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PAGE 8 - PLA1NDEALER - FRIDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1977 Warriors Oppose Zion i' •'<*. v In Homecoming Contest Maybe somebody knows something everybody else doesn't. After all, teams generally schedule their homecoming football games against weak teams in anticipation of a rousing victory before the largest crowd of the year. This year, McHenry slated Mundelein as the homecoming foe, and the Mustangs were not expected to be a contender for conference honors. School wasTiot going to be in session the day of the Mundelein game however, so homecoming was changed to this Friday. The Mundelein game was then played in a driving rainstorm that would have ruined all homecoming festivities. On top of that, Mundelein won the game 14-12. That, of course, was the homecoming that wasn't held. The date was changed to this weekend, and although the weather has to be better than the Mundelein game (it can't be worse), the opponent is not the lowly Mustangs, but the powerful Zee-Bees of Zion-Benton. Still, homecoming games are supposed to be won by the home team, so maybe, just maybe, somebody knows something about Friday's game that everybody else doesn't. Certainly, past performances indicate that Zion- Benton will be tough. The Zee-Bees have won all three conference games they have played, shocking Crystal Lake, battering Crown, and edging North Chicago. Meanwhile, McHenry has lost all three of its conference games, falling to Libertyville and Lake Forest as well as the Mundelein debacle. Past performances can generally be set aside however, in homecoming games. Warrior coach Bill Day promises his team will be ready to capture a homecoming victory. If the Warriors are victorious, it will be the first homecoming triumph in seven years. One asset Day will have this week that was missing from the Lake Forest contest is halfback Marty Deener. Deener sat out last week's game with an injury, and his return gives Day three potent backs. Deener teamed with Mike Tollifson in the backfield earlier this season, but his injury brought Tim Oakley into the backfield. All Oakley did was gain 95 yards rushing Saturday, catch two passes for 12 yards, and return kickoffs in the best performance by a Warrior back this year. Thus, Day now has the pleasant task of determining which of the three backs will play the two halfback positions. Regardless of who starts, all three will see considerable action. When McHenry isn't running the ball, the task of moving the ball through the air falls to Pete Prust. The junior left-hander has improved with every game this season, completing a remarkable 12 passes Saturday in the wind at Lake Forest. Prust's favorite target has been Marty Nuss, who has snared eight passes in each of the last two games. The entire Warrior team will have to be at its best Friday if it hopes to perpetrate an upset. The varsity game starts at 8 p.m., with the sophomores kicking off the evening at 6 p.m. NORTH SUBURBAN SCHEDULE Friday, October 14 Zion-Benton (3-0) at McHenry (0-3) Saturday, October 15 Crown (0-3) at North Chicago (1-2) Libertyville (3-0) at Lake Forest (3-0) Crystal Lake (1-2) at Mundelein (1-2) Marian Central Faces Driscoll EARL WALSH So I Hear SPORTS EDITOR * John Busscher phoned to be sure our annual bet on the lltorld Series is still cookin'. * John is a National League fan all the way, but admits his loyalty might have switched if Chuck Hiller and his Royals pad made their way into the aeries. » * John wants to see the Yankees get their ears pinned back. That takes a lot of doing we saw in the first game ly night. You don't have to like Manager Billy Martin. You do have to admit he makes the fight moves. * ' Of course, Billy has enough kings to win most any checker game. • * The world usually loves a tinner. Maybe not this year, fans are asking out loud if the rich clubs can get the stars and buy a pennant. <$ Our second guess Tuesday night was failure to give pitcher feon Sutton the hook when one ind all could see he was serving qp fat pitches. \ You can't leave a pitcher in there on his past reputation in a tfiort series. £ Sports events are drawing larger crowds than ever in spite of all the highly paid prima (lonnas who want no part of taking orders. Talk about a revoltin' development. I watched the Chicago Bears during the first half Monday night, then turned off the TV during half time to catch up on some reading. You won't believe! I fell asleep. Tired. Exhausted. No nap in the afternoon. So I missed the most exciting game the Bears have played in many a moon as they eked out a victory. With our very own eyes, we watched with pride as a little