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Fox Hole Tap advances in 12" playoffs By Herald News Service McHENRY - Fox Hole Tap sur­ vived the first night of the McHenry Men's 12-inch Softball League play­ offs with a pair of wins, advancing to the Eastern Division finals against Jack's Snack Shop-McHen- ry Oil. That best-of-three series will be­ gin next Monday, with the winner moving on to the league finals. Fox Hole topped a scrappy Brake Parts Club 19-11, and then rallied to edge Gambler East, 14-13. , In game one Monday, Gambler East routed Greg's Never Inn 21-6, pounding out 22 hits in the slaugh­ ter-shortened contest. J With an upset in mind, Greg's got off early with four runs in the first., Brian Wilson led off with a single, and scored when Rick Neiss wal­ loped an inside-the-park homer. Gary Guetzloff and Tom Jablonski followed with singles, and Dwayne Oeffling and Tom Sharp brought Gambler East dumped in extra-inhing Eastern Division semifinal both players home. But in the bottom of the inning, Gambler quickly made its presence felt, banging out 10 hits, including five straight to open the bottom half of the first. Terry Hovseth and Don Wicker- sham singled, Fred Stocker and Don Prazak followed with run-scor- ing base hits, John Michaels knocked in a run with a double, and Tom Nusbaum tied the score with a sac fly. Joe Ubrig singled in a run, Chris Felde and Pat Hagberg sin­ gled to load the bases, and that brought the top of the order up again. Hovseth singled in a pair and Wickersham knocked in another, to move Gambler ahead, 8-5. Gambler increased its bulge with five in the second and four in the third to. take a commanding 17-5 lead. All-Stars picked for 16" league By Herald News Service McHENRY -- The McHenry Men's 16-inch Softball League has announced its lineup for the Aug. 23 all-star battle against the McHenry Men's Industrial 16-inch Softball League. The team was selected by a bal­ loting among league managers. Raymond's Bowl-Huff's Decorat­ ing, tied for the league lead with an ll-l record, led the way with four starters named to the squad. At short centerfield will be Ron Wiznewski, hitting .511. Power-hit­ ting Dan Miller, hitting .533, leading the circuit in RBI with 43, and tied for the league lead in homers, and being knotted for third in triples, will play shortstop. Auxiliary hitter Terry Hovseth, tied for the league batting lead at .647, will also start, as will outfielder Jim Knox, also at .647. All four are from Raymond's- Huff's. Tied for first place in the circuit is Palace Bowl-Dean Concrete, which placed a pair of players on the unit. Tony Aiello, hitting .563, while holding down second in the league in doubles, will start at first. At third base will be Frank Simmons, whose five homers are tied for the league lead. Five other teams are represented in the starting lineup. Third place Knights of Columbus will have pitcher Chris Juzwik on the hill. Fourth place Decker Construction will be represented by outfielder Joe Ubrig, third in hitting at .615. After the Fox, currently in fifth place in the league, will have sec­ ond baseman Tom Kearns in a starting role. H&M Machinery Movers will have outfielder Brad Hutter appear­ ing. Hutteris hitting .531, and is tied for the homer lead. Also, Bob Hetterman of Old Bridge will catch. Other players selected to the squad are Palace-Dean's Tim Frantz and Phil Creden, Ray- mond's-Huff's Mark Mayer and Bernie Klapperich, Decker's Brian Miller, Kevin Miller and Jim Gra- bowski, Knights of Columbus'Tom Sharp, After the Fox's Ed Keating, H&M's Jeff Cychner and Novotny Sales-McHenry Truck Lines Randy Vauk. The game against the Industrial League stars will be Friday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. at the VFW. The league champions will pair up in a contest following the all-star game, and a home run hitting contest will be held between games. „ Greg's was led by Neiss' two hits and four RBI. Ubrig went 4-for-4 for the win­ ners, driving in three runs. Nus­ baum and Hovseth had three hits each, with Nusbaum contributing four RBI and Hovseth three. Felde had three hits and three RBI. Mi­ chaels, Wickersham and Prazak chipped in two hits each, but Prazak reinjured a leg muscle and retired for the evening, hurting Gambler's chances. In game two, Fox