to a team that's better than us. That's the way the game was meant to be played. What bothers me is losing to a team which we should have easily defeated," Edwards said. Dianne Pilgard paced the Scots with 20 points while Sue Hoppman added 14, Kecia Knudsen 12 and Michelle Zimmerman 10/ Wright at EIU CHARLESTON - Brian Wright of McHenry is a member of the men's track team at Eastern Illinois University, the school's sports information office has an­ nounced. Wright, a freshman, is a distance runner for the Pan­ thers thinclads. He ran track and cross-country for McHenry High School, from where he graduated in 1984. We rent cross-country ski equipment so you can get the teel of it before you buy. Our rental rates are reasonable... so come try. T IT'S TIME FOR A TUNE-UP and we'll give your skis the best we've got. DOWNHILL SERVICES • HOT WAXING • SHARPENING • ADJUSTING ICESKATE SHARPENING ALSO AVAILABLE! ALL DOWNHILLCIf |C dO % (WHILESUPPLYLASTS)^f l l^^W / U OFF Your Family Sports Center McHenry Is • Favorite SPORJS^ENTER "~McHENRY.IL Brian Wright -Herald News Service : CRYSTAL LAKE-If beauty : counted in winning basketball games, then McHenry County - College's men's team might hit •: have chalked up a 'W' Saturday I- afternoon. Fortunately for the Scots, •.'however, the only thing that •' counts is the scoreboard as MCC humbled Sauk Valley, 90-82, in a v non-conference tilt. I' "We're always happy to win, ; - but that wasn't the prettiest one » in the world, was it?" MCC { Coach Mike Capacico said. "Our • problem stemmed from not • shooting very well. We did not take good shots." "One thing I did like was our fast break. We haven't run the fast break like that in our last four or five games and it showed because we've lost a few of those," Capaccio said. "But our kids are tired. Some teams come in with eight, nine and 10 players and we go with six. That's all we have and that's what we have to go with." Newman and Bruce led the balanced Scots' attack with 22 points each while Russelberg added 17, Erksen 15 and Pete Dawson, who capped the game with a reverse jam, tossed in 12. JOHNSBURG (Continued frontpage 20) won't be the first. We just don't want him to go crazy on us and get 35 points. There are other players for them who can get the job done, too." BECK ' SAID Slimko is un­ doubtedly the best offensive player the Skyhawks have seen all season. "He can hit from outside, he can bring the ball up on you, or take you down low. Our kids have played against him in a summer league, so they've had a taste of him." Beck will most likely have use of season, with the return of junior Mike Toussaint from an arm in­ jury. "We don't know for sure," Beck noted Wednesday night. That would really be kinda nice. "We like to go out with a couple wins, being at home and all," Beck said. 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