blond girl (not more than 10 years old) stopped her bicycle in Lakeland Park at a stop sign and looked both ways. We would have spoken words of praise and asked the little darling her name if it isn't a rule for children not to talk to strangers. GOOD SCOUTS HELP BOY SCOUTS - In talking with "Chuck" Nelson, chairman of the donation committee, I learned about the Wonder Lake Social Athletic club donating $500 to the Boy Scouts on the west side of Wonder Lake. Sheriff Art Tyrrell was made an honorary member of the Club Monday night. To raise funds for the con­ tinuation of good deeds the Wonder Lake Group is spon- GRANT BATTERIES UP TO $10«F W ^ | Y: McHENRY TIRE MART NOW FeaturSNQ SUPERS/HI. Firestone DELUXE OR IINIROYAL TIGER PAWS FULL 4 PLY - WHITEWALL G78-15 SALE PRICE $36 00 PRICES INCLUDES FREE MOUNTING & BALANCING! McHENRY TIRE MART 3931W. MAIN ST. McHENRY, ILL 815/385-0294 soring a dance at Christ the King church on Nov. 12. Steve Simon, President, and members of the club are working on advance sale of tickets to assure a successful event. Homecoming rolls around again at MCHS and school spirit is running high. The strong Zion-Benton team will be here Friday night with ideas of extending their un­ beaten record. Let's do something about that. You Warriors didn't get your name for nothing. The following is old, but always new: INDIAN PRAYER GREAT SPIRIT - Grant that I May not criticize my Neighbor until I have Walked a mile in his moc­ casins Warriors Face Lake Forest In Next Match The McHenry varsity volleyball team will play at Lake Forest Tuesday in an effort to return to the winning side of the ledger. Going into a match which was scheduled for Thursday afternoon against Woodstock, the Warriors had won just (Hie match, and had lost their last four in a row. Volleyball Despite the 1-6 start, Bonnie Ruggero, head coach, remains o p t i m i s t i c , n o t i n g improvement in various aspects of the team's game, especially in the area of spiking. Following the match at Lake Forest, the Warriors will play at Crystal Lake and at Antioch, before returning home to play Libertyville Nov. 1. A fault excused is twice committed. It's time for a change. When a football team is 1-4 when it should be 4-1, a change is certainly in order, and Tom Parker, head football coach at Marian Central, promises things will be different Saturday afternoon when the Hurricanes take the field to play undefeated (5-0) Driscoll. While Parker promised a turnabout, he did not indicate Tuesday evening what the changes would be, only that "a lot of people are going to be playing." A win, of course, is a must if the Hurricanes are to continue maintaining thoughts of a West Suburban Catholic conference championship. Presently, they are 1-2 in the league, while Benet and Driscoll are both 3-0. However, Marian still has to play both undefeated teams, so it is conceivable that they still have a shot at a playoff berth in the upcoming state football tournament. Parker was disappointed with both conference losses, 12- 6 to Montini, and 21-6 to Im­ maculate Conception. "When I think of the mistakes that cost us so dearly when we did so many things correct..." the coach lamented. While the coach said that he doesn't like to put any special emphasis on one game, he noted that Saturday's contest is an important one. for any conference title hopes, for a winning season, for pride, dignity, and everything else. While the season may be a disappointment thus far, certainly one pleasant surprise has been the play of offensive halfback Ron Wenzel. Wenzel dashed 79 yards for the lone Hurricane score in last weeks' loss to Montini, and has con­ tinually sparkled throughout the season. As for what Parker expects from Driscoll, he said that they run from a formation similar to Montini, i.e. a fullback very close to the quarterback, which results in lightening quick handoffs. Marian will have to stop that aspect of Driscoll's game as well as, or better than, it stopped Montini's last week. Montini stunned the Marian homecoming crowd Saturday by scoring the winning touch­ down in the final 28 seconds, culminating a lengthy drive which was kept going by three 15-yard penalties against the Hurricane defense. Those type of errors will have to be eliminated if the Hurricanes expect to win Saturday. WSCC SCHEDULE MARIAN at Driscoll St. Edward atl.C. Montini at Marmion St . Francis at Benet Schedule County Cross Country Meet Saturday The McHenry county cross country meet, featuring teams from every high school in the county, will be held Saturday morning in the city park in Woodstock. McHenry's Mike Burmann will be one of the favorites to win the race, although the McHenry team is