Hole Tap led comfortably over Brake Parts, 10-0 after two, but Brake Parts clawed back, finally pulling to within 15-8 after five, but Fox Hole pulled away to win, 19-11. Brake Parts had to go with a three-man outfield as four of the team's players were involved in an­ other tournament. Fox Hole got out in the first when Wayne Hiller and Rich Meyers sin­ gled and scored on a single by Mark Vogt. Vogt then crossed the plate when Kurt Valentin crushed a homer to left field. In the second, FHT sent 10 hitters to the plate, with four extra base hits, the big blow a two-run triple by Hiller. Brake Parts averted the run rule loss with six in the fifth, sending up 11 batters with six hits, and three Fox Hole errors helping open the gates. Jim Heard had a two-run single in the inning, while Rick Setser, Rich Lindquist and Ed Messman all chipped in RBI hits in the frame. \ Heard, Lindquist and Messman all had three hits for Brake Parts, with Heard driving in three runs. Mark Peschke and Dave Mansfield added two hits apiece. For Fox Hole, Hiller had three hits and three runs scored, while Valentin, Mark Schultz and Gary Gilpin all added three hits to the 24- hit FHT attack.' Vogt, Meyers, Doc Fowler and Mike Peterson chipped in two hits each. Gambler East's Mike Lindal slammed a three-run homer to left in the first inning to stake his squad to a 34 lead, and that bulge in­ creased to p-2 in the third, when Ubrig drove in three with an inside- the-park homer, and Stocker later added a two-run single. Hovseth also had an RBI hit in the frame. But FHT came back with four in its half of the third. Meyers and Valentin had RBI hits, while Vogt drove in a pair with a double, mak­ ing it 9-6, Gambler. Arndt drove in Michaels and Nus­ baum with a hit in the fourth to make it 11-6, but in the fifth, Fox Hole got four of its own on RBI hits from Peterson and Gilpin and a two- run base rap by Jim Yaworski Still Fox Hole trailed 11-10. In the seventh, Gambler took a 13- 10 edge after Hovseth scored Arndt with a sac fly, and Wickersham knocked in Ken Prazak with a single. But the resilient Fox Hole squad came back with three in the bottom of the stanza. Hiller led off with a triple, Meyers knocked him in with a double, Vogt scored Meyers with another triple, and then scored on a throwing error to tie it. The two teams then traded futile scoring opportunities until the bot­ tom of the ninth. Valentin led off with a blast to right center for a double. Yaworski then drove a low liner to right which Ubrig dived for, but came up short, Valentin scoring to end the contest. Wednesday, August 14,1985 It's life in the trenches with 'my son, the football player' Faust, Fazio face pivotal seasons Boys of Fall, Part II Don't tell me, let me guess: Your son left home early Mon­ day morning to attend his first football practice, and you're worried about him. You're worried he's going to become a barbarian. You're wor­ ried he's going to think of hurting people as often as he thinks of Madonna. And, most of all, you're worried he's going to get hurt. Whew. Talk about putting a parent in a bind. Of all the in­ stances a parent can get firmly wedged between being too over- protective or hearing a 'mom, dad, c'monnnnnn,' going out for that first football team must be one of the most difficult. The truth be told, there are six words a parent dreads hearing for the first time: 'I wanna go out for ... (here, the parent cringes and swallows hard, hop­ ing the son will next spit out badminton, water polo or cross­ The most positive thing a par­ ent can hope for is that the child is in the hands of coach who is a teacher. A person who will teach discipline as well as fundamen­ tals, teamwork as well as footwork. Of course, the parent isn't al­ ways too sure of what is going on while Junior is at football prac­ tice for two-odd hours a day. (Is 4 the coach throwing footballs . through my son's faceguard?) [ But, at least the parent knows \ where the child is at. Non-foot­ ball parents can't always say the same. So your son's playing football. Don't fret. He may not do very well. He may suffer a small inju­ ry. He might amble home tired after a tough workout. He may view a lot of the games from the sidelines. But 1^'s bound to bene­ fit from the experience in one way or another. After all, he could be twins. 