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Plaindealer-Herald photo by Chris Juzwlk 33±~- V3 3^-i"- 76Jcfl. S9KA. 1X - rAUt 10 - rLAll^ULALLn>ntltALU, WtUntdUA I.JULI 4, 1W> J ' • Soorts Milton Richman UPI sports editor The Citadel's Trues dale; served a draft injustice CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Regan Truesdale is one of tne finest young men you could ever hope to meet and<evenfthough grown men don't cry, he did the other day. It was perfectly okay. He had good reason. The whole thing centered around basketball. Regan Truesdale is unusual in many respects. First, there's this thing about his name. He pronounces it REE- Jin, Just like in the word "region." He's friendly and exceptionally polite and speaks so softly you have to strain to catch everything he says. Then there's the way he looks. Like one of those Mr. America contestants. Truesdale is 6-foot-5 and 206 pounds, and take it from me, he's in better shape right now than Larry Holmes. That's from playing basketball for The Citadel, with whom he has set nine school records. For those who aren't familiar with The Citadel, the school often is called the West Point of the South. Everytime they hear that, many of its cadets have a tendency to make the point they like to think of West Point as The Citadel of the North. „ The purpose of The Citadel Is to train young men to become citizen soldiers who can function well in any kind of military situa­ tion and excel in all aspects of civilian life as well. They've done a great Job with 21-year-old Regan Truesdale of Heath Springs, S.C., Mostly, though, ne has done it by himsdf. I ran into him the other day at The Citadel and if I hadn't been told about it beforehand, I never would've known he was trying to get over one of the biggest disappointments of his life. I wouldn't have known it except for the sadness in his eyes. Truesdale's life revolves in large part around basketball. Which is perfectly natural. Playing guard for the Citadel, he was the Southern Conference Player of the Year the last two seasons. He's the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,606 points and those who have been around here for any length of time claim he's the best who ever wore The Citadel's light blue and white. As soon as you watch him{day, you can tell he isn't one of those self-centered, hooray-for-me performers. That fact is no better reflected than by his 664 career rebounds, which rank him fourth among those who ever played basketball for The Military College of South Carolina. How good is he compared with all the other players in the coun­ try? Judge for yourself. At one point last season, he was rated among the top four guards in the nation by NBA scouts. Even though he generally was double-teamed, he averaged 22 points as a Junior and 21.5 as a senior. "All during the regular season, Regan had three or four dozen pro scouts watching him every time we played," says Citadel coach Randy Nesbitt. "They all said he'd go somewhere midway in the first round. Certainly no lower than high second round." Nesbitt was talking about the NBA Draft, which was held June -18. Astonishingly, Truesdale wasn't selected at all. In any of the • seven rounds. , After the draft was over, a representative of the Harlem Globe , Trotters called The Citadel and said he considered it "the biggest injustice" he had ever seen in basketball. The main switchboard at the school was overloaded by from all over the country following the draft. "Everyone wanted to know what happened," says Josh Baker, Sports Information Director at The Citadel. "They asked me how come Regan wasn't drafted. I told them I didn't know. I wasn't the Hlller ft Hamm s Don Bentz is congratulated by teammates Boo Memories of Antioch. Bentz and his cohorts then advanced to the Zeller (52), Jeff Fowler (20) and John Meyers after swatting a finals, where they handled Dill Bros, of Zion in two straight to home run in a consolation bracket, one-run, semifinal win over rfaim their own tournament title. Hosts rally to win Hiller&Hamm title ByBarbAnsell PUkxtealtr-HaraJd •port! writer It was really inevitable. It was also the most fitting turn of events that could have occurred. McHenry's Hiller & Hamm 12- incb Softball team captured its own sixth annual tournament in rousing fashion, winning a thrill­ ing come-from-behind victory to gain entry into the finals, and then topping Zion's Dill Bros, in two straight for the crown. It was the second straight tournament title for Hiller&Hamm. Plaindealer-Herald photo by Chris Juzwik Hiller & Hamm first baseman Joe Meyers heads around third and to the plate during his team's first win over Zion's Dill Bros, in the Hiller & Hamm tourney at Knox Park. The event brought teams into McHenry from across northern Il­ linois and southern Wisconsin. Hiller & Hamm began play with a first-round bye, and then took on Taylor Made Golf-Gambler of McHenry, walking away with an easy win. The eventual champs, then turned back Cary Auto Body, before fallin to those same Dill Bros, in a fourth round game, 20- 16, sending them into the loser's bracket, in addition to putting Hiller & Hamm one loss away from being ousted from the 24- team, double-elimination event held at Knox Park. H & H then faced Memories of Antioch, and trailed by what seemed an insurmountable 18-10 entering the final inning. But the hosts staged an unreal comeback, as Don Bentz, Bill Meyers, Bob Zeller and Mike Gertz all homered in the seventh to tie the contest. After retiring Memories in order, Meyers doubled and scored the winning run on a Zeller single, propelling Hiller & Hamm into the Dill Bros, advanced to the championship without a loss. One win over Hiller & Hamm would have given the Zion crew the title, while H & H needed to sweep a pair in order to be crowned champs. . * The champs got off early aid went on to an easy 30-16 victory in the first contest, leaving the out­ come to be decided in a one-game playoff. Hiller & Hamm again took the early lead in the 'sudden death' af­ fair, as RBI hits from Meyers, Zeller and Kurt Valentin gave H & H an early 6-3 advantage. Dill Bros, scored its runs on run- scoring hits from Steve Lane and Fred Reed, and then tightened the score to 6-5 on an RBI single from Doug Hiatt and a double off the bat of Andy Grom. Zeller then continued his hot tournament by driving in Kenny Bottari and Valentin to give H & H some breathing room. Zeller then tallied on a base hit by Meyers. Trailing 9-6, Grom went to work for Dill Bros., knocking in two runs to keep the game extremely tight at 9-8. But Hiller & Hamm again rose to the occasion as Jeff Meyers drove in a run with a triple, and Zeller another tally with a single, to ice the game and the champion­ ship by a final count of 12-10. Maywald captures first feature at Wilmot Golf Play Day planned Auxiliary to the Northern Illinois Medical ly. For more ter will bold its annual Play Day July 22. 385-7832. ; are $35 for lunch and golf, |15 for lunch on- information, call 385-4043 or WILMOT, Wis. -- McHenry resident Jay May wald grabbed his first feature win of the year at the Wilmot Speedway Saturday night, taking the checkered flag in the 20-lap late model sportsman main. Maywald took over the lead in the non-stop race with three laps to go, when leader Larry Cash' of Waukegan was forced out of ac­ tion with mechanical problems. Maywald then held off Doug Wor- man of Round Lake Park and Zion's Wayne Dukas at the finish line. After the race, Worman's engine blew, the engine compart­ ment bursting into flames as he went.off the track. Only quick work by Cash and the track safety crew prevented injury. Also in the late model sport­ sman category, McHenry's DwightDittmer finished second in the 12-lap semifeature. Maywald won the third heat, while Spring Grove's John Fischer was second in heat two. Skip Martin of McHenry had the third fast quali­ fying time, : 20.32. Sid Norton of Wonder Lake was second in the fourth heat. In the track's point standings aS of June 29, Maywald sits in four place in the late model sportsman class, with 387 total points. Dukas leads with 512. Duke Norton of Wonder Lake is fifth (367), Dennis Carlton of McHenry stands sixth (365), Martin is eighth (285) and Sid Norton is 10th (90).