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" . ( X * • ' . ' SETTIOS 2 • PAGE16 • PLAINDEALfcR HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 7,1«JBS Sports ' ft'# " Bass •• £8883 mwmm - - ' i MC camps begin WOODSTOCK - Marian Central Catholic High School will again offer summer sports camps during a two-week period in June. '• Instruction in basketball for boys and girls, football, volleyball, baseball, softball, tennis and wrestling will be offered during the weeks of June 10 and 17 for interested boys and girls in grades 5,6, 7, and 8. The cost of the two-week camp is $15 which includes a camp t- and a certificate of participation. Marian Central coacnes serve as instructors for the camp.> Interested parties may register at the door on Monda More information can be obtained ' director Hans Rokus at 338-4220. [ay. by calling MC athletic On the Sideline Dick Rabbitt Grades, gratitudes, golf and goodbye One of the bi| schools these athlete. it concerns not only in college, but in high ys, is the matter of grades for the student- The NCAA has a policy that to be eligible for a scholarship', th< student must have maintained a 2.0 average or, in layman' the s terms, a 'C' average. ' • Failure to maintain this mark results in the athlete sitting out his or her freshman year, and no scholarship money is ob­ tainable. What generally happens is that the student will enroll in a junior college, play one or two years and then transfer to a major school. Inner-city school officials feel that this is a hardship on their students, as many of the students lack the necessary skills to maintain a 'C' average. Prior to this past school year, the IHSA had a rule tnat a student m must pass 15 hours of work per weejk in order to participate in athletics. This meant he or sne had to pass in three classes no matter how many classes were taken. This past school year, the IHSA upped the mandatory requirement to 20 hours per week. This caused some problems with athletes in the state of Illinois, but it was probably no more of a problem than in previous years. The Texas legislature went one better this past year. All students in athletics had to maintain a 'C' average in all their courses. An uproar followed and the result is that there are 11 lawsuits filed by parents against the legislature. This Texas rule seems a bit harsh for the student athlete. A student may want to take a more difficult course, not only for the challenge, but a course he or she may think will be of help in the future. Using a example, a math course, or a language course. Because of fearing a grade lower than 'C' the student will not take the course and lose out on a wonderful experience. McHenry High School has not had any great problems with student eligibility. Athletic director Joe Schlender and West body. This isn't to say that all Warriors were 4A-plus' students, but their overall average was above the normal student population. Thisst ; student-athlete problem will not be solved by this writer or any other writer. For the colleges: make the student attend classes. For the high schools: be patient and give help where needed, whether an athlete or not. Help, and everyone will be a winner. All I've been hearing around the Fox Valley Conference is summer programs being held by the various schools. I would like to address all Warriors, Sky hawks and Hurricanes: Take part in such programs. Whether it be basketball, weightlifting, a passing league, baseball, softball, tennis, wrestling or Whatever: take advantage of it. Your opponents for next season will be hard at work this summer, you can bank on that. So don't be caught short. Spend a little extra time getting ready for the coming year. We are hoping for successful seasons from all three schools AW# fTAAt* SA IaPc /tftf DAn/llf f A«* 0% Un MMAM 1 AOC_Of next year, so let's get ready for a banner 1985-86 season. Our good friend and golfing buddy Bob Hendricks had quite an experience last Sunday. Frank Gende, Mike Rudi and I had the pleasure of watching Bob get a hole-in-one at Twin Lakes Country Club. On the 184-yard 10th hole, the ball hit the green, fyit the flagstick and dropped in the hole. It was quite a shot and could not nave happened to a finer guy. Well, it's time to put awav the typewriter and get serious about golf. We had a lot of run this year, enjoyed your com­ ments, Doth good and bad. Like always, the good Lord willin', I'll be back again for what I hope is a great Warrior year in sports. Skate away Skateboarders find fun a new way By Steve Metsch ̂ Plaindealer-Herald News Service OAKWOOD