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PUT IT OVER PAINT OLYMPICS OVE3COKT «lh _£>N ijt 3R0SIM «l<"' •0* iwrqi •»«-*.*!«- «TL-.T M*vw< ;i*Lxu«/i ; «i •«, Arizon^v SUM More? Cor r . fo r t w i th Loss Enorqy ARE THE WESTERN WEAR SPECIALISTS IN THE iND AREA AND CAN GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. WE FEATURE A SELECTION WESTERN BOOTS, HATS, CLOTHING AND AC­ CESSORIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN. FOR THAT SOCIAL DAD OR GRAD. COME TO THE EXPERTS AT ARIZONA SUN. V ^ARIZONA ' SUN Wtlttrt Wt&r i Ant hi* tic Mm Jtmthf 3321 W. KLM ST. MC HENRY, IL-L-. 819-368-1033 WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 1W1 JACKIE WEBER of Marian Central it safe at third base on this play, but McHenry came out on the winning end in Thursday's regional softball game. The Warriors won the Relief For The 24-Hour Fan If you are a true sports freak like me, there are times when you can't get enough sports. Even after reading the paper and any number of magazines, you begin to feel that you need more. Fortunately there is relief. If you want sports anytime of the day, all you need do is flip on the 24-hour sports network on cable television. If you just want to find out if Fernando Valenzuela won his latest start, you can pick up the phone. If sports fever has you in its grip, a cure is close at hand The other morning for instance I watched a rodeo while wolfing down my breakfast. One sleepless night I saw a collegiate lacrosse game. And on any given evening I can view a championship volleyball match right after Hawkeye and Radar leave the screen. This, my friends, is sports freak heaven. « I have watched the television programming with continued amusement And my favorite event thus far has been the rodeo. Scorecard By Jeff Stern The announcers were the main source of my en­ joyment. The color com­ mentary was provided by two "good ole boys" whose voices fairly dripped with Dixie. Their analysis cannot be fairly critiqued because rodeo experts are somewhat rare. But I must admit that their comments were, to say the least, homespun I cite the case of the calf roping competition. One entrant failed miserably, causing one of the color men to say something^ike, "Well old Billy Joe Bob let that there calf get the best of him. The rope done slipped clean offin the cow's head and now this here cowboy is up the crick without a paddle." This was a refreshing change from the usual flag- waving efforts of local an­ nouncers. It was music to my ears, at least when compared with some of Jimmy Piersall's "Golly- gee-whiz-aren't-t he-Sox- great-Harry" commentary There are other plusses. Because the announcers don't follow the teams on a regular basis, they seem to do a better job of studying the backgrounds of players beforehand. And along with the unique events such as volleyball and rugby, the network concentrates on collegiate sports. Collegiate sports are a refreshing break after a steady diet of pro sports If you just need to hear the final scores, you can pick up the phone and call Dial-It National Sports. This tape recorded message is also available 24 hours a day and is updated at half-hour in­ tervals. The tape can be heard by dialing 1-900-976-1313. It is not a toll-free call, but the charge is minimal. The recording provides other information in addition to the final scores. Starting pitchers, the anticipated weather at the ballparks, trades and other deals are all available The one fault of the service is that the announcer has to cram several pieces of in­ formation into a 60-second period Thus the report often sounds like a record album playing three speeds too fast. This service will be far less popular if the rodeo analyst took over If you have a craving for sports, you can get your flTT any time of the day or night The wonders of modern technology put sports at your fingertips I for one will not complain Skyhawks Set Victory Mark Rich Prestoi;, making his final appearance in a Johnsburg uniform, blanked North Boone on five hits, boosting the Skyhawks to a 10-0 victory in the season finale Thursday. The victory was John- sburg's tenth, and gave coach Jim Meyers his first .500 season ever. The Skyhawks won five of their last six games to achieve a 10-10 record. "We won only four games last season and seven the year before that, so I'm very pleased," Meyers said. At the beginning of the season, Meyers said his goal was to win more than seven games. The Skyhawk bats came alive early and provided a quick end to the game. Rob Peisert led off the first with a single. John Armon walked and Dave Maurer doubled in a run Joe Meyers tripled home a pair and Scott Valentin walked Randy Wakitsch laid down a perfect squeeze bunt and reached first base as well. Preston reached on an error to load the bases and Peisert walked to force in a run. Maurer led off the second with a home run and Meyers followed with a towering triple to the trees in right field. Meyers was left stranded, however. In the third, Dan Williams singled and Peisert sacrificed. An errant throw allowed Williams to circle the bases. Johnsburg closed out the scoring in the fourth when three walks loaded the bases Wakitsch hit a ground ball resulting in a play at the plate, but Maurer slid in safely. Preston grounded into