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TOMIK points, whQe Crystal U took the nmaHp posit wooqrock tallowed with Gnve 23 McHenry 22, Qmm 14 and Jacobs 9. I "I thought with the received, we would have pld Gray. "But as soon i Winning homecoming for McHenry PAOB SS • PLAINDE ALER • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1*3 jVehring's 78 helps goffers advance put uicii iiuiiua iu 11. v Well his squad put their $0 it at Huntley's Pin McHenry Warrior golf coach Chuck Cud a has said all season long his squad can do it if they put their minds to it. minds ey s Pinecrest Country Club last Thursday. The Warriors placed among the top Ihree in the Jacobs regional and advanced to the Crown-Dundee sectional Tuesday also at Pinecrest Country Club. McHenry tied with Crown- Dundee for second place with a score of 324. However, McHenry's fifth man scored etter than Crown-Dundee's so the second place goes to McHenry. v Crystal Lake South won the tectional title with a score of 311. I Other scorers were; Harrington 326, Larkin 334, Canr-Grove 335, Jacobs 342, Elgin 343, Wauconda 348, Crystal Lake Central 351, Lake jSiuich 387 and Woodstock 409. ^Chris Vehring led the Warriors by placing fourth toeda&t with a 78. No other pfarrior placed in the top 10, ivhich leaves Vehring the only *7arrior able to aualify for the ite meet individually at little hope. Let's hope they keep it up," said Cuda. McHenry knocked 11 strokes off its score from the Fox Valley meet held at Plum Tree National last week Tuesday. Tom Neumann was the second top Warrior golfer with an 81. Kevin Lange and Bob Gende were right behind with 85's. Despite the fourth medalist, Cuda said Vehring was a little dissastified with himself. "He had a tripled bogey on the last hole.' He said he was 4 disgusted with himself after missing a putt. But I told him he can't do that at sectionals," said Cuda. "He's in good shape right shoots. par and we'll Schwarz of Crystal Lake captured top medalist with a 75, while Dave LQpnon of Barrington took vBeeoqd with 76. Dennis Hubbard «of Wauconda was third also with fTB. •The scores seem to be down, which leaves a now. If he Neumann comes long, come through." Cuda admitted that Neumann is suffering a slight slump "He is really capable of shooting 75. Maybe Tuesday will be his day," Only two teams will advance from sectionals to the state meet, while 10 individuals can qualify. A total of 40 teams are still alive in the state. After Tuesday, only 10 will survive. If everything goes well, Cuda says his team is capable of being one of those 10. All four on the squad must come through, including Gende and Lange. "Both are capable of shooting around the low 80's. If Vehring or Neumann could come through with a 71 or 72 we'll be in good shape." * OFF TO THE RACES -- is Mike Mwinac as he made Fox Valley history by Setting the longest run from scrimmage record. Milinac broke loose for a 91-yard STAFF PHOTO WAYNI GAVIOKO touchdown run for the Warriors first score in the first quarter. Milinac breaks loose against Trojans Warrior netters cut to size in FVC By Mike Lamb MCHENRY - At about 10:15 p.m. Friday night a celebration was Held in the middle of McCracken Field. A crowd of McHenry High School students, teachers, parents, football players and coaches hugged each other, while jumping up and down. Even McHenry Plaindealer sportswriter and West Campus teacher Dick Rabbitt passed out victory cigars. No, McHenry didn't win a championship. But it did win a homecoming game. That was wortli celebrating about because the warriors haven't won a ? CRYSTAL LAKE -- McHenry Tapis coach Gary Gray has dncribed Us team as a snake in the fast all season long. Well, Gary Gray's report from the Fax Valley DIM held in Oystal Lake Friday «ndJWirday wasn't good for the lwmiwm got ub," said mowed down by four enroute to a fifth place. Crystal wm the meet with 51.2 South 31, Cary- 22, Dwdee- 9. the draw we would have a shot," "But as soon as we lost in the dotfcles, I knew we had no chance," said Gray. Graywas most disappointed in the number one doubles team That pair of Sarah Prust and Sara