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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 8 May 1985, p. 38

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McHenry's Pat Dunne, an all- Fox Valley Conference football player for the Warriors, has informed Millikin University coach Carl Poelker that he will enroll at the Decatur school this fall. Dunne, a 6-foot-2, 175-lb. tailback and middle linebacker, averaged 6.7 yards per carry and 18.4 yards per reception out of the backfield, in addition to recording 84 tackles for coach Joe Schlender's 5-4 McHenry squad. Dunne lettered twice in football and basketball and is a three-year letterman in baseball. He also has been all- conference in basketball and baseball. He was the most valuable baskefBMl -player for McHenry in 1983-84, and a team captain. An honor student, Dunne plans to major in computer science at Millikin. He is the son of John and Elaine Dunne, 5210 Winding Creek Dr., McHenry. "Obviously Pat is a versatile Chris Juzwik One, two, three: It's only a test Questions, questions, questions. I wonder about a lot of things, and I'm certain I'm not alone. Take our world, for example. What a totally bonkers place! Our President's in Germany, our hookey team is in Alberta, and Alberta's in Canada instead of our hair. To help you keep up with the news of the day, I have prepared a multiple choice quiz. Do your best. No cheating permitted. Knowledge of all the realms of the world is necessary. Ready? l). What is the longest-standing joke in sports today? a). George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin. b). The United States Football League. c). Professional wrestling. . d). All of the above. 'A' is wrong because George and Billy aren't funny anymore, which also negates 'D.' Professional wrestling has been around a lot longer, but it doesn't take itself seriously, unlike the USFL. The correct answer is'B.' •> 2). Oklahoma University AU-American Wayman Tisdale announced Saturday that he will enter the draft a year early. He also said he would like to be a part of one of two teams, above all others. Name either one of those two groups. a). The Committee to Re-Elect Harold Washington. b). The Chicago Symphony. c.) The L.A. Lakers. d.) The Mickey Mouse Club. „ j If you answered 'C,' you're right on the nose. Tisdale isn't accomplished enough to play in 'B,' and undoubtedly, isn't desperate enough to be a part of 'A.' Steinbrenner just nabbed the last open slot in 'D.' 3). There is an ugly rumor circulating in the basketball world regarding two big names. What is it? a). Georgetown coach John Thompson will become coach of the Seattle Supersonics if Seattle wins the right to draft first, thereby selecting Georgetown center Patrick Ewing. b). Ewing will become player-coach of the Indiana Pacers if the Pacers win the right to draft him. c). The Chicago Bulls will trade Quintin Dailev to Georgetown for the right to have Ewing sell Sno=fcones at Bulls' games. d). That once Ewing establishes himself in the NBA, he and Philadelphia brute Moses Malone will become friends and vow never to push each other around in the lane. If you answered 'A,' you're steaming. 'B' is wrong. The deal is for Ewing to become player-owner. 'C' can't be true because Dailey would simply fit in too well at Georgetown. We can only ~ "d wrong. There are people who would hope 'D' is dead wrong. There are megabucks to see those two square i people off. Any Anywhere. pay 4). There are two people who have made a name for them­ selves by goofing up and acting silly, causing laughter and a lot of head-scratching wherever they go, and just generally con­ fusing the hapless public. What are the first names of this unlikely - yet wacky - pair? a). Gary and Cathy. b). George and Billy. c). Stan and Ollie. d). Some of the above. The correct response is 'D.' We always knew when Laurel and Hardy were just kidding. < * 5). Let's say the United States Football League has a yacht. The USFL's top officials invite a group of luminaries to go for a ride. Who would get on first? a)'. Hulk Hogan. b). Lenny and Squiggy. c). Any fan who has sat through at least two entire USFL games. d). None of the above. If you answered 'D,' you're too sharp for this quiz. 'D' is in­ deed the correct to this trick question. Why is it a trick? Because all of them are tpo smart to board a sinking ship. \ 6). What is the easiest to get? a). A fat lip playing hockey. b). A box seat at Wrigley Field on a Saturday or Sunday. c). Mono on "The Love Boat'. d). A hernia lifting Orson Welles. e). Bored by Steve Stone. Holy Cow! 