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P«K>- U • PLAINDEALER HEBALD, WEP^iESDAV, JAMAR^ 2.1985 Sports '• ' ' 'V . . i'i ;':: •vWfc'.' r *1*!'TTT-rry^fe*"^^; '•• 'V&ite** * *» ' mmmrnm -- ' j • :'". •••••• V. \ Chris Jvswik Sports Editor t.M-?"-VS¥-f .-- i" V ' ' ' .. , 'fir^ '••"»• r ' '•' Entering a new, eerie realm -1985 f ' * f . • Questions, observations and wonderings abound as we delve I n t o a n e w y e a r . F o r I n s t a n c e : • « -- ' • Michael Jordan is surreal. » Never settle for mediocrity -- if you do, failure is certain to follow. . . ' • When a ski hill say§ 'intermediate' or 'advanced,' trust it. • When a coach says he or she has a player who's a 'hard worker,' chances are good that player can't play worth a dam. • Sportswriters are much more maligned than is imaginable. » Are there such things as guides on cross-country ski trips? » Do the teammates of high-scoring New York Knicks for­ ward Bernard King like him? • The sport which requires the most concentration has to be pool. - IT'S BEEN DECIDED THAT : • Basketball is the best sport to play by yourself. • Bowling is the best sport to enjoy^ith a beer. • One thing I couldn't get paid enough to try -- swimming the fnglish Channel. • Are the number of catches made on an ice fishing excursion more, less or about equal to those on a 'regular' fishing outing? • Are officials more lenient in girls' basketball? • High school benchwarmers grow up to the most stable, calm and easygoing of all the species in the sports realm. ' • Nothing is more conducive to winning than a player with a big heart. v» • Interest in a particular sporting event grows ten-fold when a portion of your own money is on the line. • Whispering "fore" on a golf course is like watching episode after worthless episode of "The A-Team." It doesn't do anybody any good. OTHER THOUGHTS ARISE, LIKE: • Whatever happened to Carl Lewis? • Happiness is seeing the current week's Sports Illustrated in your mailbox. Most other magazines are cheap imitations. • Johnsburg's boys' basketball team will be a force in the 1985-86 season, as will the wrestling squads at both McHenry and Johnsburg high schools. • There's no hiding on the first tee. • Don Shula and Chuck Knox are football's versions of Albert Einstein. True, absolute genuises. Or is it genui? • Are there such things as ice skates with training blades? • Is it fun to be an offensive lineman? • The best professional sport to play has to be basebajlflh^ golf, the worst, basketball. Think about the travel aspects. ^ • Is there a need for a 'sportsphone' of sorts in the area, using strictly high school scores? If so, can I host? J DID YOU EVER WONDER: • Who is credited with the points in a forfeited game, if anyone? • How meaningless summers would be without Softball, pigtail or little leagues? • There should be different sorts of clauses in player's con­ tracts. Instead of positive bonuses, how about negative bonuses? If you hit .300, great. Here's an extra hundred thou, the general manager says. But. If you only hit .250 -- pay up, pal. Turnabout, as they say, is fair play. ^ • The greatest capper on a strange college football season would be for Brigham Young coach LaVell Edwards to decline the Cougars' number one rankin, in favor of a more accurate seventh or eighth. * • Total frustration is described in one, short, hyphenated word -- three-putt. Curses to anyone whose second serve is better than my • Are there any ping-pong leagues around? •xWhat causes apathy? Does anybody care? * . • I would like to see a hockey game on normal TV. Speaking of which -- isn't normal TV now considered abnormal, while cable TV is the more widely-accepted of the two? • There will be an all-Chicago World Series before the end of the century. • Athletes who refuse to talk to reporters only make bigger nuisances of themselves. • New year's resolutions are no fun unless they're broken^ and they're always broken, so why not make them outlandish? This time around, I resolve to do everything right in the coming 365 days. So far, so good. men win Morton tournament Plaiadealer-Herald News Service CICERO - "We brought home the gold." No, the speaker wasn't Carl Lewis, it was McHenry County College men's basketball coach Mike Capaccio, aftei&his team brought home first place in the Morton Christmas tournament with a 96-88 win over'the host team last week. The win lifts MCC's record to 7-6. "It was a real nice win. We're happy to win, we're happy with the gold," Capaccio said after his team won its second game in a row. MCC's Derrick Bruce led all scorers with 33 points against Morton, and was vgted the tour- nament's most valuable player. He scored 52 points in the MCC victories. "WHEN THE game gets he has to have the ball. H e ' s a n e x c e p t i o n a l ballplayer," Capaccio said. "He put on an absolute scoring clinic." Capaccio said the game " as tight throughout, with the final scoring being MCC's biggest lead of the game. The