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HARDWARE 1228 N. GREEN STREET McHENRY 385-0098 SUPPLEMENT TO McHENRY PLAINDEALER - PAGE 19 -FRIDAY, JANUARY 19. 1979 Reveal Exciting Sports Stories In '78 Review JANUARY The McHenry high Warriors led for almost thirty minutes but in the final two minutes the Mundelein Mustangs pulled ahead to win 57 to 53 in the Elgin Holiday tournament. The loss eliminated the Warriors from the tournament. In the second annual high school tournament Phil Kent of McHenry was the only player undefeated in the double elimination and Kathy McAndrews, also of McHenry, won over Marguerite Mattei of Grant high school in the Round Robin-total point cham­ pionship. Mike Zimmerman, a senior. was named Wrestler of the Week after placing second in the 167 lb. weight class at an­ nual sixteen team Holiday tournament held at Rockford Boylan. Coach Mike Shanahan presented awards to Jim Hall and Darreld Sek of the MCHS water polo team. Hall, voted Most Valuable, is a senior forward and led the team is assists with 44. He was also second highest scorer with 31 goals. Sek, a sophomore and starting goalie on the team, received the Most Improved award. Coach Bill Blankenhorn's sophomore cagers ran their record to 10 and 1 with a win over Fremd of Palatine, 61 to 50. The sophs ran up an 18 to i3 first quarter lead and increased their margin to a whooping 36 to 22 halftime margin. In the final half the young Warriors toasted to an easy victory. Coach Pam Schaefer's McHenry high school girl's basketball team lost to Wauconda by the score of 73 to 53. It was a case of too much experience on the pact of the Wauconda veteran team. The local girls, ift spite of k margin too great to overcome, played an excellent second Aalf of the game. The McHenry high Warriors held off a last minute rally and defeated the Zion ZeeBees 58 and 54 in a North Suburban Conference. It was the Warriors first conference win of the season and broke a six game losing streak. Coach Martin Sobczak's arsity wrestling team for- »ited two weight classes to help Zion-Benton win the conference dual 36 to 17. Had it not been for those forfeits, the match would have been a lot closer (17-24) , with the ZeeBees winning in six of the remaining weight classes and the Warriors in four. Don Bentz's two free throws with eight seconds remaining clinched a thrilling Warrior varsity win 58 to 57 over Woodstock at West campus. It was a typical Streak-Warrior game, a battle down to the final gun. The McHenry high sophomore basketball team easily defeated Woodstock by the score of 62 to 33. After the opening minutes it was simply no ^contest as the young Warri5r*comped and played to an easy win. Before a good crowd at West campus gym, the even year graduates defeated the odd numbered basketball crew score of 73 to 70. It was a jfin, happy time with both ^ides using their bench and yet a bit of competition was evident between the two groups. There are people, plenty of them, who never thought they'd see the author of the So I Hear column wearing a Cub cap. The details aren't clear but it ap­ pears to have happened at the second annual baseball banquet at Johnsburg. Randy Hundley, Cub catcher-coach, Oick Rabbitt, Herb Reihan- sperger, John Busscher and A1 Jourdan just may have had something to do with it- At the North Suburban Conference Wrestling tour­ nament in Libertyville, McHenry varsity wrestlers captured one first, one third and two fourth places. Senior Mike Zimmerman decisioned his Mundelein opponent 9-6 in the first round, scored a major decision over his Libertyville foe 10-1 in the second round, and won the class cham­ pionship over Mike Barge of Crystal Lake by a 5-2 score. (Continued on page 20) CHARLES VYCITAL HAS BEEN AT THE HELM OF THE FAMILY HAR­ DWARE BUSINESS FOR 51 YEARS, SERVING THE COMMUNITY IN THE SAME TRADITION OF FINE QUALITY AND GOOD SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN THEIR TRADEMARK SINCE 1906. ALICE PEET AND JANET DIEDRICH, PICTURED ABOVE WITH | "CHARLIE" HAVE BEEN LOYAL EMPLOYEES FOR 31 AND 7 YEARS ( RESPECTFULLY. f VYClf AL HARDWARE HAS KEPT UP WITH THE CHANGING SCENE , AND HAS PROVIDED ITS CUSTOMERS WITH WHATEVER THEIR NEEDS MAY BE, WHETHER IT'S HARDWARE, HOUSEWARE, PAINT, PLUMBING, HEATING,ELECTRICAL OR A BEAUTIFUL GIFT. Anxious Moments Without benefit of scoreboard, expressions on the faces of the Warrior cheerleaders tell the story of the seesaw battle during the third and fourth quarter of the first Regional tournament game between McHenry and Belvidere February 28. Not until there was only a second remaining, and McHenry ahead by only a point, was there no doubt - the home team was victorious. VYCITAL'S SERVING McHENRY SINCE 1906 «•> STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD