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PAGE 20 - PLAlNbEALER- FRIDAY, MAY 2S, IMi *Mt r? Simplicity* Summer Sizzler Sale SNAPPER I ItsASnapWHhASnmpper. Second place at County ends Warrior track season Coach Dan Boland's McHenry High Warrior track team finished a distant second to Crystal Lake Central in the McHenry County Track Meet held Monday at Crystal Lake South. l^ie Tigers won the meet with 126 points, while the Warriors picked up the necessary points for a second place finish. With no state qualifiers from last week's meet at Rockford, the Warriors can hang up their equipment for the season. Coach Boland was well pleased with his squad on the season. They are young and gained valuable experience If the squad improves next season as it did this season, the Warriors will again be a team to reckon with in the conference, county and should qualify some athletes to state. Brian Siudak, the fine weightman from Johnsburg, won the county shot put title with a toss of 49-6. He was the only area winner in the meet. •••• Brian Wilson's Warriors were to take to the road on Tuesday to take on Rockford Auburn in the IHSA baseball tourney. The game was postponed until Wednesday, thus giving Mike Lamb and yours truly another day of rest. We hope to attend on Wed­ nesday. The Warriors, at this time, have no place on the schedule to complete the suspended game with Central that was called last Friday. With the state tourney now in session, it is an almost impossible task to complete conference games. With the con­ ference crown already decided in favor of Dundee-Crown, it really makes no sense to play a game with no meaning. But (me never knows what these high school coaches will do next to get in a game. •••• Pat Wirtz's McHenry High School Lady Warriors are on a roll. They have won six straight, including a 8-2 win over Johnsburg in the Grant Regional last Saturday morning. The Warriors, after a very slow start, came alive and wound up with a 8-4 FVC record, one game behind the co-leaders Crystal Lake Central and Cary- Grove. I know the popular coach is looking back in the first few games of the season and doing a bit of second guessing of his Warrior The IHSA is trying to come with a standardized calendar for the future. Thanks to Warrior Athletic Director Joe Schlender, we have been able to gefWfeTatest information. Probably the main concern is to free up the Assemblv Hall in Champaign to allow the University of Illinois to host an NCAA basketball game. As we all know, there are big bucks in hosting a game. Just ask the University of Kentucky. Aside from that matter, it makes sense as to what the IHSA is trying to accomplish for their member schools. The calendar would begin the first week of July beginning with week one. This would allow the IHSA to put tourney dates on the basic week every year. (It would sure help athletic directors in their schedules.) It would give the member schools distinct three sport seasons - fall, winter and spring. Talk is that both boys and girls basketball seasons would be cut short by a week or two (Ken Ludwig will be in his glory on this). Because of lacking attendance in both boys and girls basketball tourneys, the girls tourney would be moved ahead of the boys. This is sensible, as the girls tourney is really lacking interest in competing with the NCAA college tourneys. It will also balance the sport season for both boys and girls. There may be some changes (gymnastics and swimming may be switched), but all in all it will be for the good of the athlete. As Joe Schlender mentioned, "there is a good possibility of having a week off between seasons for the athlete. For the three sport athlete, and McHenry has its share, this will be a godsend. Any coach worth his salt will agree it is best to let the athlete have a few days off between seasons. Now if the IHSA goes to at least three or four class basketball systems, improves its football playoff system and makes the necessary changes in its constitution, we could have the best athletic program in the country. Stream wood leaves Johnsburg stranded By Mike Lamb Plaindealer sports editor JOHNSBURG - Johnsburg's Jim Bentz wanted to win, and he wanted to win bad. When he slugged a deep liner into left-field for a triple, Bentz could just taste scoring the tying run. But in came Streamwood's Eddie Eichele. The hard- throwing sophomore just wouldn't allow Bentz to come home. Eichele got Joe Majercik to pop up, struckout Tim Adams and Mark Majercik lined one right into the third-baseman's glove. Johnsburg's season was over. Streamwood hung on for a 5-4 class AA regional win over the Skyhawks at Johnsburg's Community Club field Wed­ nesday. Streamwood, 9-17-1, traveled over to Wauconda Thursday. Johnsburg finishes with a 10-9. Streamwood manager Les Herman was impressed with the entire Skyhawk squad, but he was the most impressed with Bentz, Johnsburg's catcher. "I was impressed with the play of their catcher," said Herman. "He throws hard. He took us out of a couple innings." Bentz broke up a Streamwood rally in the third inning by throwing out Joe Cardinale while attempting to steal second base. Bentz also added two singles, an