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Putting McHenry On The Racing Map Don Prazak Repeats -- As 12-Inch Batting Champion With .651 t If Bill Scott of McHenry (above) maneuvers his \o. 44 Lola T-:i28 Formula Super 'V' car around a slower vehicle during Sunday's 1977 Formula Sports Car Club of America Invitational at Elkhart Lake, Wis. At left. Scott, right background, pursues car No. :i2, driven by Robert Lybarger, also of McHenry. STAFF PHOTOS BY WAYNE GAYLORD Bill Scott of McHenry cap­ tured first place in the Formula Super 'V' class competition last Sunday during the 1977 For­ mula Sports Car Club of America Invitational road race championships at Elkhart Lake, Wis. Besides winning tijs class, Scott finished sixth overall in the thirty-two car field with an average speed of exactly 100 mph. He competed in a Lola T- 328. McHenry driver, Robert Lybarger, competed in the race. Lybarger placed seventh overall and fourth in his class. He competed in the Formula 'B' class, racing a Lola T-460. Besides Scott, another The Road America course is four miles long, which winds through the countryside in Elkhart Lake. The races feature hairpin turns, and require drivers to turn in both directions, unlike oval races which require a driver to turn only in only one direction. Sports Calendar Fall sports at McHenry high school include boys football, cross country, and golf, and girls volleyball, field hockey, and tennis. Fall sports at Marian Central high school include boys football, golf and cross country, and girls tennis and volleyball. Friday, Sept. 9 McHENRY Football: home to Rockford Boylan, sophs 6 p.m. start and varsity 8 p.m. start. MARIAN Golf: at Ida Crown, 4:30 p.m. start. .Saturday. Sept. 10 McHENRY X-Country: at Maine West Invitational tournament, starting time unknown. Football: freshman 'A' & 'B' teams at Rockford Boylan, 9 a.m. start. MARIAN Football: home to Harvard, sophs noon start and varsity 2 p.m. start. Monday, Sept. 12 McHENRY Football: at Rockford Boylan, junior varsity and sophomore 'B', 4:30 p.m. start. Golf: home to Elgin Larkin and Prospect, 4 p.m. start. Tennis: home to Wauconda, 4:30 p.m. start. MARIAN Tennis: home to Cary-Grove, 4:15 p.m. start. Football: at Harvard, freshman team, 5 p.m. start. Tuesday, Sept. 13 McHENRY X-Country: home to Dundee and Lake Zurich, 4:30 p.m. start. Volleyball: at Cary-Grove, 4:30 p.m. start. MARIAN X-Country: at Ida Crown, 4:30 p.m. start. Wednesday, Sept. 14 McHENRY Field Hockey: home to Woodstock, 4:30 p.m. start. Tennis: home to Larkin, 4:30 p.m. start. MARIAN Volleyball: at Woodstock, starting time unknown. Thursday, Sept. 15 % McHENRY Golf: home to Grayslake, 4 p.m. start. MARIAN Football: freshman feam home to Marengo, 4:30 p.m. start. Golf: at Harvard, 3:30 p.m. start. Volleyball: at Immaculate Conception, 5:30 p.m. start. 'Almost'... Still Counts 1 Stroke ... ...as Ed Buss finds out the hard way as his putt on the twelfth hole "almost" drops during the McHenry Country club tournament. Buss, a perennial con­ tender for the title, finished second this year, losing to Art Jac^tson by four strokes. Buss recorded a 72-hole score of 302, and finished with a flurry in the final round last Sunday, firing a one-over-par 72. STAFF PHOTOS BY WAYNE GAYLORD Auto Service Tips * More and more, automobile owners are trying the do-it- yourself routine -- changing oil, filters, etc. You can save money -- but you can injure yourself if caution is not exercised. Always wear protective covering for hands and arms when working around a hot engine, such as changing oil filters or spark plugs. Never use gasoline for any cleonmg^purpose. If anyone questions St. Regis winning the twelve inch championship they only have to glance at the top twenty batters. Numbers one and two batters belong to the St. Regis champs with Don Prazak again taking the batting title. Prazak hit at a .651 clip, with 41 hits in 6$ at bats. Teammate Irish DeCicco was next at .627. Jim Freres from Indian Manor sneaked into the number three