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SPORTS EARL WALSH So I Hear SPORTS EDITOR- Listening to radio station McHenry High hated to lose WIVS last Wednesday, the when the Johnsburg school sports report told of the Sox ^ was established. All^sports losing to Milwaukee the page readers know he has night before. What^«s--^iad-a«!^reat career in high revoltin' bit of news! Actually, the Sox had won the game. So, I cranked up the telephone and called the ^Cation. A girl with a pleasant tone took the message with an "Oh, my!" --with me foolishly thinking they would announce a correction. Nothing. Guess they thought some kind of a nut was calling. They were right ™ a baseball nut. But, WIVS did provide some valuable information during the same broadcast. The McHenry Hospital medical report on how to lose weight was most in­ teresting. How would a person ever know that your brain doesn't know your stomach is full until 20 minutes later? Seems to be a serious lack of communication between the two departments. When one fellow remarked that McHenry is fast becoming known as "The City of Parks", a bright one decided (after reading about the gypsy moths) it should be "The City of Sparks". If you are anywhere near» the Plaindealer office,the trucks hitting a bump in the pavement will keep you awake. It has been there lo­ ng before the present repairs were started and apparently is not where repairs are being made. When a truck hits that spot, it is whammo! We enjoyed Mrs. Leighty's musical program at Edgebrook School on Friday. Of course, it was having our granddaughter, Aleen, in the program that attracted us. As a feature to the program, Eddie Coates, a beginner, showed great promise as a saxaphone player. Must say Eddie endeared himself to one person's heart when he came through with an Irish tune. One of the nicest pieces of mail to come to our home was an invitation to attend Chris Dixon's 18th birthday party. Chris is one of the athletes HENNY PENNY FAMILY RESTAURANT 6:00 - 8:00 MONDAY - SUNDAY BREAKFAST SPECIAL $|00 3 eggs, potatoes, toast DINNER SPECIAL '2s* (including Salad Bar) Monday-Pork Cutlets Tuesday-Liver and Onions Wednesday-Homemade Spag. & meatballs Thursday-Stuffed peppers or Beef Stew Friday-Perch or Haddock Saturday-Beef & Noodle* McHenry Advances To Softball Semifinals A DEEP FLY-goes off the bat of Warrior Terri Bohlman in the third inning of their game, against Cary last Thursday at West campus. Inset photo shows a happy Terri as teammates welcome her at the plate. Terri, who leads the team in batting with a .476, also hit a homer in the fourth inning as the Warrior girls downed Cary by a 11-1 score. Last Saturday, they met Cary in the quarter final game of the regional and their 4-1 victory advanced them to the semi round-of play today against Round Lake. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLOED school athletics. The scene of the well- planned party was Bill and Alice Howenstine's Pioneer Farm -- and wonderful, thoughtful and gracious were they. The Dixon's, young enough and enthusiastic enough to enter into the spirit of youth activities, brought their son to his birthday party blind­ folded. When mother removed the blindfold, the crowd let loose with Happy Birthday. Wow! Chris was really surprised. He had been in the dark, not knowing what was coming. Randy Swikle and his wife, Eileen, great favorites of the young people, planned and carried out a real clever program. Amusing slides, campfire chatter, a boun­ teous spread of food, and humorous gifts were part of the evening. Never before have we seen a revolving message as carried by an airplane circling high above the campfire group. Nothing was overlooked in making the 18th birthday of a fine young athelte and outstanding young man a memorable occasion. Just to watch and listen to those young people was a joy to us. Unlike the Kentucky Derby, the boy horses didn't chase the filly, Genuine Risk, across the finish line in the Preakness race. To most viewers it was clear that a big, baby boy horse played bumpsy with the girl horse. The stewards didn't see it that way so it must have been an illusion to millions of TV viewers. Sue Haddick, McHenry