rbi and a stolen base. . For Johnsburg coach Jim Meyers, it was disappointing to lose, but he couldn't find fault his players. "I'll miss these guys," Meyers said. "We didn't play a little league team. This was a good team. I'm disappointed we loss, but we played a good game." Johnsburg held command of the contest up to the sixth in­ ning. Streamwood scored two runs, with the help of a triple and two singles off of the Skyhawks Jeff Jayko. The second Streamwood run of the inning ended up being the game winner, as the Skyhawks failed to score a run in either the bottom of the sixth or seventh innings. Jayko pitched the entire seven innings for Johnsburg in picking up the loss. Bob Tengesdal was the winner for Streamwood. Johnsburg came out hitting the ball hard in grabbing a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Jeff Preston led-off with a left-field triple, and was knocked in by Bentz's centerfield single. Bentz was knocked in by Joe Majer- cik's double. "We hit the ball like that most of they year. We're a good hitting team," said Meyers. His squad had nine hits. ' Streamwood took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. With one out, Cardinale tripled, and was knocked in by Mike Hickey's single. Johnsburg jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the third inning. After one out, Bentz singled and stole second base. Joe Majercik hit a slow grounder to the shortstop, who went to third base, but was too late with the throw leaving both runners safe. After Tim Adams grounded out, Mark Majercik lined deep down the left-field line. His ball struck a branch off a huge tree which sits along that left-field line, knocking the ball down and holding Majercik to a double. But both Bentz and Majercik scored on the play. Streamwood came back with two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Mark Cecchi singled, but was cut-down on Scott Cecille fielder's choice. Vince Cardinale followed with a single, moving Cecille to third. Both runners scored on a single by Jim Seger with two outs. Herman pointed to Seger's single as the big key of the game. Herman also pointed to the Johnsburg sixth inning as a big key for his squad's win. After one out, Dale Zalke singled and pinch-hitter John Gallagher was walked. Bill Pecucd, came back into the ballgame to run for Gallagher. Jim Olekszy also came in to pinch-hit, laying down a sacrifce bunt, which moved Zalke and Pecucd to second and third. But lead-off hitter Jeff Preston couldn't get either runner home, grounding out to first base. ROSS FORD TRACTOR wsssz ijrss; CHAPEL HILL RD. 344-0822 Vehrings lift Warriors past Rockford Auburn The Green Machine* High-Performance Yard-Care Tools. DEMONSTRATION DAY . JUNE 2,9 AM to 5 PM Mf r. Representative to answer your questions and help you get your hands on one. Come see the Difference. BOY FROM McHSNRY COUNTY'S SIMPLICITY MALER FULL SIR VKSSMF & PARTS MPT. OPTIONAL: Catcher'14T* Thatcher 'If" 42" Dozer Blade •IIS" VACUUM COLLECTOR ALSO AVAILABLE 1801 ROUTE 120 McHENRY (1 Mile E. of Town) IISfMMItt On the Sideline Dick Rabbitt ROCKFORD - Staying alive is what state tournaments are all about. That's exactly what the McHenry Warriors did by defeating Rockford Auburn 6-1 Wednesday. The 8-8 Warriors traveled to Rockford-Guilford Thursday to take on the number one seed in the Rockford East class AA regional. According to Warrior coach Brian Wilson, his squad com­ bined one their better hitting performances of the season with the "best pitching performance all year king." Ross Vehring held Rockford Auburn to two hits and scattered two walks to pick up the win. "It was an excellent pitching performance," said Wilson. Added to Ross' mound effort, was toother Chris' plate per­ formance. Chris Vehring was three-for-four, slugging a triple, double and a single, while knocking in one run. "I'm really happy," added Wilson. "I think the kids wanted to win. In the past they didn't get the breaks. We have the ability to beat anybody* on any given day." Rockford Auburn scored one run in the second inning and carried a 1-0 lead into the sixth inning. It was in the sixth, the Warrior bats exploded. McHenry tied the game at 1-1. After Craig Hill reached on a fielder's choice, he later scored on a single by Chris Vehring. Hie Warriors were able to come home with the win with a five-run out-burst in the eighth inning. This time Hill singled, and moved to third on Chris Vehring's double. Moore came up with the big hit of the day with a two-run single. The rally was kept alive with-a single by Nolan and a rbi double by Tim Pankiewicz. Kris Teuber then was walked and Mike Podpora doubled to score the last two runs. Moore, Nolan, Pankiewicz and Podpora all had two hits in the Warrior 13-hit attack. FREE REFRESHMENTS WITH DEMONSTRATION MODEL 4211 G 5 Speed gear drive 11 HP LAWN TRACTOR $1590.00 PLUS TAX Includes: 36" Mower Key Elec. Start 24" Turning Radius Plaindealer photo by Mike Lamb Johnsburg catcher Jim Bentz does his best to block home plate, but Streamwoods's Scott Cecille knocks the ball loose on the slide to score the winning run in the sixth inning. 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