Bird lost both of their first two matches and finished the meet with no points. Ptust and Bird lost to Cary-Grove 3-6,7-6,34 and lost to Jacobs 6-3,6-1. "I told them (number one doubles team) let's hope you got the bad ones out of your system hoe," said Gray. Despite the fifth place, Gray said he was overall happy with the way his Warriors played. The rest of the squad took most pleasant surprise, ac­ cording to Gray, was the play of freshman. Gen Haner at number three singles. It was her first varsity start ever. She beat her Woodstock opponent, Meari Kies 6-2, 6-1, but lost to (Continued on pog* 21) )mecoming game since 1972 / The Cary-Grove Trojans were the victims, losing to 'the Warriors 20-14.. The loss leaves the Trojans winless in the Fox Valley Conference with a 0-3 record and 2-4 overall. McHenry evens its record at 2-2 in the FVC and 3-3 overall. "This is the firstf one (homecoming win) since I've > been here. It was a hard fought victory against a good team,*7 McHenry coach Joe Schlender said. Tailback Mike Milinac led the winning rally in the fourth quarter. The 5-8 190 pound back scored two touchdowns on runs of 91 yards and 19 and finished with 191 yards on the night. His 91-yard jaunt broke an FVC record of 86 yards previously held by Crown's Bob Grant in 1981. "We just didn't stoi when we had to ," said Trojan coach Mike Buck. "Milinac is a good back. Milinac breaking for those long gainers really hurt us." Schlender was also pleased with the brilliant play by his tailback. "Mike (Milinac) is an exceptional back. He ran around people and through people tonight," said Schlender. ' Milinac's 91-yarder came on McHenry's second possession in the first quarter. The Warriors started the drive on its own 20- yard line. An illegal procedure penalty, along with the Trojan defense throwing quarterback Craig Hill for a four-yard loss and Milinac for a 2-yard loss, put McHenry in the hole on third down. Milinac grabbed £he hand-off from Hill and shot through a hole up the middle. He sped past the Trojan secondary, creating a foot-race. A sprinter in track, Milinac had little trouble winning the race to the goal line. Hill's pass attempt for the two-point conversion fell incomplete and the Warriors had an early 6-0 lead. Cary-Grove started on its own 26-yard line after the Warrior kick. An eight-yard run and a five-yard run by Dave Stauffer, as well as a 10-yard run by Dean Britt moved the Trojans to its own 49-yard line. That set up Matt Erickson's long touchdown run. top them Erickson found an open seam The third qi id Trojan up the middle just like Milinac. Cary-Grove and up the middle just like Milinac. and broke loose past the secondary for the 51-vard touchdown. Darren Dehmlow's kick put Cary-Grove ahead 7-6. The Warriors came right back with a scoring drive to go ahead again. A four-yard gain by Milinac set up tne Warriors on the 34-yard line. Hill then threw a deep side­ line pass to tight-end Corey Scott for a 35-yard gain which put the Warriors on the Trojan 35-yard line. Two plays later, Hill again found Scott for a nine-yard gain and the Warriors were on the 19. Milinac took the hand-off and ran the 19 yards for his second touchdown. But Milinac was stopped by the Trojans on the two-point conversion attempt and the Warriors held a 12-7 lead. Schlender pointed out that Milinac's two long gainers was a team combination of Milinac and the offensive line. . "The plays were executed well by the line," said Schlender. "The line just did a fantastic job blocking for Mike. Milinac iust ran past the line and it was an untouched footrace," The Warriors threatened for a third touchdown in the half on their next possession. McHenrv drove to the Trojan two-yard line, thanks to a 38-yard pass from Hfll to Scott. But the Trojan defense stiffened up, stopping fullback Jim Shaver right at the goal line on fourth down. third quarter was all Cary-Grove and Britt. By either or running the ball lself, Britt led the Trojans to its second touchdown of the evening. Britt capped off the 82- yard drive witn a 12-yard scoring strike to Schwartz with 58 seconds left in the