Scots, paced by Bruce's 20 first-half points, were able to edge to a 39-35 lead at the intermission, buU Capaccio said his team again suffered from "first-half blues." ^ "We did it again. We came out in the first half and were so cold -- we were in slow mo­ tion," he said. "But just like so many other games, we got our fast break going in the second half and hat keyed us," MCC scored 57 ints in the second 20 minutes. LEE NEWMAN and Jamie Erlksen sparked the team in the second half, according to their coach. Newman tallied 17 of his 21 points then and Eriksen came off the bench to score seven of his 11 markers. Harvard High School grad Pete Dawson tallied 13 points and was named to the all- tournament team. Dawson, a 6- 8 sophomore, averaged 13 re­ bounds per contest. "It was a team thing. Sure Derrick had 33, but every guy who played did a whale of a job," Capaccio said. "Hey, when you only have eight guys on the roster, you need every bit of scoring, rebounding and defense you can get." Johnsburg High gracl Greg Sobiesk chipped in 10 points to the MCC cause. The tournament was a good preparation for the Scots' up­ coming Skyway Conference games, according to Capaccio. MCC will travel to the College of Lake County Jan. 8 and return home Jan. 10 to host con­ ference favorite Wright. gMBMi t Mr,^ •• fWIBM -- By Chris Juzwik PUindeaJer-Herald sports editor WHEELING - McHenry High' School had better get some new uniforms for its boys' basketball team. After being battered, bruised andTotherwise beaten into submis­ sion by Wheeling Saturday, the Warriors' black, white and orange togs won't match with their black- and-blue bodies. The two teams met in the con­ solation championship of the Wheeling Hardcourt Classic, ob­ viously played on a basketball floor. But a better setting could well have been a boxing ring, with the Warriors playing the role of featherweight to the Wildcats' super-heavyweight, In other words, no contest, the host school rolling to a 76-50 win. McHenry (5-9) appeared to be a good match for Wheeling in the early going, but a scoreless stretch late in the first half allow­ ed the hosts to lead by five -- 36-31 -- at the intermission. A dismal of­ fensive output in the second 16 minutes dooped the Warriors, as they scored just one field goal in the final quarter. . "OUR OFFENSE Just died in the second half," understated McHenry coach Ken Ludwig. "We didn't run an offense at all. We had players not in the right spots all night. Two forwards on the same side of the floor, just no organization at all. And, our shots weren't falling for us." They cer­ tainly weren't. The Warriors were an unofficial l-for-18 from the floor in the fourth quarter, scoring only six baskets in the entire second half. McHenry tallied juilt 19 points after halftime. Wheeling scored 21 in the third quarter alone. Blow-out? You bet. "There was so much pushing and shoving out there tonight," L u d w i g s a i d , " i t w a s unbelievable. How many times do you thing Scotty (point guard Freund) got fouled tonight? Fif­ ty?" At least. The Wildcats were bruisers, no doubt about it. But their physical attitude intimidated the smaller Warriors, or at least seemed to, and the final score reflects that. » Mc HENRY TOOK over three minutes to score its first basket, a turnaround jumper by forward Pat Dunne, who had six points in V „ .. . , Platndealer-Herald News Service photo bySamNatrop McHenry County College's Pete Dawson pulls looks on. The Scots won the championship of the down a rebound in a recent win over Morton Christmas Tournament last week. Kishwaukee Valley, as Jerry DeWane (42) Warriors pounded--literally -- by Wheeling, 76- 50 in title game the first quarter and none thereafter. The Warriors had a balanced first quarter attack, as six different players got into the scoring column. Dunne picked up his secood foul of the game with 2:27 to play in the first stanza. Wheeling's Tom Stothoff, who would dazzle McHenry and the crowd later, scored on an offen­ sive rebound and basket to put the Wildcats ahead 19-16 after one. The Wildcats' Handy Peterson scored 13 points in the first eight minutes, all on shots inside th» lane. The freewheeling and high scor ing continued in the second perior as Wheeling led by four points o four separate occasions. Dunn' picked up his third personal with 5:42 to play relegating him to the bench for the remainder of the half. McHenry forward Craig Hill, who tied for game-high scoring honors with Peterson (17 each), hit two free throws to tiethe game at 28 with 4:30 to go. The Wildcats continued to get easy baskets at the expense of the befuddled Warriors, who often McHENRY--Page 16 Discover W FURNITURE-BEDDING McHenry-Anttoch NO FINANCE CHARGES NO INTEREST CHARGES FOR ONE FULL YEAR! IT'S BETTER THAN PAYING CASH... •Don't worry about toady's soaring interest rates. & •You don't need to pay cash to avoid poyIng high interest. 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