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Page 19• PLAINDEALER-HER ALD, W EDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6.1985 Sports McHenry wrestlers fifth at FVC meet Mann handles 98-lb field, D-C charges to team title Dan Geske, also a sophomore, took fourth at 155, after getting bested by South's Bruce Backe 11- 3. AND ANOTHER sophomore, Steve Scheurr, was fourth at 167 and being pinned by Jacobs' Tim Danley in 5:36. All in all, not a bad performance for an out-of-shape team which had been basically idle for the bet­ ter part of three weeks. But Rankin said he expected a little more. "I fully expected us to finish anywhere from second to sixth," Rankin said. "I knew we could beat one team, but after that, 1 wasn't too sure. But I thought third was a realistic goal. The strike, coupled with our being oi|t of shape, meant we didn't do as well as I had thought we would. We also had five or six guys wrestling up a class. But there's no excuses to be made. You can'jf improve by not performing." , • Rankin said the Warrioi* returned to the mats at Thurs­ day's practice as if they had never left. "We did the same things we did before. We couldn't go as long in­ itially, but we practiced as hard as we could without hurting anybody." DID THE Warrior wrestlers stay in good physical condition during the layoff? CARPENTERSVILLE - Total domination. That's the best phrase to deter­ mine the state of affairs at the Fox Valley Conference wrestling meet last Saturday. Powerful Dundee^Crown amass­ ed 269 points, shattering the previous FVC mark of 236% set by Woodstock last year. The Chargers boasted eight individual champions in the 12 weight classes, besting second-place Crystal Lake South by over 100 points. McHenry was fifth behind Woodstock and Jacobs, the War­ riors totaling 93 points. And, in speaking of domination, you might want < to include McHenry's Chris Mann, who stood high over the rest of the 98-pound field, in collecting one of the in­ dividual titles Dundee-Crown left behind. MANN, A Junior, whipped D-C's Jesse Turner 11-2 in the champion­ ship bout, a match McHenry coach Jerry Rankin said Mann ab­ solutely controlled. "Mann wrestled outstanding for the whole tournament," Rankin complimented. "It's the best tour­ nament I've ever seen him wres­ tle, and I've coached him for six years. "In the finals, he was ahead 11-0 and got reversed in the last five seconds. It was never in doubt. 1 was really quite pleased with his performance." McHenry's Chris Mann is in a bind here during his champion­ ship match against Dundee-Crown's Jesse Turner, but Mann Johnsburg matmen third in NWSC meet ROUND LAKE - Don't bet Johnsburg wresUing coach Mike Roberts on the outcome of anything. Chances are you'll lose. Roberts said last week his Skyhawks would finish third in the Northwest Suburban Conference meet in Round Lake Saturday. They did. Roberts also predicted that powerful Grant, missing several varsity wresUers who had already used up their tournament eligibili­ ty, could wind up losing to Round Lake in the tournament. And, they did. Finally, the Skyhawk coach said junior Bob Bentz would probably win the individual heavyweight ti­ tle at the meet. And guess what happened? He did. escaped and claimed the 98-pound title Marengo keeps tempo, rips struggling 'Hawks JHS was In fourth place, Vfe-point behind Grayslake as the final round began. Although Bentz was the only Johnsburg wrestler in a championship match, seven other Skyhawks were involved in third- place bouts. ROUND LAKE had 189* points to claim the title. Grant had 159, and Johnsburg came in with 105. Marian Central was fifth with 72% points. The conference tourna­ ment, coupled with the regular- season standings, left Round Lake and Grant in a tie for first, with the Skyhawks third. Individual third-place winners for Johnsburg were: Senior Terry Eifler at 119 pounds, downing Marengo's Loren Darling in the third->place match. Sophomore Jim Walker at 126 pounds. , .JlWipr Kee (138)t who topped his Grayslake opponent *- 2. Junior