a double play, but another walk set up Scott Zelke's two-run single. North Boone loaded the bases in the second and fourth innings, but Preston used strikeouts to choke off the rallies. He struck out the side with the bags filled in the second and fanned two in a similar situation in the fourth. "He showed me some class." Meyers said of Preston. "I just wanted to see how far he could go. and it was his last game He did a very fine job for us." Pigtails Underway There was action aplenty when the McHenry Pigtail league junior opened play Highlighting the games was a shutout win by the McHenry Savings team Kim Belzer shut down the Toddler shop on no hits over softball division recently opening oifts for Grad* And Dads three innings as the Savings and Loan romped to a 19-0 victory. Julie Wiedeman came on in relief for the S and L. McHenry Recreation defeated Ed's Rental 10-7 The game was a seesaw affair from the start. Ed's took a 3-0 lead after one inning, but McHenry Rec chipped away and finally tied the score. After the teams battled to a 6-6 tie in the third. McHenry Rec scored four times in the fifth to seal the Warriors Edge Marian contest 4-3 and advanced in tournament play. Robin Geiger of McHenry took the throw on this play. STAFF PHOTO - WAYNE GAYLORD Marian Central's softball coach, Kerry Muldowney, had practiced all week for Thursday's quarterfinal ballgame versus McHenry. Both Muldowney and a pitcher from boy's baseball team had been serving overhand fastballs to ready the Hurricane girls for their confrontation with ace Warrior pitcher Sue Had- dick. It nearly worked. Fox Valley all-conference candidate Sue Dixon "came through as she has all season", according McHenry coach Mary Osterman. Not only did Dixon go three for four, but her triple in the bottom of the ninth drove in the win­ ning runs in McHenry's tense 4-3 victory over Marian Central. The Hurricanes did end up outhitting the Warriors 8-5. However, McHenry took advantage of nine walks served up by Marian pitcher Joyce Kennebeck. In nine innings of pitching, Haddick struck out 11 Marian batters to six strikeouts by Ken­ nebeck Dixon's two-out triple in the first helped put McHenry in the lead. She scored two pitches later on a passed ball In the third Dixon scored whe she singled, went to second on a passed ball and scored on Karen Karp- vicius' double. " The 2-0 score held up until Marian pushed across two runs in the sixth. Patty Guerin led off with a single and Linda Aim drew a base on balls. McLaughlin reached base on an error to load the bases. Sandi Kasting grounded to the mound, but Haddick threw Guerin out at the plate. Corcoran walked to force in a run followed by Ken- nebeck's fielder's choice which brought in McLaughlin. However, the rally ended when Joan McLaughlin popped up to right leaving the score tied at two apiece. Jayvees Take Fiist McHenry's frosh-soph softball team, coached by Pat Wirtz, won the undisputed championship in the Fox Valley conference by defeating Dundee 11-8 .last week. The victory left tne Warriors with a 12-2 conference mark and a 15-3 overall record. Catcher Val Gilbert was one of main heroes for McHenry, delivering the game-winning hit in the final inning. Gilbert finished the day with three hits and three runs batted in. On defense, she threw out two Dundee runners to help halt Card rallies. Cissy Pinkstaff was the winning pitcher. She struck out two of the final three Card batters she faced. It was Pinkstaffs eleventh win against only one loss. She helped her own cause with two hits, a walk and three runs scored. Also contributing to the offense were Dawn Suchor with two hits, "Bird" Jaskowiak with a double and two runs batted in and Lee Tomlinson, who hit a two-run double. Rounding out McHenry's roster were Beth Goebel, Julie Hettermann, Kathy Johnson. Kris Keevil, Andee Norton. Terri Rossetti and Wendy Tnurlwell. Gina Bennett and Ellie Westman were sidelined due to injuries. Team managers were Debbie Allen, Kim Thompson, Lori Widhalm and J ana Williams. McHenry and Marian would threaten in the seventh and eighth innings with both teams having two runners reach base each inning. Then came the exciting ninth inning Walsh homered with one out in the top of the inning to put Marian Central in front "Our right fielder, Pam West, attempted the 'shoe string' catch but came up empty handed", lamented Osterman. After Haddick struck out Kasting, it was the Lady Warriors' turn. Kerry Kraus led off with a walk and Kathy Bitterman drew another to put two runners on. After Robin Geiger struck out, Dixon stepped to the plate. "Muldowney had her intentionally walked last time up in the seventh", said Osterman. This time she slammed the first pitch into the right-centerfield alley. "It would have been a 3-run homer, but when Bitterman scored that was the game," Osterman concluded. It didn't seem to bother Dixon nor the rest of the team, since they move into the semi-finals. Errors Sink Local Nine To err is human; to forgive is not covered by the baseball rules Thus a threes inning lapse in fielding by McHenry's baseball team spelled a 12-6 defeat to Rock- ford Jefferson Tuesday in IHSA regional action. The Warriors booted plays in various ways to total 11 errors in the second, third and fourth innings. McHenry coach Brian Wilson said the fumbles came in all shapes and sizes and that few of his charges were immune. 