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-PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1984 Sports On the Sideline Dick Rabbitt Warriors win battle, lose Fox Valley track war The Warriors won the battle, but lost the war in the Fox Valley Conference track meet held at Woodstock last Friday evening. The war was the championship, which the Warriors failed to achieve. But the thinclads under coach Dan Boland responded by defeating Crystal Lake South and Jacobs for the third spot. As expected, Crystal Lake Central won the title, with Dundee-Crown finishing second. The rest of the field was a toss up, with the locals coming out on top. Coach Dan Boland was well pleased with his squad. "We are a young team," said Boland, "Central has a lot of veterans, and of course D-C has George Scott." Scott won three individual events - 100, 200 and 400 meter races, plus anchoring a winning relay team. Chris Creutz finished second to Jim Lane of Central in the 3,200 meter run. Mike Lobinsky picked up a second and a third in field events, Jeff Szamlewski finished second in the long jump, the 400 meter relay team finished third and the 3,200 meter relay team finished second. Central won with 153 points, followed by Dundee-Crown with 123. The Warriors were third with 75, South 71, Jacobs 67, Woodstock 40 and Cary-Grove 39. Tonight coach Boland will take his squad to Rockford for the EHSA district meet. This is an almost impossible task this season. Competition will be keen in this meet. East Rockford is one of the state's best teams. They already have the fastest time in the entire country in the 3,200 meter relay in 7:41. The Warriors should gain some valuable experience tonight going against the best in the state, and even the country. The E-Rabs are state favorites, along with defending champion East St. Louis, Danville, Proviso East, Rock Island, Kankakee and Evanston. Brian Wilson's Warrior baseball team will finish the regular season this week, playing Crystal Lake Central two games. The Warriors had their hitting clothes on Saturday in the first game of the twin bill. They pounded out 12 hits in the 10-4 victory. Jeff Schuster did a fine job for the first three innings, and Kevin Moore came in and pitched the rest of the way to gain the victory. The Warriors dropped the second game 6-5. The Warriors, like the teams in majors, need pitching. They can hit the ball, but have to find someone to get the other team out. Anyway, its high school baseball and in­ teresting to watch, and to second guess. It's a lot of fun. Pat Wirtz has his Lady Warriors on a roll. Coming out of the pack, the Warriors find themselves in third place, a long way from the cellar a few weeks ago. A big double dip win last Saturday over Cary-Grove had to be a good tonic for the Ladies this week in their two games with Woodstock. The Warriors have shown vast improvement as the season progressed this season. With all the "if s" in athletics, the Lady Warriors could find themselves tied for the championship by the time you read this column. Let's hope the "if'takesplace and the Warriors share a championship this year. Crystal Lake South for the sixth straight time, and the only champion in the Fox Valley, won the tennis title. Credit has to be given to the Gators for their fine play not only this season, but the past five as well. The Warriors of Gary Gray, a young team, finished fourth. Like all Warrior teams this year, the tennis squad is a young underclass team competing against juniors and seniors. It's a little too much to ask of these young people. However, in number two singles, Scott Smith defeated Gary Stone of Cary-Grove, and in number three singles, Matt Roy defeated Tom Cleske of Cary-Grove. Both matches were for third place. Next week we hope to give you the IHSA athletic proposal for the various seasons for the coming year. Girls basketball may be affected, swimming is another question mark, and who knows what else the IHSA may come up with to make up with to make high school athletic directors get a few more gray hairs. - EARLY SPRING SPECIAL- I am TANNING SESSION I WITH PURCHASE OF 5 SESSIONS I I (Offer good thru 5/31 /84*Limit one wr person TANFASTIC Qsumtam PARLOR** 3100 W. LINCOLN*MCH E N R Y m o m I f t V T O I M f l f m N 3 4 4 5 0 0 6 PATCH DOLLS (No purchase necessary) jys 1 f HOUSEWIFE SPCCIAf TANNING SESSION ONLY Monday-Thursday , 11:30AM -2:30PM J (GOOD THRU 5/31/84) I WITH COUPON ONLY | LIMIT ONE PER PERSON I »0I vfUDwiiM^BS.0 • .