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PAGE 6 - PLAINDE ALER - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1182 Rival Streaks Knock Off Warriors In Final MIKE LAMB In the last game of the Fox Valley Conference season, fate landed in favor of the Woodstock Blue Streaks instead of the McHenry Warriors. On a fourth and five on the five-yard line, Warrior receiver Dennis Shaver leaped high for a Mike Love pass in the end zone. The ball came down with him and for a moment it seemed he had caught it for a touchdown -- in­ stead the ball broke loose from Shaver's grasp when he hit the ground. The Warriors would get no winning touchdown and Woodstock won 21-18. It was a game both teams wanted to win badly. The Warriors after losing its first four conference games and then winning its last two, wanted to finish with a winning record. Instead the Warriors finished with a 4-5 overall record and a 2-5 FVC record. The Blue Streaks were riding a two game losing streak and a win meant a 6-3 overall record and a 5-2 FVC record. "This was the one thing we really wanted to do," said Woodstock Coach Bob Bradshaw. "6-3 is a pretty nice season. 5-4 would have been very disappointing to us. "It was more or less important to come back after you lose. This group of kids worked very hard and deserve to have success." While Warrior Coach Joe Schlender wanted a win, he wasn't too upset with the loss. "I think our boys played pretty well. We made a few critical mistakes. It wasn't much of a margin of victory. We didn't get beat too often all season," said Schlender. The same old problem came back to haunt the Warriors in the last game -- the point after touchdown. The Warriors scored three touchdowns and were not successful on all three PAT's tries. Schlender agreed that was the margin of victory. After the Warrior defense held the Blue Streaks on their first offensive series, they drove 62 yards for the first touchdown. Hie drive was sparked by a 24 yard pass completion from Love to Mladen Rudman. The ball went into and out of the hands of a Woodstock defender and into the hands of Rud­ man. On a second and eight on the Blue Streak 23-yard line, Love went to the air again and found Rudman for a 13- yard pass. Inside the 10, Love ran for four and Mike Milinac topped off the drive with a five yard run for the touchdown with 5:40 left in the quarto*. On the two point conversion attempt, Love was stopped short and the Warriors led 6-0i Both Love and Milinac proved to be a deadly force for the Warriors. Love finished the game with five com­ pletions on seven attempts for 82 • yards and he rushed for 40 yards. Milinac rushed for 97 yards on 17 / attempts. The Blue Streaks came back quick. On their third play from srimmage, Woodstock scored on a 68 yard touch­ down pass from quarterback Greg Bradshaw to Gregg Fields. Bradshaw had the whole Warrior defense fooled on the play-action pass. Nobody was within 15 yards of Fields. That would be ong of two pass completions for the Blue Streak*, but it proved costly for the Warriors. • Joe Little hit on the extra point and Woodstock had a 7-6 lead. With the cold air, both teams had* trouble with turnovers. The Blue Streaks fumbled the ball three times and lo6t all three. Bradshaw was intercepted once also. The Warriors fumbled twice, losing one and Love was intercepted once. A second first quarter touchdown by the Warriors was called bade. Love conected with Lane for a 26-yard touchdown pass, only to have the referee's throw a flag on them. The The McHenry Plaindealer 6ports v.. - - WW" i t i. • Zsrs-'wm. ft •w Warriors Finish 7th At X-Country Sectional MIKE LAMB SCHAUMBURG -- It was just not meant to be for the McHenry Warrior boys' cross country team at the sectional meet in Schaumburg. Instead of finishing in the top four and qualifying for the state meet Saturday as they expected, the Warriors finished seventh and Chris Cruetz and Steve Carby will making the trip to Peoria Saturday. Creutz finished third and Carby was ninth. "We are all disappointed especially the kids. We thought we could take second or third," said Bill Hutchinson, the coach of the Warriors. Two unexpected problems occurred in the Warrior disappointing finish. One was Steve Carby. He was leading the race when on the last mile he dev­ eloped a side ache that hindered 1dm enough to drop back at ninth placfat the finish. He finished with a time of 15:44. He was 22 seconds behind the winning