'We had throwing errors and fielding errors Rock- ford had a 7-2 lead after four innings and hadn't even hit the ball out of the infield," said Wilson. Only one of Jefferson's initial seven runs was earned. Wilson said that pitcher Bob Bryniarski did not do a poor job, but was the v ictim of circumstance. "Bryniarski pitched fairly well, actually," Wilson stated. "It was a little embarassing But there's nothing you can do about it. Those are the breaks of the game." The breaks actually .favored McHenry early in the game. The Warriors grabbed a 2-0 lead in the second when John Doessel walked, Fritz Larsen was hit by a pitch and Mike Dillon hit a two-run single. But Rockford scored four in their half of the second and three in the third for all the runs they needed. Jef­ ferson added a five-run fourth, driving Bryniarski from the mound in favor of Dan Long. McHenry's defense tightend considerably after the pitching change, but the damage had been done. Long finished the game and did not allow a hit over the last three innings. The Warriors chipped away with a run in the fourth Doessel walked and Larsen doubled him home. McHenry plated three runs in the fifth to round out the scoring. Rob Kalck and Long walked. Joe Bauml reached on a fielder's choice and an ensuing error allowed Kalck and Long to score. Bauml scored on Dave Smith's sacrifice fly Jefferson only outhit the Warriors by one, 7-6. Wilson said the team sorely missed Jeff McNish, who was ill and could not attend the game. McNish is the team's leading hitter and the only Warrior with a batting average above 300. "Along with the errors, that probably hurt the most," Wilson opined. "The long ride in the bus might have been a factor as well I don't know " The Warrior sophomore team may provide future help for Wilson. McHenry whipped Dundee last week 5- 1 behind the pitching of Mike Bauml. He gave up nine hits, but struck out seven in posting the win Plaindealer Four Unbeaten In 12-Inch T h e J o h n s b u r g Businessmen won their third straight by defeating Hainesville Inn 22-9. The winners were led by Tom Spasojevich's; three home runs and six RBIs. Spas, who now is tied for league home run leadership with four roundtrippers, went four-for- four with an intentional walk and five runs scored. Scott Ledster continued his hot streak, going three- for-four with five RBIs. Brian DiBlasi also went three-for-four before he left the game due to an injured finger Tim Frantz added three hits and Wayne Hiller drove in three runs with a home run. Hiller, along with Phil Oeffling, Bob Wakitsch, Mike Weber and Wayne Frantz, all had two hits each for the winners. Pat Zwilling was the main offense in Hauiesville's attack as he 'homered, tripled, singled and drove in five runs. Rich Leigh homered and doubled to drive in a pair of runs, while 1FRSWIIH4 Buy 4 gallons of any one Olympic Product, gel 1 free. Henry Hunsinger added a triple and single. Hainesville Inn kept the game close for four innings, as they trailed only 13-9 However, Johnsburg scored six runs in the fifth to help clinch the victory, while the losers went scoreless in the final three frames Three of the Hainesville infielders - Leigh, Mike Ingleby and Hunsinger. made three great stabs of Johnsburg line shots. Doherty's won an im­ portant game versus Rusty Nail Inn by a score of 14-10. Doherty's remains un­ defeated with a 3-0 record and stays tied with John­ sburg for first place. Mike Rogers and John DeCiccio both went four-for- four to lead the winners. Mike Peterson added three hits with two RBIs. Matt Oik had two hits while Jim Wayman did also including an inside-the-park home run. Gary Schmitt paced the Rusty Nail attack with three line-shot singles and three RBIs. Rick Wakitsch hit his fourth home run of the season and had four RBIs. Ray Thelen, Bill Rudolph and Len Ackerman had two hits each. A big seven-run third inning put the Doherty's team on top for good as they shrugged off an early 4-1 Nail lead. The winners outhit their opponents, 19-13. Doherty pitcher Irish DeCiccio made the catch of the game when he snared Larry Jones' line shot up the middle to end a Nail rally in the fifth inning. Tom Blenner's crew was pretty excited on Wednesday evening. 'Huemann's won their first contest of the season by defeating Jewel Park 12-8. Gary Rudsinski was an important ingredient in Huemann's victory as he had two hits and drove in three runs Ken Bottair, Paul Mulcaky. Dave Diedrich and Tom Blenner all had two hits each for the winners Jewel Park of Barrington was led by Larry Lowrey's three base hits and three runs scored. Rick Schacht. Leon Palatas and Craig Rodgers had two hits each for Jewel. For the losers it was another frustrating evening of softball as dropped fly balls and errant baserunning spoiled their best effort of the season. Manager Leon Palatas was probably feeling more like the Cubs' skipper, Joey Amalfitano, as he looked over the post-game summary sheets. Best defensive plays of the game include BlennCr's catch of a hot line drive and Tony Huemann's great styto of a hard ground ball deep A third along with a great throw to get his man by a half step. 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