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added a single, runs got at by Chris Juzwlk pinlndealer-Herah FVC Softball McHenry assaults D-C, Central in awesome offensive display There's a new 'Murderer's and knocke^in four. Row' in sports, supplanting the 1927 New York Yankees as the biggest sluggers in the sports •world. . Tlieir name? The McHenry Warrior girls' softball team. Hie Warriors have scored an amazing 64 runs in their last three games, as the locals swept a doubleheader from Crystal Lake Central Saturday, and came back to wallop Dundee- Crown Monday afternoon at West Campus, 24-12. "We're really hitting it, aren't we?" asked McHenry coach Pat Wirtz, who saw his team jump to 6-5 in the Fox Valley Con­ ference, good for fourth place, a game behind third-place Jacobs. "I knew we coula hit this way, it just took awhile to get going," said Wirti A It didn't^take long Monday, when last-place Dundee-Crown le to McHenry and watched ie Warriors score 17 runs in the four innings, hit six homers for the. game, and pound out 21 hits. Leading, the hit parade was first baseperson Gretchen Fuiava, who hit two homers, Rachel Prushinski had four hits, with a homer and three RBI. She also scored five times. Melissa Greve had three hits, including a three-run round- tripper, had four RBI for the game and scored three. Monique Betancourt hit a homer and two singles, and scored four runs. Chris Carlson singled and homered, while Cindy Kinsala and Michelle Strapoli each had two hits. For the third straight couldn't do any wrong. It was increcpble/' A 24-hit Onslaught powered the Warriors, led by Kinsala and Fuiava. Kinsala went 4-fbr-5 with a triple and five RBI, while game, every Warrior hit safely. "We got three touchdowns and a field goal, and they just got two touchdowns and missed both extra points," joked Wirtz. Carlson picked up the win for the Warriors, but didn't really fool the Charger hitters, who collected 15 hits in the game. "It was nice batting prac­ tice," said Wirtz. McHenry 28-12, CL Central 7-9 The Warriors pounded lumps " Lake Central Saturday Fuiava was 4-foiM> with three RBI and four runs scored. Also having big days for the locals were Carlson, with three hits, two RBI and four runs, and. Greve, who was S-for-4 with two doubles, knocking in five and scoring five. , Betancourt, Prushinski, Gaines and Stripoli had two hits each, and Lee Lindquist had what Wirtz called "her best day ever," going 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs. McHenry scored at least four runs in each of the five inning, including six in the second and third, and eight in the fourth, after Central led one, 6-4. - 40 of them - on jnjCryst rday stal Lake in a doubleheader sweep'. "The first one was really a fun one," said Wirtz. "Everybody "In the first game, their big three all got hits, and we were losing 6-0. But after that, we shut down their big guns," Wirtz said, "by shifting our defense. We left nght field open and they kept trying to hit it there, but they couldn't. We really shut them down." Central's hot-hitting trio of Tama Brammer, Amy Erickson and Debby Ettling could manage just a handful of hits the rest of the day, as Carlson, backed by solid defense, stifled the Tigers. Central had 10 hits in the opener, while McHenry's 24 included ninethat went for extra bases. In the nightcap, the Warriors scored nine times in the first innng, and held which tallied five to win 12-9. Carlson again went distance, allowing 11 hits walking six. Again it was the booming McHenry bats which difl the damage. «• Carlson helpedher own caust with three singles, while Betancourt b had an RBI double and two run-scoring sacrifice flies. Gaines went 2-for-4, as did Prushinski, who ripped a triple. Kinsala had a two-run single. Every Warrior hit safely. "We should have won by the 10-runrule," said Wirtz. "We led 12-3 in the fifth, with the winning run on second and one out, but we couldn't score. Then we let them back in in the seventh." Sophomore Strapoli, pressed into varsity duty when Wirtz was left short on personnel, checked in with two hits, in­ cluding a two-run single. "It's too bad Woodstock didn't lose a few last week. They won Monique Betancourt keeps her eye on the ball as she fires to first That would've to nip a Dundee-Crown baserunner. g p Dundee-Crown catcher Cindy Abbott has the ball in her glove, but McHenry's Rachel Prushinski is about to tap dance her way on to home plate to beat the tag, in the Warriors'24- 12 victory over the Chargers Monday afternoon at West Campus. Slimko to fly for Air Force for them this coming By Joe Kusek Plalndealer Herald News Service ALGONQUIN Jacobs High School's Mark Slimko Monday gave a verbal commitment to me Air Force Academy to play basketball" winter Slimko, the Shaw-Free Press Newspaper Group Player of the Year in 1984-85, averaged 24.7 points and 13.2 rebounds a game this season for the Golden Eagles. McHenry fans may well remember Slimko for his 20-foot lean-in jumper at the overtime buzzer which handed the Warriors their third straight one-point loss back in December of 1984. After his stellar year, which saw him surpass former all- state player Tom Schafer of Jacobs as the school's all-time leading scorer, Slimko had whittled his choices down to four schools -- Beloit College, Illinois Benedictine, West Point and the Air Force Academy. However, when he decided he wanted to shot, that ve Division I ball a eft just West Point, and the Air Force in the