Pat. Bjerning (185), who claimed his trophy by pinning Marian Central's Tony Remke in the third round, after trailing 10-2. FOURTH-PLACE finishers for Johnsbyrgwere: Senior Mark Dumelle , (167); junior David Thoren (132) and junior Jeff Carden (155). "We had eight wrestlers in the final round," Roberts noted. "We brought only 10, we had eight in the final round, and five of them won, so that's outstanding. I honestly thought we'd have more in the championship round, but we still are real pleased with our finish." Roberts said that although the Skyhawks finished as a team ex- acUy where he had expected, he still was surprised at the final out­ come. "I really thought we'd have a few individuals higher than we did. We had some seeded guys not do* as well, but some unseeded guys came in and picked up the slack.". Round Lake came from behind in the final round to edge Grant, prompting Roberts to call the 1985 meet "the most exciting con­ ference tourney I've seen in five years. It was just excellent." The Skyhawks will be involved in this weekend's McHenry Regional Tournament Friday and Saturday. mltted, "but all of the places in our conference are tough. It's as hard to play there as any place else in the conference." The loss sent the Skyhawks reeling into last place in the conference at 2-7, 6-12 overall. Marengo improved to 8-1,11-7. The Skyhawks' last win was Jan. 18 against Grayslake. Prior to that triumph, the 'Hawks last win was Dec. 22. Johnsburg has not won back-to- back games since Nov. 22-23, when it downed Richmond- Burton and Marian Central in the Hurricanes' Thanksgiving tournament. "It was just one of those nights," Beck said of the Marengo debacle. "We got out of our game plan early because of the foul problems and lack of offense, and We couldn't.fto what we wanted t to keep them from an even flow." "WHEN YOU let Marengo run up and down the floor on you, you won't win,. The results are obvious." Sophomore Frank Husak broke out of a moderate scoring slump with 14 points to lead Johnsburg. Junior Tim Shine continued his improved offen­ sive output with 10. "Frank played a good offen­ sive game," Beck noted, "one of the better ones he's had in a while. He got his shooting touch back, and he passed the ball well. i ' 'Tim has played much better basketball of late," Beck said of the 6-4 Shine. "He's con­ tributed much more to our ballclub." Joel Hansen had 19 points for Marengo to lead all scorers. Vince Evans chipped in 17. Both teams shot well from the floor in the game. Johnsburg was 19-for-41, a 46 percent clip, while Marengo was 28-for-53, a 52 percent ratio. Johnsburg was scheduled to travel to Grant Tuesday night, and will try to topple Lake Zurich at home Friday. MARENGO - Falling to their nintfy loss in their last 10 outings, the Skyhawks of Johnsburg took another on the chin Friday /light at Marengo, 73-51. The Indians, who lead the Northwest Suburban Con­ ference, were coming off their first league loss of the year at the hands of Wauconda Tues­ day night, and Johnsburg couldn't have picked a worse time to travel to Marengo's teepee. "We got in foul trouble ear­ ly," said JHS coach Ben Beck. "We had three of our starters on the bench with fouls in the first quarter." That fact, coupled with the loss of junior starting forward Ripk Eastej-Hng, who is out witti<;£ dtaloeated finger, sent Johnsburg Staggering to its 12th loss of the season. "Mann wrestled outstanding for the whole tour­ nament. It's the best I've ever seen him wrestle ... in six years. I was quite pleased with his per­ formance. " -- McHenry coach Jerry Rankin Mann's triumph was made even more impressive by the layoff the Warriors suffered through due to the teacher's strike. McHenry had its first practice in two weeks last Thursday, and another short stint on, F^idw J^efore taking to the mats for the. first time tn three weeks Saturdays f m "Not practiblng was bad enough," Rankin said. "But no competition just compounded the problem. We didn't have the com­ petitive sharpness we should have had. We lost two overtime mat­ ches in the first round, and that was probably due mosUy to lack of conditioning." IN ADDITION to Mann's cham­ pionship, four other Warriors took fourth-place honors, while another pair garnered thirds. Junior Dennis Gaines was a third-place finisher at 185, down­ ing Jacobs' Chris Beth by default in the third-place match. Heavyweight Terry Knoll, a senior, defeated Cary-Grove's Shawn Straight to collect his third place UUe. At 105 pounds, freshman Gary Layton finished fourth, suffering a Cat the hands of Jacobs' John di at 3:39 in the tiUe bout. Sophomore Ivan Cvitkovic (126) was edged by Cary-Grove's Steve Karczynski 5-4 to finish fourth. "They came back in miserable shape," Rankin said. "But honest­ ly, there aren't too many high school athletes who would be out of school for three weeks and come back fit. aUtoe^rik^setUp^O ha^ pected. Most of the kids thought they'd never get back in school. They all ran and lifted weights, but they weren't in wrestling con­ dition," Rankin said. The first-year coach added he hoped the four days of practice this week would prepare McHenry for the regional tournament, to be hosted by the Warriors Friday and Saturday. "They wrestled better in each round Saturday," Rankin said. "They're young kids. They should bounce back and be ready to go.", The seven Fox Valley teams, along with Johnsburg, will be competing in the regional meet. That includes the awesome Chargers of D-C. "They were Just totally over­ powering," praised .Rankin of the FVC champs. "They could have taken a conference all-star team and beaten them Saturday. The new record for points, 269, is truly amazing. Thars a lot of points. T h e y w e r e a b s o l u t e l y devastating," he said. "HAVING RICK out hurt us quite a bit. He's played very well Inside of late," Beck said. Marengo zoomed out to a 12-4 lead after one quarter, and created the very problem Beck and Johnsburg was trying to avoid. "They jumped out early, and that was basically the key," said Beck. "We were forced to play the game their way, which is running, and we didn't want to do that. "We went in trying to create a slow tempo, but once they got ahead by so many points, we ended up chasing them the rest oftheballgame." v The Skyhawks got their of­ fense untracked in the second quarter, tallying 13 points, but Marengo was off to the races, putting 24 on the scoreboard to open up a 36-17 halftime lead. Johnsburg stayed basically even the rest of the contest, scoring 14 to Marengo's 17 points in the third period, and matching the Indians' 20 fourth-quarter points. But the damage had been done. "YEAH, MARENGO'S a tough place to play," Beck ad- M tab Bentz became only the second wrestler in Johnsburg school history to capture an individual conference title. The first in the school, but the second in his fami­ ly. Brother Jim copped the NWSC heavyweight crown last year. BENTZ TOPPED Grant's Steve Roe in the final, 5-0. Bentz had entered the tournament as the number one seed with a 7-0 con­ ference mark, but hadn't met up with Roe in the regular season. This batUe left no doubt as to who t h e t o p d o g w a s i n t h e heavyweight class. "I was definitely pleased with Bob's performance," Roberts said. "He gets the butterflies in his stomach real bad before a match, and that worries me sometimes. But he had a takedown on Roe in about three seconds, and just controlled him for the whole match." Johnsburg needed a solid per­ formance from Bentz and the other Skyhawks in the final round. FSBeHdhigt Sale Bulletin #1192 To: All Homebuyers From: Midwest's Leading Homebuilder Wausau Homes, Inc. Subject: Winter/Spring 85 Promotion Areas Covered:. Energy Efficient and Maintenance Free Features Options: 1)2x6 Exterior Walls 2) Air to Air Heat Exchanger 3) Triple Glazed Windows 4) Vinyl Siding 5) Aluminum Soffit & Fascia 6) Metal Clad Exterior All Windows Incentive: Purchase your new Wausau Home by March 1, 1985 & Take delivery by July 1, 1985 & get 50% OFF The Price Of 1 Or AH These Options C°Lfl*J. 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