HILLS - The cons­ tant whir of wheels is interupted only by the thud of bodies crashing to the hardwood surface. Welcome to the world of competitive skateboarding. The street in front of Tory Boett- cher'sr home was filled Saturday with parked cars sporting license plates from Arkansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and other faroff lands. Skateboarding has outgrown its humble roots. Boettcher, 21, s tarted skateboarding seven years ago on the hi l ly s treets in his neighborhood. Organized sports, with their regimented practices and drills, weren't for him. He opted for the easy-going, train-as- you-pleasfe sport called skateboar­ ding. "I saw a skateboard magazine and said, 'Wow, that's it,' " Boett­ cher said from behind the registration desk in his family's garage. Skateboard enthusiasts were lining up for the first event in the Midwest Amatuer Ramp Series (MARS). The other locales are Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Lin­ coln, Neb. Bill Miller, a Lincoln native, felt the series' time had come. "The Mideast has the MESS series. I felt the Midwest needed something. So we.got thextrack out. We've had mention in two of the skateboarding magazines, which gave us a lot of help. Everybody reads them. There are quite a few (skateboarders) in the Midwest," Miller said. - . The track was built by Boett­ cher and sits in the yard beside the garage. It is 20 feet long and resembles a large letter "U." The walls are eight feet Jtall and dramatically rise until they are perpendicular to the ground. Before Saturday's competition began, skaters would line the plat­ forms facing each other from atop each wall. After one skater com­ pleted his run -- either by falling off or cooly finishing his routine -- another would place the board on the wall's edge, put his weight on the back wheels, then shift to the front, using gravity to send him spinning down the wall to the ramp's smooth bottom. The force of gravity would speed the skater up the opposite wall, seemingly headed for a crash with the watching skaters. Some would wipe out, but most ex­ pertly turned on the rear wheels when they reached the crest, spun around and headed downhill for a repeat journey. "It's pretty much up to tlie skater," Boettcher said. "To do that stuff up on tojp takes five to six years, but some people feel comfortable right away." Neil Blender feels at home on a skateboard. He should since he's from the hotbed of skateboarding -- Orange County, California. When the Beach Boys sang about surfing, perhaps waves weren't all they had in mind. Sidewalk sur­ fing is just as big. Blender, who's been skating for five years, is a professional who writes and shoots photographs for G & S Magazine, published by a skateboard manufacturer. He wears shoes courtesy of Adidas, and travels the country visiting meets like Boettcher's. "You just get good," Blender said when asked how one becomes a pro skateboarder. "In Califor­ nia, everybody gets good." Besides skating in exhibitions and pro meets, Blender has another mission -- spread good will. "The public tends to look at it as a thing for punk kids, yet it's not," he said, perhaps not hearing the punk music in the background or seeing skaters with haircuts resembling the latest rage among British musicians. The sport isn't for contestants alone. The crowds seemed to en­ joy itself, "oohing" and "ahhing" with each fancy move or bone- crashing fall. "We had one guy split his knee open yesterday, and he was wear­ ing a pad," Boettcher said. Skateboards, which can cost $130, are, of course, the skater ' s main piece of equipment. But their unique uniforms, which usually consist of brightly-colored T-shirts, shorts and sneakers, wouldn't be complete without knee pads, elbow pads and helmets for those not so daring. "You learn to fall, to fall down and go to your knees," said Blender, who learned to skate in California's barren drainiage dit­ ches. "Your knee pads are pro­ bably the most important thing." Injuries aren't as commonplace as they may seem. Blender broke an ankle his second season. Boett­ cher's worst injury was a broken wrist, received when being chased by his brother down a hilly street. I Now it was time for the competi­ tion to start. Miller called names for practice runs before the V20- minute jam.". The skaters awaited their turns with the pa­ tience of lions at feeding time. _ Judges climbed atop Boett­ cher's roof to rate the routines and , work on their tans. And the ever- appreciative audience intently watched theproceedings. The wheels still whirred and the bodies, still thudded, but no one complained. "It's for anybody Who want to have fun," Blender said. <. And they had plenty of that Saturday afternoon. This skateboarder finds Plaindealer-Herald News Service photo by Steve Me little treacherous as the crowd looks on. Cosentino a man of two jobs, two lives By Chris Juzwik Plaindealer-Herald sports edltor OU What do you get when combine a frustrated a' with an old-fashioned work ethic and a winsome personality? That mixed-up recipe would probably result in Joe Cosen­ tino, an Illinois Bell Technician by day, and a sports talk show host, producer, and sports columnist by night.