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PACE 1» - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER t. IM mpmrn m f m m m let's talk Johnsburg's Jim Hopp looks for some running room cbring the Sky hawks last game of the season against % STAFF FHOTO-MHCf lAMS the Grant Bulldogs. Hopp rushed for 53 yards on the game. Johnsburg Award night The School Booster Sports Award Johnsburg High Club Fall Night is scheduled for next Monday at 7 p.m. All athletes, oarents and friends are invited to attend. Each fall sport will be honored in the auditorium portion of the program. A social hour will follow in the cafetorium. Winter Soccer program A winter soccer program will be held at Parkland Junior High School on Saturday mornings starting Jan. 14. The program will Biddy Basketball run six weeks. For further information, call the Department of Paries and Recreation at 344-3300. The Biddy Basketball program will be represented this winter bv the Parks and Recreation Department. Children in grades second through sixth grade will drill on basketball basics such as dribbling, passing, pivoting and shooting. Registration is being taken now by the department. Dan Boland will be teaching this class on Saturday mornings over at the McHenry Junior High School. The first class wul begin on Jan. 14 and run for six weeks. For further in- fomation, call the depart­ ment at 344-3300. Skiing trip planned A skiing trip to Alpine Valley Ski Resort is being sponsored by the McHenry Department of Parks and Recreation. The trip is scheduled to take off at 8 a.m. from City Hall on Friday, Feb. 24. Interested people must sign up at City Hall in advance m order to reserve a seat on the bus. The bus will return > to City Hall at 6:30 p.m. * Grant deflates Johnsburg playoff hopes with late rally By Mike Lamb JOHNSBURG - The John­ sburg Skyhawks played 36 quarters worth of football this season, but it will be the very last quarter which will stick out in the players and coaches minds the most. The Skyhawks carried a 17-7 lead going into the fourth quarter, against the Grant Bulldogs. All Johnsburg had to do was hold that lead ana a IHSA playoff berth would be sewed up. Instead, the Skyhawks watched Grant return an interception for one touchdown and quarterback Jim Taylor pass for a second. The Johnsburg season ended in a 21-17 defeat and playoff plans wiped-out. The Skyhawk season ends with a record wins and two losses in the west Suburban Conference overall. It was Johnsburg's first winning season since the school's inception in 1978. Grant also finishes with a 5-2 NWSC record, 5-4 overall. Johnsburg and Grant end up sharing second place in the NWSC, with Marian holding the conference title. "It'£ a shame," said John­ sburg coach Randy Oberembt. "Not to take anything away from the Grant athletes, but our players played their hearts out. But that's football. Sometimes a ball will take a funny bounce on you." The ball took a funny bounce for the Skyhawks more than just once. The big bounce, was a 36- yard pass completed by Taylor with Johnsburg holding onto a slim 17-14 lead with less than two minutes left in the same. On the play before, John­ sburg's Bob Bentz had sacked Taylor for a 16-yard loss. Grant was facing fourth down, with 22 yards needed for the first, on the Grant 19-yard line. Taylor went back to pass and just threw it up towards one of his receivers ana several Johnsburg defenders two passes before that play. The first pass also went for a touch­ down. Johnsburg had dominated statistically all day. The Skyhawks outgained the Bulldogs 339 yards to 206, with Johnsburg credited with 19 first downs to Grant's four. Johnsburg's Jim Bentz rushed for 127 yards, and finished with 1,149 yards for the season. Jim Hopp rushed for 53 yards and finished with 757 yards. Quar­ terback Jeff Jayko completed eight of 17 passes for 115 yards. Several mistakes, however, possessions after With 2:15 left in the; Sroved costly for the Skyhawks. ohnsburg w lve times, stopping was caught for ohnsburg holding nv several potential scoring drives. According to Oberembt, five ce, 7-2 finally fell into the hands of calls. regta finally Grant's Dave Rowden on the Johnsburg 45-yard line and a first down. game a ̂ A total of six passes later, anything Grant scored the winning touch- kids "5 down with 18 seconds left in the p,UoK game. * "I felt that was the key point that hurt us," Oberembt said. "It was turning point of the game. It was an unusual play." Tavlor had onlv comoleted "We had a number of op-" portunties to score and put the game away. You can't take anything away from the Grant kids," said Oberembt. Probably the most damaging mistake was a Jayko in­ terception with 7:38 left in the game. George Shields of the Bulldogs picked off the pass and returned it 68 vards for the touchdown. That made the score 17-14.% Both teams traded after that score, s game, Grant regained possession after a Jayko pass fell incomplete on a fourth and two play on the 27- yard line of the Bulldogs. On Grants first play, Taylor's pitch aided up behind Rowden and fumbled. But the ball rolled out of bounds for a two-yard loss. A six-yard run by Chris Gast was wiped out by the Bentz' sack. Then came Taylor's 36-yard miracle pass, with the ball resting on the Skyhawk 45-yard line, Taylor got hot and connected onpasses of 12, 7, 7, 17, 17 and 4. The last was fumbled by Grant's Lutz, but John Laskowski regtained it for the Bulldogs on the two-yard line. On the next play, Taylor again found Lutz, this time for the winning touch­ down. The Skyhawks had 18 seconds to comeback with, but two Jayko passes fell incoiaplete and a sack sunk any chances. Johnsburg opened up the ;ame with a 80-yard scoring ssion of the game. A seven-yard pass by Jayko to Tom Meehan and a 21- yard run by Bentz set up the score. It was Bentz again for the score, on a 18-yard sweep into the end-zone with 7:02 left in the first quarter. Mike Majercik kicked the point-after and Johnsburg haa a 7-0 lead. That lead was short lived. On Grant's first possession after a Johnsburg punt, Taylor threw a short pass to Lutz, who broke loose and ran 61-yards for the tying touchdown with 24 seconds left on the clock. Johnsburg regained the lead in the second quarter. The Skyhawks used the bruising Northwest Suburban Final gai ari boys football Marian Johnsburg Grant Marengo Lake Zurich Round Lake Grayslake Wauconda W L W 7 0 9 2 2 3 4 5 2 7 L 0 2 4 4 6 7 7 8 running attack typical all season to move the ball 79 yards to the Grant six-yard line. From there, Majercik kicked a field goal for a 10-7 lead. Johnsburg carried that lead into halftime. The Skyhawks built up their lead late in the third quarter. On a first-and-10 play at midfield, Jayko connected with Meehan again, this time for a 26-yaxft gain. Four plays later, Jayfao again connected with Meehan, this time for a nine-yarder to tfife one-yard line. Jayko finished off the drive by taking it in himself for tlfe touchdown. 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