High junior, made the Chicago Tribune athlete of the week for her outstanding Softball performances. Sue has pitched two no-hitters and two 1- hitters this season. Our congratulations. Wires were crossed. May 17th hot the 13th is Nor­ wegian Day. In case you don't know. McHenry High school's girl's varsity Softball team advanced to the regional semi-finals by defeating Cary Grove 4-1 in quartet* final play on Saturday. The victory means the Warriors will play Wednesday, May 21 at 4 p.m. at Round Lake vs. the winner pf the Grant quarter-finals game. In Saturday's game two freshmen, Robin Geiger and Karen Karpavicius, were the Warrior batting stars. Both players went 3 for 4 with an RBI. Pitcher Sue Haddick had a 3-hit shutout going until the last inning. After striking out the first two batters, Had­ dick walked Cary Grove's leadoff batter. The next two batters hit successive singles to give Cary a run. The cleanup batter was next up representing the tieing run. Haddick caused her to ground out to first to end the contest. Haddick struck out 11 batters in the seven inning game. Three of those came in the second after Cary Grove had loaded the bases. McHenry ab r h rbi Bohlman 3 0 0 1 Geiger 4 13 1 Connell 3 10 0 Karpavicius 4 0 3 1 Haddick 3 0 1 1 Chesler 3 0 0 >0 West 2 10 0 Byrne 3 0 0 0 Bitterman 111 0 Williams 0 0 0 0 Totals: McH Cary G. 26 4 8 . 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 Pat Wirtz Sue Hutchinson And Tim Sabatka Receive Tennis Scholarships Sue Hutchinson, daughter of JoAnn and Bill Hut­ chinson, received word Saturday mofning that she was being awarded a tuition and fees tennis scholarship to the University of Illinois at Champaign. Sue, most valuable player on the girls' tennis squad the past two years, was two time district singles, champion, and a state meet participant. Tim, son of Irene and Mike Sabatka recently was of­ fered a tuition and fees scholarship for tennis at Lewis college in Lockport, Illinois. Tim, the most valuable tennis player on the McHenry boys' tennis team the past two years won four matches at the state meet last year. On Thursday of this week Tim and his doubles partner Butch Pintozzi, will participate in the 1980 tennis meet at Arlington Heights. Valentin Gets Five Hits In 12-lnning Loss To Kirkland Johnsburg baseball star Kurt Valentin slugged Ave hits, including two doubles, but the Skyhawks still lost 8- that is the same day of the month when that great saint, Patrick by name, is honored. Of course, March is the month. Whenever one of our dear readers wants a correction, we always offer to print it with their picture. That does it. Some people will do anything to get their name or picture in the paper - others will do anything to keep them out. There is a rumor around that "Scotty" Thomas shot a hole-in-one on some course. Maybe it was in "Scotland. The way I get it, there were no witnesses. Far be it from this column to print anything but facts. You know that! 7 to Kirkland-Hiawatha in a game which lasted 12 innings on the Kirkland field last Wednesday. Valentin, who is batting. 472, went five to six at the plate and earned four RBI's. He scored twice himself. Dave Mauer, who is John- sburg's other leading hitter with a .404 season average, had a rather disappointed day at the plate going one for six. The Skyhawks took an early lead as Maurer and Valentin each scored runs in the first inning. In the second inning Johnsburg scored an additional four runs. At the end of three innings the Skyhawks led 7-0.' In the bottom of the fourth Kirkland came alive, scoring five runs on two hits and one error, Kirkland tied the score7-7 in the fifth, and that's where the score remained until the bottom of the 12th inning when Kirkland scored on an error. The Skyhawks close their SPECIAL CHICKEN CARRYOUTS Corner of 130 A Kent Rd. •f--I Swyry •SfwtUdlclM •Children's Fnt PnUmii McHenry Office 4305 W. Elm Street (Rte. 120-Across the Street _ from Hornsby's) (815) 344-3900 Sw^ep Seeond John's Sport Stop Wins Thriller Fox Hole and King's Row were both winners in Monday evening Twelve Inch play as both teams increased their won-lost record to 2-0. Fox Hole easily handled Wayne's 13-1 in five