- Cosentino's television show "SportsTime" will premiere Monday night at 5 p.m. on Lakes Cablevision-Channel 3 and will air again Wednesday at 5 p.m. and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Guests on the first show will be Chicago Tribune sportswriter and author, and McHenry resident Bob Logan, and WLUP- FM sportscaster Bruce Wolf. "It's a busy life," understated Cosentino. "! work a full-time 9- to-5 job, go home, shower, and go to Arlington Heights to be a talk-show host. The cultural contrast is unbelievable. I'm a busy person. I spend more time doing the other stuff as I do my regular job." Cosentino, 36, is also a sports editor and columnist for Fra Noi, an Italian-American newspaper in Northlake. His television program is a sort of rin-off from his radio show of same name, which he also hosted and produced. Hie difference between radio and TV? "On TV, I have, to wear a tie and look good, but on the radio I can wear jeans. Plus, the TV is right now, live. There's no tape you the show, likeyou can on radio," Cosentino said. "I had been doing radio for quite some time, and ac­ complished everything I could there. With the advent of cable, I went to that. It's the same format as the radio show, iust visual. I've been doing this snow since January, and I'm becoming more comfortable with it the more I do it. "I don't have all day to write and prepare for the show like most people can." Cosentino got into the sports broadcasting business in a common way. "I'm a frustrated athlete. This is the closest thing to actually playing," said Cosentino. After toiling a hard eight McHenry Women's 16-inch Softball League There was nary a close game in the bunch Tuesday night, when the Women's 16-inch Softball League took the field at Petersen League Park. Hie narrowest margin of vic­ tory was a less-than-slim 17-10 win by Greg's Never Inn over Classic Trophies. In other contests, After the Fox bombed Old Bridge, 18-3; River Shannon crushed Ed's Rental 13- 1; and Oak Park Lounge smothered Fox Hole, 16-4. Details from Tuesday's battles: Greg's IT. Haaslr Tuylim 10 Greg's Never Inn amassed IS bits, and was aided by IS walks, as they rolled over Classic Trophies, 17-10. Jamie White walked none, struck out two, and picked a runner off first to star (or Greg's in the field. Dorothy Steadman bad two hits and two RBI, Doreen Rasbaugh and Paulette Erickson both went J-for-4, and Dawn Liotta knocked in a ran for tbe winner. Vera Treptum was 4-for-4 for Classic, while Chris Tokarz and Kris Carlson had three hits each. . River Shannon 13, Ed's Rental 3 Lora Jacobs went 3 -for-3 with a triple and two doubles to lead River Shannon to a 13-1 victory Tuesday night over Ed's Rental. Ed's scored its runs on three solid hits in the top of the fifth, but Shannon pitcger Karen Hlntz was in control, allowing Just four hits and no walks. In addition to Jacobs' hitting, River Shannon got three hits and three RBI from Sharon Smith, and two safeties apiece from Anna Shuler and Lee Ann Christy. Karen Freund led the way for Ed's Rental with a hit and a run scored. Alter the Fox IS, Old Bridge 3 After the Fox poured 11 runs across the plate in the first, as Kath Rogers' second trip to the Joe Cosentino houiv every day, it's probably also the furthest thing from actually working. T plate in the inning resulted in a two-run ̂ as ATF romped over Old Bridge, 18-3. Rogers had three hits in the gam* u Afi Peggy Footes and Monica Petto. Joyce Zoiss was the leading sl<^ger for ATF, with four hits r Oek Part is. fax Hole 4 Cathy Fisher's two-run double got Oak Patk i Hotel going in the first, and RBI singles by Kfin Weber, Nancy.Glick. Naftcy Hupe and Mary Koieno allowed the winners to score five more in the second, en route to c im thrashing of Fsoc Holf. > Cathy Carpenter and Sandy Rohrer knocked in runs with fourth inning singles, tint Jovte Jaskowlak singled in two more. > Kathy Hayhurst had three hits whAe Jaskowlak and Hupe chipped In two each T