'B' is right, provided the Cubs are on the road. J' If you answered all six correctly, you qualify as a current events whiz, which, along with 40 cents will still only get you a Snickers6 bar. If you hit 3-5 on the head, good job, 1-2 is pretty poor. If you got all of them wrong, you have won the right to run for the commissioner of the USFL, or as George Steinbrenner's press secretary and live-in excuse-maker. Yes, a terrible fate indeed. h brings us to another question: Which one would be the job? Tnat's the toughest one of all. 1 athlete," Poelker said, "and we're confident that he will 'fit into our program nicely. He is a talented running back. We'll take an early look at him as a tailback, but he could.. also become a fine tight end. He has a lot of potential. We're pleased that he will be attending Millikin." Millikin had an 8-1 record last season and was ranked 15th in the final NCAA Division III national ratings. McHenry ties Leyden 'What if they held a quadrangular tennis meet, and no one snowed up?' That question might have come up recently when McHenry tennis coach Gary Gray tried to reschedule the r a i n e d - o u t M c H e n r y Quadrangular. Of the four teams, only the hosts and Leyden could get together on a date, so Gray and the Warriors entertained Leyden in what is undoubtedly the strangest McHenry Quad ever held. The Warriors and the Eagles faced off in a match which en­ ded, fittingly enough, in a 4-4 tie. The No. 4 doubles match proved to be the decisive factor. A win for Leyden would have given the Eagles a 5-3 meet triumph, while a McHenry victory would have allowed the Warriors to end the match in a tie. Tennis McHenry freshmen Kai An­ derson and Eric Salman responded with a 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Mark Sikierski and Chris Cali to end the meet at 4-4. "They had all the pressure," Gray said of Anderson and Salman. "It was the deciding match, and they came throught." Also coming through was junior Tom Wrona, who won at second singles despite being ill. Wrona claimed a hard-fought 4- 6, 6-4, 6-4 decision over Jeff Jones for McHenry's only singles victory. Senior co-captains Gary Strom and Randy Weidemann teamed up to topple Tom Mohrhusen and Brian McKay, 2- 6, 6r 1, 6-2. The McHenry pair have performed well in their two matches together. "Leyden's No. 1 doubles team was a champion ata tournament last Saturday," noted Gray. Sophomore Ed Miller and junior Ron Royce won at No. 3 doubles, 6-4, 6-1 over Brad Sch- mitt and Kevin Stevenson. "An impressive victory in their first varsity match," said Gray. Sophomore Scott Smith was promoted to No. 1 singles for the day as Strom moved to doubles, ana Smith fell to Mark Hopkins, 6-2, 7-5. Junior Bill Etheridge lost to Andy Szekely 6-3, 6-3 at No. 3, while Steve Smith was trumped by Shawn Hopkins at No. 4, 6-1, 6-0. At second doubles, Tim Gray and Tom Wynveen lost to Scott Rizzo and Joe Zumpano, 6-1, 6-4. "Tim Gray is continuing to improve in doubles play," said Gray. CL Central 4, McHenry 1 Thursday afternoon at West Campus, the Warriors finished up the regular season, getting a victory at No. 3 singles, with Wrona grabbing a 7-5, 7-5 win over Steve Bychowski. However, Wrona's teammates didn't follow suit, as McHenry dropped a 4-1 Fox Valley Con­ ference match. Strom was dumped 6-2, 6-3 at No. 1 by Steve MacAulay, while Scott Smith was handed a 3-6,6- 4, 6-1 defeat by Tony Cherone. Weidmann and Wynveen lost 6-1, 6-1 at No. 1, while Gray and Etheridge suffered the same fate at No. 2. Plaindealer-Herald Newsservice photo by Jerome J. Edler Mary Schultz of McHenry takes a look around the track during the two-mile run event Friday. 'Together' Warriors slidg into third in Fox Valley CARY - On a roll. That's* what McHenry's baseball Warriors are on at this moment. Warrior coach Brian - Wilson only hopes it continues. "We're playing better now than we were earlier in the season," said Wilson after his team whipped Cary-Grove 17-6 Monday afternoon, the victory coming on the heels of an 8-4 win over Dundee-Crown last Thursday. "We're starting to put it all together. Earlier, we would hit but not get the pitching, or pitch well but not get the fielding. It's starting to balance out now," Wilson said. McHenry will host Mundelein in a non-conference tilt at Mc- Cracken Field Wednesday, before entertaining Fox Valley Conference front-runner Woodstock Friday. McHenry is now 6-6 in the FVC, in sole possession of third place. The Warriors are 10-7 overall. "We want to beat 'em all," said Wilson when asked if his team sought any revenge against the Bltffe Streaks, who have blasted McHenry twice this year. "We want to finish strong in the conference and get ready for the state tournament. We're starting to play closer to our potential now." • Against Cary, the Warriors jumped all over Trojan starter Tom Van Allen, scoring 10 runs off the junior in five innings. Van Allen and two relief pitchers couldn't stop the MCHS onslaught, as the locals collected 16 hits, including three L POX VALLEY CONFERENCE ' x Baseball Standings \ Conf. All Team x W L W L Woodstock 10 2 13 3 CL Central 10 3 11 6 McHenry 6 6 10 7 Dundee-Crown 6 7 