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He and Ross Vehring were the only Warriors STAFF PHOTO -- WAYNE GAYLORD Budget Cutting Machete Creeping Closer Bear Curve Ball Too Much For McHenry Don Berrelez gave the McHenry Warrior baseball team some ex­ perience they never had before. Berrelez'showed the Warriors what a curve ball can do. What the Warriors found out, it sometimes can be tough to hit. Berrelez curve ball helped the Lake Zurich Bears defeat McHenry 7-1 last Friday. The Bear pitcher only allowed two hits and struckout eight Warrior batters. "We just didn't hit the ball very well," said Brian Wilson, coach of the Warriors. "We struckout eight times and only walked three times. "Lake Zurich is a pretty good team. ' I think their pitcher was hitable -- we just didn't hit. That's where ex­ perience comes in. Not seeing a curve ball all year long takes its toll." The only Warrior score came in the first inning. Bauml led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrafice fly. Bauml went to third on an error by Berrelez. He scored on a pass ball. Mike Podpora and Ross Vehring were the only successful hitters. Vehring's hit was a double. Lake Zurich tied the game in the fourth inning with a run and took the lead in the fifth with two runs. The Bears added four more in the sixth. Starting pitcher Tim Evans took the loss for the Warriors. The Warriors are now 2-2 overall and Lake Zurich is 4-4. McHenry' game with Grant Thursday was rained out and Mon­ day's scheduled game with Jacobs at McCracken Field was postponed because of the cold weather. That game was to be made up Tuesday. Johnsburg Preview Baseball And Softball Teams Set For Sunshine PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY.^PRIL Weather this spring has done its best so far to postpone many spring sports. The softball and baseball teams at Johnsburg have been no exception to this. Both teams are looking for some good weather to get their season underway. GIRLSSOFTBALL Unlike the rest of the Johnsburg spring sports teams, the girls softball is the smallest team in five years. Skyhawk coach Bob Schmitt said the number of players could still change, "Although this is the smallest number of girls I have ever started out with, we have 25 girls on the junior varsity team that could be moved up if I Meyers. "In order to earn a spot they've had to be good and take ad­ vantage of the opportunities to stay good once they get a position." Meyers says although the Skyhawks have faced teams like Grant and Round Lake and done well in previous matches, it is hard to really predict the Skyhawks outcome in the con­ ference. "I hope we will continue to do well against Grant and Round Lake," said Meyers, "but when we met before it was a non-conference game, and both teams seldom used their best pit­ chers. "But this team is a good team to coach, and I think their hard work will pay off," predicted Meyers. 6W SDOBIOi^ rxitb H- u> *l|Ui<5UU)" Round Lake: Cut a number of coaches from the athletic staff. Now, add Grayslake, which dropped a good number of coaches last year, and you have a serious situation in the NWSC. So far, Johnsburg hasn't felt the slashing crunch as hard, but has kept the purse string tight. According to Johnsburg Atletic Director Jim Meyers, any decisions on the athletic budget will be made at the next school board meeting. He added he doesn't expect any cuts. Even if Johnsburg doesn't expect any cuts in the athetic budget, they will have problems in I can remember when the warning was given, no matter where you lived -- school athletics are in trouble. Now it's hitting home like a sudden illness. Horrifying cuts are being made of athletic budgets. And the large machete is getting closer than the average person realizes. It's like a cancer, spoiling the fun for high school athletes and proud parents. The cancer has reached the door step of the Fox Valley area. The latest victim was the Northwest Suburban Conference. Failing referendums in Lake Zurich and Wauconda has meant slashing cuts in their athletic budgets. Lake Zurich: dropped all freshmen sports. Dropped all junior varsity volleyball, girls basketball and football. Dropped half of the snccu schedule" Cropped 50 percent of non- conference schedule in all sports. Let go the wrestling coach, plus three other coaches. Total savings - $40,000. Wauconda: Dropped everything except varsity sports and set limits on the number of coaches. scheduling with Lake Zurich and Wauconda not fielding freshmen and sophomore teams. McHenry's Athletic Director Joe Schlender reported the Fox Valley Conference and McHenry have been very fortunate so far, but they aren't immune to the economic problems. "Many of us are at the point were we are not getting any more, but not getting any less either. We're real fortunate," said Schlender. "We are being real careful how we spend our money. We are buying more prudently." Mike Lamb Sports Editor The Fox Valley has been hit quite hard in two particular schools. Woodstock High School has been hit the hardest. Last year, the Woodstock school board told the athletic board they would only give them $20,000 to work with. Now, if anybody knows about the costs of running an athletic program, they would realize $20,000 is a spit in the bucket. The positive part about the Woodstock situation is what Woodstock backers have been doing to keep athletics alive at the school. If an athlete at Woodstock High School wants to take part in a particular sport, he has to pay a $30 charge to the athletic department. That's $30 a sport and $20 at the junior high level. The rest of the needed money is raised by a group of concerned parents and other concerned people called theBackersClub. Also, the department gets all the gate receipts and the athletes also raise money. The school and the Badcers Club have held walk-a-thons and other fund-raising activities. Woodstock's Athletic Director, James Shipley, said he "feels like a fund raising director" at times. He added nobody likes the present situation, but they are keeping a positive out-look upon it. "The alternative is we don't have anything," said Shipley. The amazing part of the whole Woodstock situation, 62 more students have taken part in the athletic program this year than last year. That is despite the $30 charge. 