spot with a .614 average, and John Smith, O'Brewery, was number four at .607. Irish DeCicco tied with Tom Les of Old Bridge for most hits 47, while the Old Bridge's Tim Althoff and Greg Freund tied with 41 RBI's to lead the league into that category. Three Old Bridge players were tops in runs scored. Ron Top Twenty Based On 40 or More at Bats NAME AB H AVER Don Prazak 63 41 .651 Irish DeCicco 75 47 .627 Jim Freres 44 27 .614 John Smith 61 37 .607 Joe Dehn 78 46 .590 Steve Rohrer 54 31 .574 Tim Althoff 77 44 .571 Greg Freund 81 45 .556 Rick Wakitsch 76 42 .553 Jerry Sullivan 48 26 .542 Mike Rogers 85 46 .541 Dave Sundby 76 41 .539 Bud Smith 53 28 .528 Ron Miller 74 39 .527 Tom Les 90 47 .522 John Hiller 62 32 .516 Doug Freund 70 36 .514 Bud Ny strom 41 21 .512 Fred Meyer 55 28 .509 Marty Sobczak 57 29 .509 MOST HITS RUNS SCORED Irish DeCicco 47 Ron Miller 40 Tom Les 47 Joe Dehn 39 Joe Dehn 46 Greg Freund 38 Mike Rogers 46 Tom Les 35 Greg Freund 45 Mike Rogers 33 Tim Althoff 44 Tim Althoff 31 Rick Wakitsch 42 Irish DeCicco 30 Don Prazak 41 DaveSundby 30 Dave Sundby 41 John DeCicco 28 John DeCicco 39 Butch Meyer 28 Ron Miller 39 Butch Meyer RUNSBATTEDIN DOUBLES , Tim Althoff 41 Joe Dehn 20 Greg Freund 41 Irish DeCicco 15 Joe Dehn 37 Doug Freund 15 Chuck Marke 35 Tim Althoff 13 GarySnell 34 Rick Wakitsch 13 Wayne Frantz 33 Greg Freund 11 Butch Meyer 33 Don Prazak 11 Doug Freund 31 Ray Thelen 31 * Bill Huff 30 TRIPLES HOMERUNS John Connell 4 Butch Meyer 8 John Smith 4 Bill Meyers 8 Greg Freund 3 Tim Althoff 7 Frank Lorch 3 Jerry Brodin 7 GarySnell 3 Bill Huff 7 Rick Wakitsch 3 McHenry Opens Season Routing Grant 162-196 An experienced McHenry high school varsity golf team won its opening match of the season Tuesday, easily over­ whelming Grant high school 162-196 (low score wins in golf) at the Fox Lake Country club. The Warrior victory parade was led by lettermen Tom Pepping, Tim Byers, Bob Golf Lunkenheimer, and Pat Becker, who each shot a score that was lower than Grant's lowest score. Pepping, Byers, and Lunkenheimer each shot a score of 40 for nine holes, while Becker carded a 42. No Grant golfers were close. Head coach Charles Cuda was pleased with the season opening effort. "It was a very tough course, and we played very good for this early in the season," he noted. Tuesday's match kicked off a busy week of action for the golfers. The Warriors were scheduled to play a match at Antioch Thursday. McHenry will open its home season Monday afternoon with a match against both Prospect and Elgin Larkin high schools. Tuesday, Sept. 13, McHenry will face Marian Central in a match which was originally scheduled to be played last week. Both McHenry and Marian play their home matches at McHenry Country club. PAGE 7 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER t, lfH 1 Meet The Athletes Miller (40), Joe Dehn (39) and Greg Freund (38) were one, two and three. Joe Dehn led the league in doubles with 20. That was 5 better than Irish DeCicco and Indian Manor's Doug Freund both tied at 15. John Connell of Rusty Nail was tied with John Smith for triples at 4. Butch Meyer of O'Brewery and Bill Meyers of The Chalet tied far homerun leadership with eight round trippers. Old Bridge led the league in team batting with a .500 average. St. Regis >yas next at .457 followed by Rusty Nail at .450 and O'Brewery at .440. Pat Wirtz (signing off until next year!) « es» ramjju i m i I Mark Rogers (football) Jim Buenzli (golf) ucHtnr tISBDI f FWTBAU4 Dave Pllner , (football) This week's McHenry senior athletes include a football player who caught a touchdown pass in last Friday's \ 'Soap' Bowl, a golfer who enjoys bowling, and a tight end who expects to wind up as a businessman after graduating from college. Mark Rogers The McHenry Hornets of the Junior Football league helped turn Mark Rogers' interest toward the gridiron game, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome ftogers is now a wingback on the Warrior varsity squad. For Mark, wingback is a new position. He