8 8 CL South 5 7 7 10 Jacobs 4 8 5 9 Cary-Grove 2 10 3 12 Wednesday's Games Mundelein at McHenry, 4 p.m. Woodstock at CL Central, 4 p.m. Cary-Grove at CL South, 4 p.m. t Budreck laced a homer and two other hits, collecting four RBI. Sophomore Merrick Steiffer ripped a two-run homer, and senior Brad Snyder blasted a three-run shot for McHenry. Senior Pat Dunne had two hits and knocked in a run. Jeff Schuster collected his second win of the year for the Warriors. The senior allowed six runs in five innings on six hits. He fanned two and walked five. "Not one of his better outings," said Wilson of Schuster. "He was a little wild." Steve Katzenberger came in the sixth to mop up, stifling the Trojans on one hit. McHenry 8, Dundee-Crown 4 The Warriors capped a two- game sweep over D-C with an 8-4 victory Thursday, after edging the Chargers 4-3 on Tuesday. Sophomore Steiffer picked up the win in relief of fellow classmate Matt Roy. Kat­ zenberger picked up a save with three nifty innings of work. Roy lasted just two-thirds of an inning before Steiffer came on with D-C ahead 2-0. He squelched that scoring op­ portunity, and held the Chargers in check, allowing just one^run in the third inning. Katzenberger came on in the fifth, and stymied D-C on three hits, fanning four. The game was tied at 4-4 in the sixth, when the Warriors rallied for four runs and the victory. Katzenberger started things off w with a single, and went to second on a base hit by Snyder. Schuster reached on an error, and senior co-captain Steve Cunningham then laced a two- out double scoring Katzenberger and Snyder, giving the Warriors a 6 6-4 lead. Bob Nolan followed with a single to plate Schuster and Cunningham to boost the Warrior lead, and Katzenberger held off D-C in the seventh to gamer the save. Cunningham had two of the Warriors' seven hits. "Steiffer did pretty well," said Wilson. "He hadn't thrown in a couple weeks, so I didn't4cnow what t to expect. Katzenberger shut them down pretty well, too." MCC nine finish season homers, a triple, two doubles and seven walks. "We really hammered him around," said Wilson of Van Allen. Leading the way was senior co-captain Craig Hill, who was 4- for-4 with two RBI. Senior Tom McHenry's Chapman a winner at NISRA track WOODSTOCK - The Annual Woodstock Jaycee Tra^k Meet was the event of the day for 117 mentally handicapped youth and adults in the McHenry County area. The athletes ranged in age from seven to 62, ana came from McHenry, Crystal Lake, Cary, Woodstock, Lake Zurich, Barrington and Wauconda. The meet was sponsored in cooperation with Northern Illinois Special Recreation. Association (NISRA) and was held at Woodstock High School. McHenry area competitors who finished in the top three in their respective events in­ cluded: Jim Chapman of McHenry, who took first in the 50-yard dash, for men 20-29 years old, and also a second in the long jump. Bill Damiani of McHenry, who grabbed a second in the softball thrown for males 20-29. Barb Santangelo, third in the 40 and over for the softbali throw. Bob Seeber of Wonder Lake, a third in the 100 yard dash, males 20-29. The season is over for McHenry County College's baseball team, but the Scots didn't go without a fight. MCC met the nation's fifth- best offense Saturday, and lost a 14-10 slugfest to Kishwaukee Valley in state tourney action. In Friday's post-season opener, Rock Valley beat MCC, 11-8. "We had them beat," MCC Coach Bill Ottley said of Kish­ waukee, "but when you walk 11 and make nine errors; you can't win theiaailgame." MCC enjoyed leads of 6-2 and 10-6 befou^Kishwaukee rattled Scot reliever Jim Krausen for two-run rallies in the sixth and seventh to snap a 10-all tie. "Krausen was just too tired from the day before. He went seven innings Friday," Ottley, said. Krausen relieved starter Jeff Kruse Saturday. - Third baseman Kurt Ljunggren replaced Krausen and held Kishwaukee scoreless, but MCC's bats fell silent. "But we had them down twice. I still felt we had a pretty respectable showing," Ottley said. MCC (11-8) poured across six runs-all with two out-in the third for a 6-2 lead. The big blow was Mitch Dowdy's bases- loaded triple. Kishwaukee forged a 6-all tie in the fourth, but MCC came 'back with a four-spot in the fifth \for its last lead, 10-6. Kish­ waukee re-tied the score in its iialf. Home runs by Todd Howell, Scott Zelke and Ljunggren weren't enough Friday as Rock Valley won, 11-8. In the first inning, Howell ripped a 3-2 pitch over the right- field fence to score Kris Teuber for a 2-0 lead. - That held up until the second when Rock Valley scored seven runs. Starting pitcher Paul Zaguler was replaced by Jim Krausen, who finished up. MCC scored three runs in the fifth and another in the sixth on Zelke's homer. SECTIONS • I'AGE 16- PLAINDEALER-HERALD, WEDNESDAY. MAY 8.1985 Sports

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