3llUj Jacobs High School in Algonquin is the other FVC higfeSchool hit quite nhrd by the economic time». "We are having the same problems we've had for a long time," said Tom Miller, Jacobs athletic director. "We have learned to live with it It depends on the state aid. If the govenor keeps cutting state aid, we will have problems." "The people at the Central office planned for this pretty good. We will have to pull the purse strings tight Although no real cuts have been made of the athletic program, there will be no real expansion either. Transportation and equipment costs have been cut down as far they can. Miller has a warning to all the schools in the FVC. "It's going to hit everybody. I don't think anybody is immune. The Crystal Lake Schools are going to feel the pinch also." Rockford Is Back In The NSFL The Northern States Football League an­ nounced that the Rock- ford Rams were acquired by Micahael a n d K a t h r y n Burkholder of Rockford. The McHenry County Red Devils is a new team in the NSFL. The league will now play a 12 game schedule' with Rockford filling in all bye games of the previous schedule. The opening game for the Red Devils will be June 25 at the Harvard High School at 7:30. The season will end on Sept. 17 and the championship on Oct 1. According to Red Devil officials, the Rockford entry gives McHenry a natural rival. A Red Devils players, meeting will be held on Saturday at the Red Devils Den in Harvard at 1 p.m. Players have been invited to come and meet the new coaching staff and other people of the new organization. A third coach will also be named at the meeting. Runners Club To Hold First Run The City of McHenry Department of Parks and Recreation has helped establish a McHenry runners club for area residents. This family orientated club has established its meeting date on the .second Monday of each THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER NEWSPAPER month at 7:30 p.m. at McHenry City Hall. The club will be of­ ficially known as the McHenry Road Run­ ners. The first get aquainted "Fun Run" has been scheduled for Sunday at McHenry High School West Campus. Runners can meet at the south parking lot at 4 p.m. Thi6 club is open to beginners and ex­ perienced runners of all ages. Runners will run with other people in the community on their own level. Membership in­ formation is available at McHenry City Hall and will also be available at the fun run . on April 24. a very powerful icaiu «uiu so we must hold the other teams down defensively." The weather related problems seem to be more significant for the softball team. Schmitt feels that because the team has not had much of an op­ portunity to practice outside many of the girls have not developed an on- field team feeling. "We haven't even had the entire team together for a practice in almost two weeks," said Schmitt. "So many of the girls are playing out of positions and are finding it difficult to sometimes work together. Schmitt says one of the biggest problems the team will face is playing four or five games a week (because of rained-out games) and only having a few substitutes. "The pitchers will especially be affected," Schmitt pointed out. "This may force me to lode for a third pit­ cher very soon." • The Lady Skyhawk softball team hopes to reach a goal of a .500 season record. Schmitt believes the six returning players will help in achieving this goal. Among the six returning players are two juniors. Kathy Butler, who was a varsity letterman in her freshman year, returns to the pitching position. Joining her is Michelle Swartzloff, who not only fills in as pitcher, but can also start in the infield. BOYS BASEBALL Skyhawk boys baseball coach Jim Meyers is more than enthusiastic about this year's team of players. Not only does he find himself with a roster of 21 guys, but he is optimistic about their season. "I'm really looking forward to coaching this team," said Meyers. "The guys worked very hard and very seriously throughout the entire pre­ season. "With so many guys competing for individual positions, it has made everyone work even harder, "added McHenry Takes Own Quadrangular It was the battle of the singles at the McHenry tennis courts Saturday. Rain and snow fell upon the McHenry quadrangular, shortening the annual event to singles com­ petition. All six singles matches were completed. When the singles competition en­ ded, McHenry had edged out John­ sburg for the title 20 to 18. Schaum- burg was third with 13 and Marengo scored.nine. Dan Kieraan, Johnsburg number one singles player, edged out Scott Rhode of McHenry 7-3 to take number one singles. Kiernan is undefeated on the season. Gary Gray, coach of McHenry, said, "neither one was as sharp as they will be in a couple of weeks." Chris Stumbris is also undefeated, taking the number two singles championship. Stumbris defeated Paul Hendrixson erf Johnsburg 8-2, and Rich Anderson of Marengo 9-1. Stumbris is now 4-0-1 on the season. Number four and number five singles were also captured by McHenry. Brad Salman defeated Jeff Guik of Johnsburg 11-9, ScOtt Scherer of Marengo 10-0 and Kirk Geringen of Schaumburg 9-1. At number five, Kevin Burgess defeated Jim Owen of Johnsburg 9-1, Jim Stuntz of Marengo 9-1, and Rob Veraney of Schaumburg 8-2. Scott McClory was Johnsburg's only other first place finisher. 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