picture: "The first toughest part was deciding if I wanted to give the military a try," explained Slimko, since both academies moi sen 'ice five arson's graduation. "Then it was which one to go to. I like both places, the players and coaching staffs. But I just SLIMKO-Page 14 New-found lov§ shoots -- and scores I think I'm in love again, and the great thing is: my wife doesn't mind. - Sunday night, I attended the first professional hockey game of my life. Hockey can now officially list me as one of its fans. I'm looked, line and sinker. Hockey was always something that was just ... there, you mow? It didn't bother me, and I didn't bother with it. Bi^ after this experience, I want more. If somebody had asked me if I was a Black Hawk fan prior to my newly-founcL-infatuation with the game, I would have said yes.' If the ^ext question was 'why?' I would have said: Because I don't know the names of any of the other teams, except that most of them have to hear the Canadian National Anthem before a game.' But alas, that period of my life is now over. Sunday's 5-4 Black lawk loss to Minnesota left a bad taste in the mouth, kind of like ilet of puck. I've got to get back to the Stadium, even if it means shelling out additional excessive amounts of money to do so. I gained a wealth of hockey knowledge in my initial ex­ perience with skating's version of bumper cars, but there are still many things I have to figure out. Chris iuzwik I didn't know what to wear to the so maybe it's cold inside the place. An< ame. It's ice, I reasoned, you know what? It is. There were more females at the game than I ever imagined there would be. Beer tastes as good at a hockey game as it does at a baseball game. Hockey is the most individual sport of them all. Could you imagine a baseball team having to play without a shortstop because the dude got penalized? Or what if goaltending was made legal in basketball? Then would there be one guy who does nothing but try to stop the ball from going in the basket? Would basketball then have 6-4 and 4-2 games? Kind of interesting, don't you think? don't know when a one I understand Simple enough. Do hockey players really have such short fuses, or do they play but they don't punch each other out for it. fight just to fight? Football players get hit as hard and as often, Goalies deserve to be the highest-paid of any athlete in the world of sports. Hockey fans are the greatest and most loyal in the World. A little rough around the edges, perhaps, but still as honest and fair as a any you'll find. Hockey games are strangely quiet. You don't get the in­ cessant rambwigs of the public addresser announcer. In other sports, you'll hear the PA guy's voice for every batter, every run, every basket. The quiet of hockey takes some getting used to' V • . I always wondered what people meant when they say, "Yeah, the Stadium was really rocking tonight." You will never ^car a more inspired version of the National Anthem than the one rendered at a Hawks' game. The crowd of 17,000-plus roars from '0, say' to 'brave.' It's chilling. Is th&re a really sound reason why the Black Hawks aren't It's hard to totally comprehend the mystique of something levision in Chicago? - until you actually try doing it. To make hockey an integral part on televisic Why do Hawk fans so abuse Dino Ciccarelli? I always wondered how someone gets to be a 'goon.' Minnesota's Willi Plett showed me the easiest way Sunday, simply by acting ... 'goonish.' Why is the organization Called the 'National Hockey e?' With teams in Canada as well as the U.S., shouldn't it 'International Hockey League?' until you actually try doing it. To make hockey an integral part of my life, I should actually put tape on my stick, throw on a helmet, don some skates, and give it a shot. But there is a problem. If it was basketball, I at least would be able to run and try to shoot. Or baseball. Heck, I could pick up a bat. Football? I'U throw the thing, or kick it. No problem. But hockey has so many aspects to it. I've never played hockey. I've never ice skated. I ve never really been in a fight. And aside from being grounded once, I've never been penalized either. ?. Guess'this relationship will have to be consummated from afar. Plaindeaier-Herald News Service photo Jacobs' Mark Slimko will be soaring for Air Force next season. Dust leads stefllar Sky hawk effort ALGONQUIN -- Paced by a stirring performance from unior Bill Dust, Johnsburg's ys' track team finished a solid fifth at the 12-team Jacobs In­ vitational Saturday. Dust won the 110 high hurdles with a 16.3 clocking, and finished third in the triple jump with a 39'2" leap. Both were career bests for Dust. "He just did an outstanding job," s said Skyhawk coach Randy Ofterembt of Dust. "He. set his mind to it, and just went out and hada super day." Led by^Dust, Johnsburg picked , up 581 points to finish behind winning Lisle, Wheaton St. Francis, Yorkville and the host school. More importantly Boys' Track though, the Skyhawks finished- ahead of four fellow Northwest Suburban Conference members, Lake Zurich, Grayslake, Wauconda and Marian Central. "]Ve hada real nice day," said Oberembt. "We're very happy with a fifth place." « Dust topped rival hurdler John Lui of Grayslake, who finished third in 16.5. Lui has been clocked in 16.0 earlier this season. "Billy just made up his riiind to win. He hadn't been cutting his times down as much, but he was determined to do well, and he did." Oberembt said. JOHNSBURG--Page 14 *