played defensive back last season, and is happy with the switch to offense, saying that he feels more in the game playing offense. Besides football, he has also played baseball for the past three years at McHenry high school, and plays guitar "just for fun." It was Mark who snared a 29-yard pass for the Black team's only touchdown in last week's 'Soap' Bowl. The Rogers family could almost make their own football team. Counting "ma and pa", there are a total of nine in the Rogers household. Jim Buenzli A lifetime resident of McHenry, Jim Buenzli is one of' several letter winners returning to the '77 McHenry varsity golf team. , » Jim, who has a personal best score of 68 for an eighteen* hole round of golf, says he got interested in the game " through an older brother who played the game. He hM g: been golfing since he was ten-years-old, and believes tMs :£ season could be one of the best ever for the McHenry golf $ team. Besides hitting the little white ball around, Jim enjoys £ bowling, and finds a link between the two sports in the ;j>; arm action required and the follow-through. i|: The son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Buenzli finds that the :j:|: toughest part of golf is chipping and putting. He says that >:• besides working on the "short" game, he tries to get to a :|:j; driving range as much as possible. Following graduation next May, Jim hopes to attend g college, although which university and what he will study & is unknown at this time. Dave Pliner :|i; One of the toughest of all football positions to play is tight end. One of the candidates for the tight end spot on McHenry's varsity is Dave Pliner, 6-5, 185-pound son of & Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pliner. This is Dave's fourth year of football at MCHS, and he has also played two years of basketball. Speaking of the tight end position, he says that the toughest aspect is blocking, noting that some types of blocks a tight end is required to make are difficult. Besides playing football and basketball, Dave enjoys >:• doing a little hunting, and plans on attending a college in Illinois next fall. He expects to work with his father in his parent's job $ field this coming summer, and will study some form of business (accounting, management, etc.) at the college he & chooses to attend. xk : T- rj f i f teitr, Local Youths Play Big Part In Marian Victory l 8 >>: Three local youths led a parade of Marian runners across the finish line Tuesday, as the Hurricane cross country team won its opening meet of the season, toppling Jacobs 19- 42. In cross country, the low score wins, and Marian runners finished in first, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh, for a total of •nineteen points. The individual winner of the meet was Marian's Darryl May. The junior from John- sburg negotiated the 2.95 mile Jacobs pourse in 16:00, beating the first Jacobs runner across the finish line by well over one minute. Finishing third -in the race was Marian's Tom Hiller, a McHenry resident, who recorded a time of 17:43. Sophomore Mike Davis, also of McHenry, was the third Marian Vrunner to finish, with his time of 17:43 being good enough for fifth place overall. In commenting on his team's performance, Hurricane cross country coach Hans Rokus said. "It was a good Way to start out. We'll run against Round Lake and Woodstock Thursday, and that will be a better test." Cross Country The coach was extremely pleased with the times of Davis and another sophomore, Mike DiPirro, while he was / for a little more from a of his seniors. v W If Following the meet Which was scheduled for Thursday, Marian will next run Tuesday, Sept. 13, against Ida Crown. Com* in and brown*, you'll gel idfw for furniahing your bath and discover many charming gift*. 3012 W. Rir. 120. McHenry Eairt of New Bridpe-Free Parking •, 385-0048 Mon.-Thurn. 9-5:30. Fri. 9-9. Sal. 9-5 Complete planning and inaiallalion of fimluren and aec*ww>rieii. • - / . 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