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f AGE U - PLAIN DEALER - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.1984 On the Sideline Dick Rabbitt 2** Warrior gridders seek turnaround Coach Joe Schlender and his "Fighting Warriors" football team open their season tonight when they host the Morton East Mustangs of Cicero in an'8 p.m. contest. The Mustangs won last year's battle 14-7 for their first victory in three years. Warrtar fans who attended the game will long remember the celebration of the Cicero crew. It reminded one of a Super Bowl win. From reports heard last year, they celebrated long into the night. I'm sure Coach Schlender has reminded his squad of that game, anchwill have the Warriors more prepared tonight. IN TODAY'S EDITION, YOU WILL WILL find the football preview, not only of the Fox Valley Conference county teams, but of Marian Central, Johnsburg and Richmond as well. We would like to thank all the coaches for their cooperation in compiling this section, especially Don Penza of Marjan and Randy Oberembt of Johnsburg. Calling these coaches late at night - and I mean late - found them all to be most cooperative. Also Joe Schlender, who is always willing to give of his time for any information that would be helpful to this column. Coach Pam Schaefer and her Warrior volleyball team "opened their season on Tuesday at Antioch. More information on that team appears in today's sports section. The genial coach of the girl spikers is hoping for a better season than 1983, and if hard work is the answer, she will get her wish. "HUTCH" ENTERED HIS "RUNNING WARRIORS" in the varsity 'B' meet last Saturday at Maine West, and the locals came out a winner. The J.V. squad made up of sophomores finished in third place. LeRoy Cliff, former Zion-Benton "ZeeBee" coach, has returned to the sidelines this season. Warriors of the 60s and 70s remember the great ZeeBee teams in the North Suburban. Cliff, who was fired, was recently rehired for the job. Former Warrior coach Bill Day can recall a lot of interesting games against Cliff's ZeeBees. The high school football polls are out for this season, and it looks as if area teams are like Rodney Dangerfield, for they get no respect. MARIAN CENTRAL, THE 1983 CLASS 2A CHAMPS, are currently ranked fifth in the state, and have not played a game this season. Likewise, Fox Valley and Class 4A defending champion Woodstock is rated third. ̂ They moved up a couple notches without even playing a game. I always thought a champion was a champion until defeated. Let the decisions be decided on the football field, not in the press box. IN MY PICKS FOR THE FOX VALLEY and Northwest Suburban this season I'll disagree with the experts on one count, and go along with them on the other. I'll take Woodstock to successfull^defend their title in the Fox Valley. Crystal Lake South secondJlollowed by Central. I'll pick the Warriors to finish fourth, witljine hope they prove me wrong during the coming season. Jacobs should be fifth, followed by Dundee Crown and Cary-Grove. In the NWSC, 1'^ pick the defending champion Hurricanes of Marian Central, with Lake Zurich second, Johnsburg edging out Grant for third, and you can pick the rest in any fashion you desire. 3 Glad my name is not "Skip." How would you like to be the next- door neighbor of that kind of character? CRYSTAL BALL PICKS:%EEK Morton East at McHeiiry Dundee-Crown at Palatine Jacobs at Lake Zurich CL South at Marian Central Waukegan W. at" Woodstock Cary-Grove at Wauconda Richmond-Burton at Johnsburg Montini at CL Central Rabbitt Juzwik McHenry McHenry Palatine Palatine L.Zurich L.Zurich South Marian Wood. 'Wood. C-Grove C-Grove Johns. Johns. Central Central McHenry harriers race past McHenry cross-country coach Bill Hutchinson is hoping he can dig down into his underclass squad and come up with a couple of runners that will give his Warriors the depth they need for the coming season. But if his team performs as it did Tuesday against Johnsburg, Hutchinson may not have to worry too much. The Warriors crushed the Skyhawks 16-46 at West Campus in their dual meet opener. DeKalb also attended the event, but didn't field a varsity boys' team. * The DeKalb girls defeated McHenry and Johnsburg, 15-39- 5 0 . . . . The Warrior .boys finished first in the varsity 'B' meet at Maine West Saturday, giving Hutchinson even more reason for optimism. The Warriors were' led Tuesday by Chris Creutz and Terry Harth, who finished one- two. BOTH RUNNERS PULLED OUT to an early lead and ran easily ahead of the pack, before Creutz scampered away Harth, and was never challenged. The Warrior winner covered the course in 16:47, while Harth was just six seconds behind. McHenry's Pat Donahue was third at 17:30, and J.R. Wright fourth at 17:58. Johnsburg's first finisher was Mike Lawrence, who ran an 18:08. The next Johnsburg runner to cross the line was Mark Widhalm, who finished eighth. i m m' eiore ^ froifi McHenry's Terry Harth tries to catch teammate Chris Creutz during Tuesday's cross-country meet against Johnsburg and DeKalb at West Campus. Plaindealer photo by Chris Juzwik Creutz outlasted Harth, winning the race in 16:47. Harth finished second, at 16:53. Chris Mumma of McHenry rounded out his team's scoring with a sixth place finish, just three seconds behind Lawrence. DeKalb's girls took control of their race equally as much as McHenry's boys did in their event. The Barbs had the one-two- three finishers, all coming in ahead of McHenry's Pam Bradley. Warrior runner Mary Schultz was fifth, and team­ mates Trudy Milstein (eighth), Deanna Paulson (10th), Kim Yost (12th) and Chris Mogdans (13th) followed. The first Johnsburg girl to finish was Tammy Policky, who was 14th. Mchenry's frosh-soph boys tam nipped Dekalb 