time. Even if Carby would have kept his first place lead, Hutchinson pointed out it wouldn't have mattered. "I don't think that would have improved our finish. We only could have im­ proved five-seven points and five- seven points wasn't enough." Also having a bad race was Brian Wright. He finished 74th. "74th, is J4 points. That is a lot of points. I think Brian Wright has tightened up the last couple races and I don't know why and I don't think he knows why. He usually runs a pretty good race. He was pretty disappointed." Creutz finished with a time of 15:29, which was seven seconds off the winning time. The Warriors finished with 165 points. Loyola won the meet with 100 points. Joining Loyola at the state meet will be Palatine, Conant and DeerfiekL New Trier and Glenbrook were the fifth and sixth place finishers. "The kids were not overconfident, but they thought they could qualify," said Hutchinson. "All those guys, except for Terry Harth and Jeff Pankiewicz have been down to Peoria before. But when you make it to., sectionals, that's a big thing in any sport. Hutchinson said all the Warriors ran a good race. Marty Koleoo was the third Warrior to finish at 36th. Harth was 74th, Jim Wynveen was 106th and Pankiewicz was 116th. Hutchinson is not quite sure why Carby developed a side ache. "I think Carby ate something he shouldn't have. But, who in the heck knows how it happens. I always tell the kids to eat something light." "He was in pretty bad shape. I'm surprised be finished. He might have won it. "I'm pretty proud of all the kids," Hutchinson added. "Carby and Creutz are first class runners. And so is Koieno. He is a super team man and so is Wright." Visit Our Boutiquo ism mad* whllo you wait 1 (Single vision plastic only) Ovar 1,000 First Quality Mokilor a ̂ Plastic *20 Fromoi w $ 1 2 Metal or Plastic m Visit Our Boutiquo Designer Section •citizens free frami m WITH PURCHASE 1 E OF LENSES Wacrior quarterback Mike Love tries to slip past the grasp of Woodstock defender joe Rizxo during a 13-yard gain late in the first quarter. Love finished five yard penalty and a five-yard sack of Love killed the Warrior scoring threat. The Warrior offense stalled after that ancUhe Blue Streaks wore able to scorgonce more. This time they used a time consuming drive made up of running (days. The largest gain was a 35-yard run by Greg Birdsell. He also put on the finishing touches on the 80- yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run. This time Little missed the extra point and Woodstock led 13-7 at halftime. . The Warriors came back for the second half and completely dominated the third quarter. The Blue Streaks only ran three plays from scrimmage in that quarter, two of which were lost fumbles. The Warriors came within one point of Woodstock on a 72-yard scoring drive. The drive was helped by a pass interference call against the Wood­ stock defense. The drive ended when Love found Rudman again. This time for a 11-yard scoring pass. Love's two point conversion pass attempt fell incomplete with two minutes left in the quarter. With the momentum on their side, the day completing five of seven attempts for 82 yards and two touchdown passes. He gave op one interception. STAFF PHOTO -- WAYNE GAYLORD the Warriors came right back after John Clewis recovered a Woodstock fumble on the Woodstock 38. The Warriors used a running attack until they reached the five-yard line. Love then followed with his second touch­ down pass with a strike to Shaver and the Warriors led 18-13 seconds into the fourth quarter. Love's pass was knocked down on the two point cm- version attempt. The Blue Streaks would not be denied and came right back with a 60 yard scoring drive. Again, Woodstock used a punishing running game to move the ball. The winning touchdown was scored by Marie Rigby on a three yard run with 7:06 left in the game. Bradshaw completed his second pass of the evening to Kevin Brown for two insurance points. Rigby finished the day with 95 yards rushing on 20 attempts. The Warriors came back with a winning touchdown sewing drive attempt. But it ended with an in­ complete pass in the end zone on fourth and five. Woodstock took over and ran out the clock with two crucial first downs. Knights Beat Skyhawks Again For State Berth SCOTT MCCLORY The Johnsburg volleyball team received their second trophy of the year, beating Earlville Thursday to be crowned Sectional champions. They then faced defending state