innings while King's Row beat Little John's 8-6. John's Sport Stop evened their record at 1-1 as they came from 7 runs behind to overcome Second Federal Savings of Fox Lake 15-12. Eastern Division w 1 Fox Hole 2 0 King's Row 2 0 John's S.S. l 1 Little John's 1 1 Second Fed. o 2 Wayne's 0 2 Games scheduled for Monday, May 19: Second Federal Savings vs. King's Row at A.P. Freund field; John's Sport Stop vs. Wayne's at Petersen park; Little John's vs. Fox Hole at Petersen park. All games begin at 6:15 p.m. unless the lights are working which mean all three games would be played at the new field. Bentz Homer Leads Parade. Don Bentz slammed a 3- run homer in the bottom of the second to give Fox Hole a lead after Wayne's Kevin Horner had blasted a solo homerun a half inning earlier. Although the win­ ners needed no more they continued to pound Wayne's for 10 more runs to win easily 13-1. Vinnie Freund hit a back- to-back homer following Bentz's drive. Freund also doubled in a rim. Billy Meyers hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Jeff Meyers, Ron Miller, Billy Meyers, and Myron Bentz all had 2 hits each. Miller indued a 2-run single and 2 runs scored. Wayne's had only 4 singles besides Horner's solo homerun. For head coach Joe Prazak it was another frustrating evening of soft- ball as his club fell again by the 12-run rule. Wayne's 0 1 0 0 0 -1 Fox Hole 0 4 2 6 1* -13 Jones Powers King's Row to Victory - Doug Jones slammed a 3- run homer and drove in 2 more runs giving him 5 season this Thursday at North Boone. • J H S 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 r h e 7 13 2 KHHS 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 X r h e 8 9 3 0R. ROBERT 6LICK WATCH FOR OUR SPECIAL PARKING-MEIER MORITORIUM PROMOTION RBI's in King's Row 8-6 victory over Little John's. Tim Whitman had 2 singles and a sacrifice fly good for 2 more King's Row runs. John Walkington singled twice and scored 3 runs while leadoff batter Willie Howard added 2 hits. Randy Vank and Bob Zientek led Little John's with 2 hits and 2 RBI's each. Vank scored 2 runs while Mike Peterson knocked in 2 runs. Jeff Meddings and Steve "Ben" Himpleman each scored twice. ing's Row 3 0 1 0 4 0 0-8 ittle John's 3 0 0 0 0 3 0-6 Wakitsch Plus Freund Equals Victory • Rick Wakitsch and Greg Freund combined for 6 hit,s, 6 RBI's and 5 runs scored to help John's Sport Stop to their first victory of the season. The win climaxed a'hard fought game between both ball clubs with Second Federal Savings of Fox Lake taking a 7-run lead in the second inning. The Sport Stop scored 3 in the third but Second Federal countered with 3 runs to hold a 10-3 lead after three innings. When Second Federal bats '"went to sleep" over the next 3 innings John's went to work with the catchup, tie and go-ahead rims. A four run seventh insured the victory although Second Federal left 2 runners on with the tying run at bat in a rally that fell short. Rick Wakitsch finished the game with a single, double and 3-run homer plus 3 runs scored. Greg Freund added a pair of doubles, a triple, 2 runs and 2 RBI's. Doug Freund, Joe Dehn, Gary Gilpin, Jim Grabowski and Dave Schaefer all had 2 hits each for the winners. Both Freund and Schaefer included hoifreruns with Gilpin adding 2 RBI's. : Don Tortoricci had 3 hits, 2 runs scored and 2 RBI's to lead Second Federal. Kevin Smith had a single, a homerun, and 3 RBI's while Pete Qlackburn singled, tripled, and drove in two. Don "Harpo" Rode, Bill Lomas and Gary Palaga all had 2 hits each. John's S.S. 0 0 3 4 3 1 4-15 Second Fed. 0 7 3 0 0 0 2-12 Pat Wirtz Wayne Besserud Runs Way To State Meet By Randy Swikle Johnsburg track star Wayne Besserud qualified for the State track meet during district competition last .Saturday at North Central college in Naper- ville. Besserud took second in the 800 meter dash to earn his ticket to the State meet to be held at Eastern Illinois university in Charleston this weekend. His finishing time was 1:59.6, a new school record for Johnsburg "high. Besserud finished fourth in the 400 meter dash with a time of 52.8. Skyhawk Rick Szumlas barely missed qualifying for the State when he came in fourth place in the high hurdles