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JPHmBG! Steiffer was 3-for-4 In the con­ test, including a homer and three RBI. The sophomore finished the season as the Warriors' leading hitter at .355 Schuster knocked in two runs in the game, while Schultz was 2-for-5. The Warriors collected 11 hits in the game to Jacobs' eight. "We just nev^r really put it all together this year. We struggled early with our hitting, and then we'd come back and start hitting, but wouldn't get any pitching/ That hurt us a lot," said Wilson. ' Dunne, the Wiarriors' top pit­ cher on the year, had hand surgery Tuesday and vfras unavailable for duty. "That, was tough on us, too," said Wilson. "He's had a hot ba£of late, and not having him caused us to change our pitching rotation. But that's just the way our sea$op went. We didn't make our o*pn breaks. We came back again 6nQ again against Jacobs, but we couldn't get ahead. "This was a good group of kids. They- really wanted to pi Ay baseball. It's just unfortunate things had to happen to us they way they did. A lot of little things detracted from our year." One of the worse were snutout Rockford ^SKmniM *. PAGE 18 - PLA1ISDEALER-HERALP, FRIDAY, MAY 24,1985 Sports Warriors shocked McHenry nine see rally fall short, season end at hands of Golden Eagles r pi swallow, and although McHenry's Warriors didn't want any part of that tablet, they got it shoved down their throats anyway. The Warriors had their season ended rather suddenly Tuesday at McCracken Field in the first round of the IHSA Jacobs Baseball Regional Tournament by Jacobs, 7-6. A combination of in­ juries, miscueis and downright dumb luck spelled t-h-e-e-n-d for McHenry. - ^ • . "It's a little disheartening, sure," said McHenry coach Brian 1 Wilson. "The kids had a good year, we had a nice club. But we finished 14-11, and that's a lot of games to lose." Senior co-captain CraigHill suf­ fered the lost for the Warriors, getting toched for five hits and six runs in 2% innings. It was Hill's first start of the season. "It was unfortunate that things went this way. We thought we'd mix it up a little against Jacobs. They're a good hitting team, and have been playing well o late. They had hit Jeff Schuster earlier this season, and Pat Dunne couldn't pitch, so I thought we'd mix it up and throw Craig, who's a lefty and doesn't throw all that hard," explained Wilson. The Golden Eagles got to Hill right off, scoring three runs in the first, and three more in the third. Sophomore Marty QUaptz came on in the third for McHenry, and did a solid relief job. McHenry came back, pecking away at the JHS lead with two in the second inning, and one in each of the third, fourth, fifth and seventh frames. Regional Baseball In the top of the seventh (Jacobs was considered the home team), sophomore Merrick Steiffer col­ lected his third hit of the day, a single, to lead off. Quantz walked, and Mike Weber pinch-ran for the sophomore. Brad Snyder attemp­ ted to bunt the runners over, but Steiffer was pegged out at third for the first out. Schuster then singled, his se­ cond hit of the day, to cut the Eagle lead to 7-6. On the play, however, Snyder was thrown out at third on a close play for out two. Mike Schultz then grounded to the pitcher to end the game, and the season for McHenry.. • Plalndealer Herald photo by Anthony Oliver McHenry senior Craig Hill suffered the loss from regional competition by Jacobs, 7-6. Tuesday when the Warriors were eliminated McHenry finished at 14-11-1 on the year. He's at it again George Hauser set to try English Channel swim one more time By Chris Juzwik PUlndMtar-Horald qnrts editor One of the great movies of all time was Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life" which starred Jimmy Stewart. The inimitable Stewart played a man who didn't appreciate life and wished he wasn't around to live it. When he did indeed pass on, he was taken under the wing of an angel, who showed him how truly great life was. 'Ah,' said Jimmy's character later, 'I understand.' George Hauser, unlike the Stewart character, knows how great life , can be, and indeed how great it is. Nobody will have to show George Hauser what he's in Dover, England, to Cap Grisnez, France. He was in the water for nine hours before high winds and cold weather forced him out somewhere in the Atlantic. Hauser, who lives outside of Boston, Mass., is now traveling around the country promoting the swim, and that included a stop in McHenry last week. "I'm ready to go," said the effervescent Hauser. "I learned a lot from last time, and I'm not as tense this time around. We're pretty much on schedule as far as time goes. "I think I overtrained last time. This time I've learned to be more relaxed and have fun with it. I'm much more comfortable this time." , Hauser will reverse his missing. He hasn't missed much. The McHenry native, now 36 years old, is in the process of training for another crack at swimming the English Channel, a feat hp didn't quite accomplish during his last attempt in August. Hauser, who is ah epileptic, is trying to erase the myth and stigma that surround the condition, which he believes was triggered in him during a little League baseball game at McHenry's VFW, where he was hit by a thrown baseball. Hauser has been seizure- free for six years, thanks to the drug Tegretol, which is made by Geigy Phar­ maceuticals, the company which sponsors Hauser's swim. He is scheduled to take to the water in late August. Last August, Hauser was slated to go from Shakespeare Beach course from last year, starting at Cap Grisnez this time. Will it be any easier this way? "I doubt it," Hauser laughed. "It's not real easy any way you try it. You've still got to do the swimming for 13 or 14 hours. "I just hdpe that I finish near a hotel, so I can set right out of the water, walk in and take a shower." * His coaches, Charles Slivia and Don Meggerlee, have also been better able to help Hauser in his second training stint. "They've been teaching me more this time, and that's probably because having been through it, I can un­ derstand it better. I'm going to breathe from the left this tir instead of from the right. All winter I've been working to improve my stroke. It's hard to believe I went for nine hours with that type of technique. "Looking at the films of the swim now, I said, 'I swam for nine hours like that?' it doesn't bother me that I didn't finish. Sure, I would have 1 liked to, but it's not the end of the world." One change Hauser hks made i is his swimming cap, which had cut off his cir­ culation - and almost his head - in the last jaunt. , "I had scars all over the back of my neck last time. The cap really cut me. This one's cut farther down on my brain stem, and it's much more comfortable. It keeps my head warm, and I never feel the cold at all. "Plus it's pink and blue. I really stand out in the water," he laughed. Hauser's goggles fogged terribly on his 1984 swim, further complicating an already difficult task. "We haven't figured out what to do about the goggles. I still haven't found any luke. But I'm not going to worry N about it. If I have to, I'll go without goggles. I couldn't see last time anyway." In addition to having dif­ ferent physical aspects to the 1985 swim, Hauser's mental and emotional approach have changed drastically as well. "Last year, it was really hard. Most of the people who' swim the Channel have some competitive swimming background. I have none. So I was out of place somewhat. "But now, I'm more relaxed because I know that I'm worthy of trying to swim the English Channel. That I don't have any shimming background is irrelevant now. It's not what I can't do, * but what I can - and I'm not singing the blues about what I can't." Hauser has gained enough notoriety from his first swim to be popular on the junior high and high school lecture circuit. What can a 36-year- old epileptic long-distance swimmer tell a young audience? "You know, society has made kids so darn result- oriented. Everybody has their goals. But it shouldn't be the beginning , the middle or the end that7s the important thing. Just go ahead and do it. HAUSER Page 16 Johnsburg eliminated -; '• " * i by Boylan ROCKFORD - There are ways to go, and then, there are ways to go. Johnsburg High' School's baseball team had its season ended Tuesday afternoon in thie Rockford West Regional. That's not so bad. Plalndealer-Herald photo by Chris Juzwik Let's talk... Johnsburg coach Jim Meyers: "It's been a very frustrating year tor the players. It's been a frustrating year for all of us." Johnsburg was no-hit and eliminated from regional play, 12-0 by Rockford Boylan Tuesday. ' The worst part? Johnsburg didn't get a single hit in thp slaughter-shortened five-inning contest. The Skyhawks committed eight errors in. the fourth agcl firm innings, leading to a host of Boylan runs. Regional Baseball "We did well for a few in­ nings," s said JHS coach Jim Meyers. "But then we made all those errors, and the roof just caved in on ub. They (the Titans) only had two earned runs the whole game." The loss ended the Skyhawks* season at 3-16 overall.*John: 8burg was 2-12 in the Northwest Suburban Conference. "It was a poor display, real poor," said Meyers, "we did drive a few balls, but nothing feU in for us at all." Jason Perry was the starter and loser for the young, inex­ perienced Skyhawks, wno have had, by all standards, a rough season. Pernr was replaced In relief by Billy Wade, and then Dan Stefka. "Sometimes we pressed too hard," Meyers reflected, "awt l other times we relaxed -fnidf ' made mistakes. We didn't realtor make things happen this year.7* Boylan collected just eigfet hits in the game, but com"' with JHS miscues, it "ItTs been a the for all of n