4 By Pohla Smith UPI sports writer PITTSBURGH -- Foge Fazio was chugging up Cardiac Hill to his Pitt Stadium office after an autumn- morning jog when he noticed a local TV truck parked in the lot just out­ side the stadium's sports informa­ tion office. A few minutes later his mother, sounding very upset, telephoned and, in a roundabout way, ex­ plained: A local morning-radio host had broadcast a barroom rumor he'd heard the previous night that the beleaguered Fazio was going to announce his resignation at the lun­ cheon. The rumor had run through the town like a tornado and when Fazio arrived at his luncheon, he found the TV crew among a huge crowd of reporters waiting to record the momentous event. Out in South Bend, Ind., Fazio's old buddy Gerry Faust -- Fazio coached at the University of Cincin­ nati at the same time Faust ran the nationally respected prep program at that city's Moeller High -- was encountering similar resignation ru­ mors and other ludicrous events. An "Oust Faust" sign had popped up in the Notre Dame football-crazy community just hours after the Irish opened the 1984 season with a McHenry High School and head varsity coach Joe Schlender opened their football season of­ ficially Monday with the start of practice. Above, assistant coa­ ch Bob Ludwigsen tells a group of prospective linemen how to block, and then goes through the drill with them, right. The Warriors open their season Aug. 31 against Riverside-Brookfield. Herald photos by Chris Juzwik . country ... but instead come up with the inevitable) football.' Ooooh. It's as if the world, made of unclasped safety pins, has suddenly caved in on your waterbed. 'Where, oh where,' the mother cries, 'did I go wrong? I bore a fine, healthy baby. I fed him, clothed him, kept him warm, turned the night light on, drove him to kindergarten on time ev­ ery day. I let him wear black concert t-shirts even when they were gauche. And now, this. Foot...ball.' And, of course, the father sits off in the corner bursting with glee at the possibilities. 'My son,' he says to himself. 'My big, tough son. I threw him Nerf fo^K->1!e' when he was just a tot. Even when that first one hit him in the face, he didn't cry. No sir. He was so TOUGH! And now, look. He's going to be a star beyond all stars. His coaches Chris Juzwik Herald sports writer don't know what they've got here. A diamond in the rough? This kid's the Crown Jewel in the rough, for heaven's sakes. Just like his old man. Raw speed, power, quickness. And tough? Oh man, is he tough. My son, the football star. Yeah!' The scene was probably re­ played in thousands of homes in thousands of cities in the past few weeks, as high school foot­ ball was set to open for another year. Parents of junior and senior gridders, and to a certain extent, sophomores, have become accus­ tomed to the thought of their teenage heirs tightening shoul­ der pads, adjusting hip pads and strapping on helmets for football practice. It's the parents of the fresh­ men who are the most con­ cerned, and well they should be. Sending a child of 14 out into an unknown world of grunting, tack­ ling and blocking is a frightening proposition at best. 23-21 upset loss to Purdue. Worse yet, the long adored foot­ ball team had itself been booed leaving the field after three straight losses at home, prompting the play­ ers to have a meeting at which they declared they would play the rest of the season for themselves -- not for the student body. Nine months later, Fazio and Faust are still the head coaches at the University of Pittsburgh and Notre Dame respectively, busily preparing for seasons they hope will erase the bad memories of 1984. Despite the vitriolic criticism both men suffered last year, neither would dream of quitting a job he had worked a lifetime to attain. And so far, at least, the universities have not been willing to quit on the men they hired to carry on their proud football traditions. Both Fazio and Faust acknowl­ edge they feel pressure, but it is pressure generated by their jobs and their own standards rather than that generated by alumni, fans and the press. "I felt pressure the very first day, the day I became coach," Fazio says. "It isn't something I wish was not there, though, because I consid­ er it to be part of the job and I love my job.