with a time of 15.84. In the 3200 meter run, Mike Steck finished with a time of 10:57.9. Senior Jim Flood and sophomore Mike Steck ran their personal bests in the 1600 meter run. Flood completed the race in a time of 5:13.9, and Steck crossed the finish line with a time of 5:06.3. In the 1600 meter relay, the' Skyhawks team consisting of Chiis Dixon, Bob Baker, Szumlas and Besserud, captured fifth place with a time of 3:34.3. Dixon, who jumped 6'2" a week earlier and tied the Shark Conference high jump , record, had a disappointing jump of 5'10" at the district. The Skyhawks were scheduled to participate in the McHenry County meet at Woodstock on Monday. Marian Tennis Squad Finishes 16-2 Season This Hurricane tennis squad completed a most successful season with victories over Woodstock, McHenry and Mundelein and thus finish with a 16-2 record. In the Mundelein victory • Mike Kiernan took number one singles 6-0, 6-2; Jim McAndrew lost number two singles 7-5, 6-1; Oswaldo Telles won at number three smglesJM^^Jfik^David and Scott Truckenbrod won at number 6ne doubles 6-4,6- 2, and Paul Olszak and Chris Juzwik won number two doubles 6-2, 7-5. "It was a very satisfying season. The kids set some lofty goals and worked ex­ tremely hard to achieve such a successful mark. I am real proud of their efforts," commented coach Hans Rokus. MMM MENS 16" SOFTBALL Tuesday, May 13. In the opening game of the season, Sunnyside Inn held off a last inning rally by 3-D Bow) and came away with a 9-7 victory. Houseth led the way for Sunnyside with 3 hits in 4 at bats and scored 2 runs. Fredric also scored 2 runs. Richardson paced 3-D Bowl with a perfect 3 hits in 3 at bats. Jachec and Stocker both had 2 hits in four at bats. Sunnyside Inn 4 4 0 0 0 1 x r h e 9 7 4 3-D Bowl 2 10 10 0 3 r h e 7 12 7 In the second game, Hautzinger Concrete was no : match for Johnsburg Tavern in a 19-1 triumph. Pitcher Frantz of Johnsburg gave up just 6 hits in the victory. Spazovich led the winners with 3 hits in 4 at bats and scored 3 runs. HUler also scored 3 runs while Oeffling had 2 hits. Bentz paced the losers with 2 hits in 3 at bats. Frantz-winner. Klapperich- loser. Hautzinger C. 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 r h e 1 6 7 Johnsburg T. 2 0 0 1 4 3 x O r he 10 11 2 Thursday, May 15. Old Bridge-John's Sports Stop won a close first game, 14-11, over Little Johns. Little Johns scored 6 runs in the top of the first inning, but the Bridge came back with 8 of their own in the bottom of the frame. Joe Dehn and Ron Lentine led the Bridge, both with 2 hits in four at bats, and 2 runs scored. Dave Schaefer followed suit with 2 hits in 2 at bats. Vauk led Little Johns with 3 hits in four at bats and scored 2 runs. Little Johns 6 1 1 0 0 2 1 r h e 11 15 5 Johns S.S. 8 4 0 i 0 1 i r he 14 12 6 In the second game, everybody got in to the act, as Foxhole Tap romped over the Palace Bowl 23-0! Rookie pitcher Billy Meyers, in his first start, gave up just three hits in the winning cause. Tom Hurkes paced the winners with 4 hits in four at bats and scored 3.runs. The big blow of this game was the fifth. inning 2-run home run by Vinnie Freund. Vinnie also scored 4 rung. Meyers also had a double and a triple. Foxhole T. 1 1 9 6 6 x x r h e 23 18 2 Palace B . O t t l u r h e 0 3 13U Upcoming games: Thursday, May 22: 3-D Bowl vs. Johnsburg Tavern. Old Bridge-Johns Sports Stop vs. Palace Bowl. Tuesday, May 27: Palace Bowl vs. Little Johns. Hautzinger Concrete vs. 3-D Bowl. So come out and see some exciting 16-inch Softball at the V.F.W. Hope to see you there. D.J.L. And Livelier Half the charm of the "good old days" is that we were 20 years younger. •Tribune. Chicago. PAGE • - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. MAY 21.1«M Cary. Sue has also pitched every game for McHenry, and though their record stands at 9 and 7, she has pitched two no hitters and a pair of one hitters. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD SAFE AT THIRD-Warrior pitcher Sue Haddick slides into third as the Cary third baseman mishandles the throw frorii the catcher. The play developed on a pass ball. Sue drove in three runs on a pair of singles in the Warrior 11-1 win over I