quarter. Again Dehmlow kicked the point-after for a 14-12 Cary lead. At this point, it looked like the Trojans had the momentum on their side with Britt leading the attack. Buck was happy to see Britt running his offense again. "He makes things explosive. He . did a nice job for us," said ' 3uck. Despite the loss, Buck was happy with the entire Trojan team. "The kids did eome back. We had another drive going, but two penalties stopped us. That shffted the momentum. It was a typical McHenry - Cary-Grove game. Last year we won a barn­ burner." r The fourth quarter was all McHenry, with Milinac teaming up with Shaver. A 22-yard run by Milinac and a 28-yard run by Shaver set up the winning touchdown. Shaver finished up with a three-yard run into the endzone. * .. Hill found Scott open again, to successfully make the two-point conversion a 20-14 lead. The Trojans still had six minutes to come back, but the^ two penalties Buck pointed too and tne Warrior defense stopped and drive. Warriors breeze past County, Hawks 6th CRYSTAL LAKE - How tough is the McHenry boys' cross country team ? Well, iust ask somebody who should know, like maybe Johnsburg's coach, Bob Texidore. "McHenry is looking real tough," said Texidore. Texidore watched the Warriors completely runi away with the McHenry County title. Even the Crystal Lake Central Tigers, who were gunning to overtake the Warriors, completely flopped against the Warriors. McHenry won the meet with a 25-46 edge over the Tigers. Crystal Lake South followed with 89, Woodstock 118, Jacobs 145, Johnsburg 149, Cary-Grove 150 and Harvard 228. And while McHenry boys were celebrating a county team title, the Lady Warriors' Delia Saunders was celebrating an individual County title. All this happened when McHenry coach Bill Hut­ chinson had the least faith in his team because of homecoming. "This really was a big win," Huthinson said. "We didn't look good all week and I didn't think the kids were up to it. If we were going to get beat, I thought this would be the week we would get beat." But his Warriors didn't get beat. That's because after Central Pat McDaniel crossed the finish line, four Warrior runners followed him consecutively. McDaniel won the meet in a time of 16:22. McHenry's Chris Creutz followed in 16:38, Steve Carby was third in 16:41, Brian Wright fourth in 16:51 and Marty Koleno was fifth in 17:00. Terry Harth was the Warrior fifth man in 11th place timed at 17:22. Because of illness, the Lady Warriors only had four girls able to run, so they couldn't place as a team. Saunders made up for that with her title. She sprinted in timed in 13:21. Pam Bradley was ninth 4n 14:08, Dee Paulson 41st 16:37 and Martin Steinkopf 16:45. Hutchinson was just elated over Saunders per­ formance. "Delia ran a super race." aJohnsburg's top finisher was Mike Lawrence in 17th place with a time of 17:59. Pete Bjerning followed in 18:08, Jeff Nichols 18:58, Bill Schmitz 20:27 and Mark Widhalm 20:38. "Our fifth man finished 50th, that really hurt us," said Texidore. "We need to pack up a little more. The next few weeks we have to work on that." PHOTO! BY WAVNI GAYIORO Wright lead the Warrior pack. Only Central's Pat ' McDaniel was ahead of them. SOMETHING.TO SMILE ABOUT -- Delia Saunders of McHenry shows her happiness as she is just 20 yards from capturing the McHenry County girls title. ' ; > *<••• • ' • - Perfect duel season The McHenry Warrior boys' cross country team finished its 1983 duel season with a perfect 9-0 record with a 20- 37 win over Woodstock last Thursday. The duel win was also the 19th in ». row and .;ne 35th in the 1&:. three years. Steve Carby took the hridttal title with a time 16:06. Brian Wright was second in 16:17, Marty Koleno fourth 16:35 and Chris Creutz fifth 16:37. The Lady . Running Warriors lost 23-41. Delia Saunders was the first lady to finish, in 12:22. Pam Bradley was fourth in 12:46, Martina Steindopf 11th in 12:15, Caryn Beslow 12th in 16:37 and Deanna Paulson 14th in 16:08. Three McHenry Warrior cross country runners iw the loneliness of being on top. Near the one mile mark, Steve Carby (left), Chris Creutz and Brian