champion Immacualte Conception on Saturday for the super-sectional trophy cm Saturday. The Skyhawks lost 15-8,15-4, and wound up jUSt one garte<4bort of state: Itwtas tbe second straight year the Knights defeated the Skyhawks in the super-sectional ^playoff. The Skyhawks finished with a 16-7 overall record for the season. In the first game of the Earlville match, the Johnsburg squad was strong and consistent. They won the first game by a score erf 15-8 score. Diane Heard led the team with serves with four. Jane Pecucci led the team in sets with six. Heard led all scorers with spikes and kills with five and two respectively. Johnsburg fought hard and wound up on a winning by a slim 16-14. score. Missy Christie led her teammates in serves with four. Heard again led the team with spikes, this time iwth six. Pecucci led the squad in sets with 13. Against Immaculate Conception, it was similiar to a flashback of last year's match. The high school, Lisle, the same; the team the same; the toel of competion the same and score generally the same. Skyhawks gavelt their best effort, the power and consistently again was too much for the Skyhawks. They managed to score eight points in the first game and only four in the second game. In game one Christie had three serves. Heard led all hitters with four spikes, two of which were kills. Theresa Hauck had seven sets for the Skyhawk squad. In the second game, Hauck led all scorers with two serves, three sets and two spikes. Streaks Edge Warriors For Sophomore Crown McHenry Warrior Delia Sannders keeps a slim lead over an opponent daring the sectional meet at Schaumburg. She just missed qualifying for the state meet by three places and 11 seconds. STAFF PHOTO -- MIKE LAMB Girls Miss Top 10 By I' One Place At Sectional SCHAUMBURG -- Last Saturday was a pretty disappointing day all the way around for the Warriors as tile girls' foiled to qualify one individual to the state meet down at Peoria. Delia Saunders came the closest to qualifying. She missed by three plac. in 14th place and 11 seconds. She wi timed at 12:52. The Warriors as a team finished in llth place, just one place from their goal of in the top 10. They had a point total of 276. Maine West won the meet with 61 points. Hoffman Estates at 126, Fremd 150 and Wheeling 201 will join Main West down at Peoria Saturday. Finishing in front of the Warriors were; Palatine, Antioch, New Trier, Glenbrook South, Ubertyville and Hersey. "The girls ran a good race," said Hutchinson. "I always wanted them to run better, but that's a pretty tough competive field. I wanted to be in the top 10. We were close at llth place. "I wanted Delia to qualify. I ex- fhose two (Saunders and l) to qualify. Kelly Brough was the second Warrior to cross the finish line in 29th place. Pam Bradley was next in 60th, Michele Paul 83rd and Debbie Ken­ nedy 93rd. A Proven Energy Saver! G£NUiN| BARB ANSELL It was almost the perfect end to a nearly perfect season for the McHenry Warriors sophomore football team. Friday night brought a close to their winning streak of eight straight games when the Woodstock Blue Streaks, who also went into Friday's game undefeated, edged out the Warrior's 20-14 in the final quarter. Head sophomore Coach Dan Boland has coached the sophomore team the past four years and this year's team produced the best record in his career. "The team put forth a great deal of effort. They consistently worked hard," said Boland. Boland said he stressed fun­ damentals throughout the season. The team focused on improving their blocking, tackling, passing and moving the ball down the field. It was those very fundamentals that kept the McHenry sophomore team going all season and right thru the final seconds of their game against Woodstock. "The sophomores had an excellent defensive line too," said Boland. "Their best game was against Crystal Lake Central where we were ahead by only a point (7-6). We had to rely on our defense to hold onto the game." Boland said defense also played an important part in their game against Woodstock. It was a good game for sophomore quarterback Craig Hill who handed off to Pat Dunne for the Warrior's first touchdown in the first quarter and then Dunne ran the ball in for the two point conversion pass." During the second quarto', Hill intercepted a ; Woodstock pass and returned the ball 35 yards for the Warrior touchdown: and a 14-6 halftime lead. 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