facing an uphill battle against the likes of Woodstock and Crystal Lake for the varsity team title. Most recently, Burmann finished in the top five in the 44- team Peoria Invitational meet last Saturday. Prior to that race, he led the Warriors to a double duel victory over Crown and Zion-Benton last Thursday. The two North Suburban conference victories illustrate what has been occurring throughout the season. Burmann, Vince Linnane, and Kevin Weisenberger finished one-two-three in the race, which enabled McHenry to tip Crown 27-30 and Zion- Benton 23-33 despite the fact that Crown had its five runners in before McHenry's fourth man. Next week, McHenry com­ pletes its home season, running against North Chicago and Lake Forest. The Warriors were scheduled to run at L i b e r t y v i l l e T h u r s d a y a f ­ ternoon. Very Easily Pedestrian: A man who can be reached easily by automobile. -Sun Line, Mexico. McHenry Crowned 1977 NSC Golf Champions Head coach Charles Cuda stands with the seven members of the McHenry varsity golf team who won the North Suburban conference championship Tuesday at the McHenry Country club. They are from left to right: (kneeling) Jim "Buenzli, Pat Becker, Bob Lunkenheimer. (standing) Cuda, Tom Pepping, Ron Pepping, Tim Byers, Steve Kivley. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Playing brilliantly under miserable conditions, the McHenry Warrior varsity golf team swept team and individual honors Tuesday, winning the North Suburban conference golf tournament by a whopping 19 strokes. The Warriors' four-man, 72-hole team score of 307 was easily better than Lake Forest, which finished second with 326. Revenge was sweet for the Warriors Tuesday. Lake Forest handed McHenry its only dual meet loss this year, and the Scouts were one of three teams to topple the Warriors in last Saturday's Lake Forest Invitational tournament. Significantly, the state sectional tournament will be held Tuesday on the Lake Forest course. The Warriors would qualify for the sectional meet if they finished in the top three in the district meet. The district meet was scheduled for Thursday at the McHenry Country club. v District and Sectional meets had to take a back seat Tuesday* however, as sue Warriors were among the top nine scorers on the day. Ron Pepping and Jim Buenzli of McHenry tied with Brad Sargent of Lake Forest for medalist honors, the three of them shooting amazing three-over-par 74s on a day when there were almost as many scores over 100 as there were under 90. The vicious wind and unseasonably cold temperatures made playing conditions unbearable. Yet, the Warrior golfers were able to "burn up the course". Behind Pepping and Buenzli came Pat Becker. His 79 was good enough for a fourth place tie individually. Tom Pepping added an 80 to round out McHenry's team scoring. Not to be forgotten were Tim Byers and Steve Kivley, who each shot 82s, and Bob Lunkenheimer, who fired an 86. The team competition was never close, although it must be noted that Lake Forest played withoyt one of its top golfers, who was ,01. The Scouts can be expected to be at full strength next Tuesday for the sectional tournament, should they qualify in the Buffalo Grove district. Interestingly enough, McHenry's 307 total was 38 strokes lower than in the Lake Forest tournament, while the Scouts were nine strokes lower. The district tournament scheduled for Thursday included teams from Antioch, Waukegan West, Waukegan East, Crystal Lake, Cary-Grove, North Chicago, Zion- Benton, Woodstock, Warren, Round Lake, Grayslake, Grant, and Wauconda. Of the fourteen teams in the district, Antioch and the Waukegan schools were expected to offer the stiffest challenge. NSC TEAM RESULTS 1) McHENRY: 74 74 79 80 -307 2) Lake Forest: 74 83 83 86 -326 3) Crystal Lake: 82 90 90 91 -353 4) Libertyville: 84 84 92 95 -355 5) North Chicago: 79 91 93 93 -356 6) Mundelein: 86 87 92 92 -357 6) Zion-Benton: 89 89 90 90 -357 8) Crown: 97 109 113 114 -433 INDIVIDUALS 1) Ron Pepping (McH) 74, 1) Jim Buenzli (McH) 74, 1) Brad Sargent (LF) 74, 4) Pat Becker (McH) 79, 4) Alan Kalinoski (NC) 79, 6) Tom Pepping (McH) 80, 7) Tim Byers (McH) 82,7) Steve Kivley (McH) 82,7) Bruce Vierck (CL) 82, 10) Bill Wolf (LF), 10) Mike Bagatti (LF). A PUTT...THAT BREAKS LATE...EQUALS A BIRD THAT GOT AWAY...and the disappointment is displayed as Jim Buenzli had to settle for par on the 13th green during the North Suburban conference tournament Tuesday. Buenzli sank enough putts during his round to shoot a brilliant 74 and tie for the low round of the day. STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE GAYLORD 3321 W. ELM ST. MC HENRY. 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