• .. • Central + Tigers maul Warriors 8-2 CRYSTAL LAKE - Crystal Lake Central broke away from a McHenry 1-0 lead with three runs in the second inning and went on to defeat the Warriors 8- 2 last Wednesday. The Tigers scored six unan­ swered runs in what McHenry coach Brian Wilson called a "rough night for the Warriors." The loss leaves McHenry with a 4-7 Fox Valley Conference record and a 7-8 overall mark. With one game left on the schedule, the loss leaves McHenry in a bad position to move up in the standings. FOX VALLEY CONFERENCE Baseball Standings McHenry's Gretchen Fuiava attempts to score on the pass ball, but the Woodstock pitcher, Lisa i&mm "• mml Plaindealer photo by Sam Natrop Palmquist, is right there to put the tag on the sliding Warrior. The umpire called Fuiava out . Conf. AH W L W L Dundee-Crown 9 3 16 6 CL Central 7 4 13 6 Jacobs 6 5 .10 7 CL South 6 5 9 10 Woodstock 5 6 12 7 McHenry 4 7 7 8 Cary-Grove 2 9 4 14 Lady Warriors edge Woodstock WOODSTOCK - The McHenry Softball team needed a little help to have any kind of chance at the FVC title, but last Tuesday the Lady Warriors failed to receive that help. McHenry won its game 9-8 over Woodstock, but Crystal Lake Central also won, defeating Dundee-Crown 15-5. Second place Cary-Grove defeated Crystal Lake South 12- 0. That leaves Crystal Lake Central assured of the FVC title, while the Trojans would have to lose Thursday, and the Warriors would have to win its last game against Woodstock for a share of second place. McHenry is in third place with a 7-4 record. The Lady Warriors will host Johnsburg Saturday in the first round of the regionals. Game tiipe is 10 a.m. McHenry had to come from behind and score two runs in the top of the seventh inning to defeat the Blue Streaks. Patty Johnson's fly ball dropped down the left-field line knocking in Renee Mezzano and Greta Larsen. While happy with the win, Warrior coach Pat Wirtz wasn't too happy with the three errors committed by his squad. Woodstock also committed three errors. "Those three errors almost cost us the game," said Wirtz. "We just didn't hit as well as in the past." Wirtz's Warriors did come through with some timely hits when needed. Cindy Gaines came through with one in the sixth inning. She hit a rbi triple which gave McHenry a 7-6 lead. In the seventh, Greta Larsen singled, and Deanne Martin bunted safely for a single. Mezzano replaced Martin at first as a pinch-runner to set up the winning hit by Johnson. Gaines led all hitters with a three-for-three performance and three rbi's, hitting a double and a triple. Monique Betan- court and Greta Larsen both had two hits each for McHenry. Sarah Prust was the winning pitcher for the Warriors, going the complete seven innings. She only gave up five hits and struckout nine. "With a split we still have a shot at tying for third," said Wilson. His Warriors had that shot in the FVC final with the Tigers Thursday. The Warriors will start regional play on Tuesday, traveling to Rockford- Auburn. "We didn't play too well. We only had two legitimate base hits," added Wilson. The Warriors only had four hits on the day. Kevin Moore started for McHenry, lasting five innings. Jeff Schuster finished up. The Warriors scored first after Ross Vehring singled and scored on a double by Corey Scott. Vehring then scored McHenry's second run of the day with his first homerun of the season in the seventh inning. , Central scored five runs in the fourth inning to wrap up the win. Steve Mfiilqrison picked up the win for the Tigers. Centerfielder Todd Howell was Central's biggest spark. He drove in five of the Tiger runs. The Central win assured the Tigers of second place for the season. Nothing stops Carlton from winning races By Mike Lamb Plaindealer sports editor It seems like nothing can stop Dennis Carlton from winning at Wilmot speedway these days. The 28-year-old has gone off to win all four of his races the last two weekends, and nothing, so much as being forced off the track has stopped the McHenry resident. During the first weekend of racing, Carlton broke the 15-lap feature race with a, time of 5:08.21. His friend, also from McHenry, held the record last year. Carlton also won his heat race. Last weekend, Carlton again won both the feature and his heat, but this time he put a little more drama into the win. While trying to pass the first place car during the feature, he ran into some trouble. While passing, Carlton and the first car collided, forcing both off the track. "I was trying to pass the first place car from the outisde," explained Carlton. "We were coming up to a lap car, and I don't think he (the driver in the first place car) knew I was on the outside. We both skidded off the track." Several cars passed by. To the amazement of many, who saw Carlton's car fly into the air six feet, he was able to gain control and get back into the race. Carlton managed to make up the distance and pass up the lead cars to capture the race. Carlton just chalked up his good start to luck. "It's a lot of luck. If your luck goes bad, your racing can go just as bad." His luck, or winning, or whatever you want to call it, might force him to slow down his car. Because of his success, and the success of others, Wilmot officials are thinking about changing some of the qualifications of the spectator division. Carlton will either have to jump to a higher class, or make the adjustments. "They would like to get everybody going at the same speed. If everybody isn't going at the same speed, somebody is going to get hurt," said Carlton. "They say we're scaring some of the people who are just starting out. I don't blame them. Continued on page It la SPRING IS ONE OF THE BEST TIMES TO DETHATCH! ORIENTAL GROCERIES* ARTS* SIFTS : [nil 'r ONLY *5" PER TANNING SESSIOIUtf$ CABBAGE MTA! / / • i n Thatch Removal Is An 1 \ • Important Part Of every Lawn Care Proqram 1 'r 1 Call For FREE Estimate (KliATHi; JLAWX CARJE 4 5 N . 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