25-30. Tom Grant was second, Jeff Zurplis third, Rick Pankiewicz fifth, Billy Creutz seventh and John Xhesler eighth. Warrior golfers, spikers rebu By Dick Rabbitt Plaindealer sports writer Both the McHenry Warrior golf and volleyball teams will try to rebuild their squads for the 1984 season. The reasons, however, are different. Coach Chuck Cuda, the dean of McHenry County coaches, is facing a big rebuilding year with his Warrior golfers, as only two lettermen return from last season's eighth place state finishers." Volleyball coach Pam " Schaeffer hopes her McHenry High spikers will improve after a dismal 1983 campaign, when the Warriors were 1-11. Cuda must forget about last year's squad, the second straight season a Warrior golf team has participated in the state tourney. Preview U H » ® MISSING FROM THAT TEAM ARE Chris Vehring, who led the McHenry onslaught at state with a 163, Tom Nueman, Ken Lang, Bob Gende and Ross Vehring. Steve Law and Brian Smith, both seniors,. are the only returning lettermen from last year's team. Cuda also has a very unusual situation in that no juniors are on the team, and the veteran coach gave no explanation. • He is, however, excited about his underclassmen, including sophomores Chris Howerton, Scott Miller and Dave Weak- man. <. But Cuda's eyes really light up when he mentions his freshman group, Brian Franks, Todd Weinholtz, Phil Webb, Jack Watrous and Jim Simon. "These are a young group of boys that will be heard from in a couple of years," Cuda predicted. They lost their first match to Antioch last week, and played Prospect High School Thursday at home. The Warriors travel to Elgin today. SCHAEFFER'S SPIKERS FACE a different kind of numbers problem. Where Cuda has no juniors to work with, Schaeffer has just 10 players total. This certainly appears to be a difficult task, but the always- smiling Schaeff^ is optimistic. "The girls are working very hard, trying to put together a good team7s Continued on page 23 McHenry netters trounce Antioch Coach Gary Gray and his McHenry Warriors girls' tennis team hope their showing in their opening match Tuesday is a sign of things to come. The Warriors downed Antioch 4-1 at West Campus, and Gray said he was pleased with the performance. "It was really a good way to start," Gray said. Antioch handed McHenry one of the Warriors four losses last season, and already had an all- day tournament under their McHenry girl wins world title McHenry's Karly Kunzer won the 10 and under age bracket title recently at the World Trampling and Tumbling Age Group Championships ' in Kanazawa, Japan. Kunzer, 11, is a member of the McHenry County Tumbleweeds, a team coached dy Duane Sperry, her step father. Kunzer defeated competitors from South Africa, Australia and the United States in the power tJ mbling event, which are five-skill and 10-skill runs. The tumblers are judged on aesthetic quality and difficulty, lite more difficult the skills, the higher the scores. Mary Sperry, Kunzer's mother, said that power tum­ bling is most akin .to flobr exercise. "Except you have"*to be very powerful," she noted. POWER TUMBLING IS DONE ON a two-inch mat, Mrs. Sperry said. "Gymnasts really can't do it. Maybe Mary Lou Retton could, because / KA KARLY KUNZER tough, but most can't." In addition to the age group competition, 20 countries par-, ticipated in a world competition. Kunzer and her family traveled with the U.S. group. VShe was awed by the whole thing," Kunzer's mother, Mary Sperry, said. "Traveling with the other kids she s from the U.S. team. She was really awed." Kunzer won two national titles, the most recent being a championship in Rockford in June. Mrs. Sperry said Kunzer was promised if she won the nationals, she could go to Japan. She did just that. THE WORLD CHAM­ PIONSHIPS are held every two years. Two years ago, the site was Boseman, Montana, and two years from now, Paris will host the event. In Kunzer's immediate future is the Tumbleweeds season, which begins in October, and ends in May with regionals and nationals. Farther down the road, however, the Johnsburg Junior High School student hopes to make the U.S. team. Each team member must be 12 years old, so Kunzer is still a year away. "That's her goal," Mrs. Sperry said "She hopes to do it," * . collective belts, while the Warriors were involved in their first match of the season. McHenry's number one singles player, junior Melissa Rhode, was the only Warrior netter to lose, dropping a 6-1, 6-0 decision to Dawn Bissing, a state qualifier last season. "She was real nervous," Gray said of Rhode. "She made a lot of unforced errors. But that doesn't bother me. Bissing's a good player." IN OTHER MATCHES, McHenry's number two singles player, senior Sara Bird defeated Dori Harp, 6-3, 6-3. Number three singles saw McHenry senior Kris Wolff down Julie Sexton 7-5, 6-3. At one doubles, McHenry's duo of Michele Landis and Geri Haner defeated Sue Belli and Maria Maravelas 6-2, 7-5. The number two doubles tandem of Melissa Greve and Sue O'Halleran edged out Kristen Morgan and Nicole Hawarth, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6. Gray noted it was Greve and O'Halleran's first varsity match together. "They were tough," he said. The McHenry coach plans on doing a good* amount of jockeying witlrnis players this season, and that was evident in Tuesday's lineup. Bird and Wolff will normally play in the first doubles slot, while Landis and Haner will occupy the second position. In effect, as Gray said, "our second doubles team beat their first team." The Warriors will travel to Grant Tuesday. *• * • Plaindealer photo by Chris Juzwik McHenry's Kris Wolff returns a serve in the Warriors 4-1 win over Antioch Tuesday. Wolff, playing number three singles, won her match 7-5, 6-3. i