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Round Lake at D CL South at Lake Franklin at Alden-Hebron Hittin' Hornets bury Hurricanes, 27-7 Key turnovers spell difference By Steve Peterson 1 Herald News Service WOODSTOCK - experience. That's how Marian Central foot­ ball Coach Don Penza chooses to view the Hurricanes' 27-7 home loss to Harvard Friday night. "When you play a team that is playing good ball like Harvard Is7you wnTmake mistakes. And they'll helpvou create some. I was pleased in the sense that we gained by leaps and -jbounds from last week (a 40-14 loss to Crystal Lake South). You learn by mistakes and only good can come out of that. We have 11 guys who have just never played ball together and you'll take your lumps against good competition," Penza said. ,' By the time the final second ticked off the clock, the turnover total for the Hurricanes read four fumbles and five interceptions. Harvard scored three times in the first half for a 13-0 lead and all were set up by Marian Central milcues. The story line stayed the same for the second half, with Harvard pick­ ing off an interception in its own-end zone, recovering a fumble and stop­ ping two Marian fourth-quarter drives with a fumble recovery an interception ran back for a touch- d o w n a n d a g a m e - e n d i n g interception. Those results leave little deter­ mined in the Hurricane quarterback battle. Sophomore Jim Hartlieb split the playing time with starter Barry Chapman. 7 . f "We'll keep shuttling them until We find the right combination. Jim A learning is young, it was a learning experi­ ence for him. I still think he'll rise to the occasion," Penza said. Despite all the mistakes, this con­ test was one in which the home team had its chances to win. •r* . * Trailing 13-0 entering the second half, the Hurricanes got the/ball at the Harvard 27 midway through the third quarter. Hartlieb picked up four ok first down on a run, but then ran into a game-long nemesis. Harvard's Ted Hartwig picked off the first of three errant Marian passes to end the drive. He also recovered a fumble. Marian took advantage of Har­ vard's only turnover two plays later. Keith Spengel recovered a loose ball at the Hornets' 18. Marian balked at that opportunity, as Harvard's Hartwig pounced on the ball. Harvard could not get a first down, leading to the Hurricanes most productive drive of the night. Marian started on its own 34-yard- line and elected to grind out the yards using running plays. The Hur­ ricanes' 10-play march featured eight runs. After runs had advanced the ball to Harvard's 34, the Hurricanes got a break when the Hornets were pe­ nalized for interference, giving the Hurricanes a first-and 10 at the Hor­ nets' 24. Hartlieb plunged over from the one five plays later and the Hurri­ canes were close at 13-7 with 8:26 left in the game. Yet another turnover ended any comeback hopes. After Harvard punted, Marian ad­ vanced the ball to the Harvard 41. Tom Parsley's fumble on a would-be draw play wasi then recovered by linebacker Mike Jones. V Jones, then took over his offensive position -- quarterback. On Har­ vard's third play from scrimmage, he found Scott Wynstra wide open in the left flat for a 46-yard touchdown strike. That sealed matters with Harvard leading 20-7 with 2:33 left. Seven seconds later, Harvard struck again. Hartwig picked off a Marian pass and ran down the right sideline 34 yards to complete the 27-7 romp. Marian Central running back Jeff Hill is sur­ rounded by a host of Harvard defenders during Central belts West Chicago By Phil English Herald sports writer CRYSTAL LAKE - Crystal Lake Central coach Bill Mack stood in the middle of Metcalf Field Friday night and rubbed his scratched, bruised forehead. Mack, who injured an area above his left eye demonstrating a block earlier in the week, got a chance to feel first hand how his Tigers feel week after week when making the tackles. But at least now he knows his time isn't wasted. In a strong display of defensive strength, the Tigers held their Fri­ day night opponent, West Chicago, to 150 offensive yards, unofficially, and limited the Wildcats to only one touchdown in a 22-8 win. Friday night's defense was not the v only improvement Mack saw, as his offense racked up 204 total yards, also unofficially. Tailback Joe Adams led all rush­ ers with 59 yards on 13 carries, while quarterback Rob Prosniewski had five carries for 40 yards and Whit Friese had 39 yards on seven car­ ries. Jeff Aldridge had 15 yards on 10 carries. Prosniewski also managed to com­ plete three of four passes for 51 yards, including one touchdown pass and a two-point conversion. "The biggest thing that I was pleased with was we had only two turnovers, so reducing that obvious­ ly made for a big difference," Mack said. "West Chicago does not have a bad team. I just basically felt that our defense was pretty solid." "It's really not that we didn't want to throw against them, we're just inexperienced at it," Mack said of the low, but effective passing totals. "I didn't want him to get killed. Last week, he was running for his life." Mack's point was made during one of the game's nv&re crucial mo­ ments. Central grasped a lonely 15-8 lead, with six minutes remaining in the third quarter, and West Chicago was on the verge of the game stopper. Following an 11-play drive from their own 38 to the Tiger 15, the Wildcats held onto a third and one. Quarterback John Walsh handed off to peksy halfback Zack Snowden,' who was crushed for a four yard loss by a fired up Tiger defense. On the ensuing fourth and three, Walsh backed up to pass, only to meet a flurry of three orange shirts, who dro • him to the ground and sent his pass short of the mark. Th< star.r! 1oft the Wildcats with little cieir sails, and the Tigers •• on to add on to their tally and. -ame. The seritb «. as similar to that car­ ried by the Wildcats earlier in the game, when they drove from deep in their own territory and scored what v would be their lone touchdown of the game. "Our defense hung in there and didn't get discouraged," Mack said. "We can't do a lot of things because we have so much inexperience. We just have to line up and play." West Chicago only threatened to score topice, and managed to get * inside Tiger territory a like number %of times. Central got on the board 'early on its first series from scrimmage. Falling into several third and long situations, the big plays came out of hiding, including Prosniewski's 19-' yard scramble on third and 15. Central got close to the goal line on Friese's 14 yard scamper on a second and 11 situation. One play later, Prosniewski rolled out left and lobbed a perfect pass to Craig Kingston, who caught the ball on the goal line. An offsides play moved the ball half way to the goal, and Ad­ ams' two-point run up the middle gave Central an 8-0 lead. West Chicago failed to move the ball on their next two downs, when cornerback Chris Diserio picked off Walsh's pass and took it to the Wild­ cat 20. Friese carried the first play eight yards to the 12, while Adams' 12- yard run up the middle brought the score to 14-0. Jeff Stowell's kick was good for a 15-0 lead. Following West Chicago's 16-play touchdown, the.half ended at 15-8. The third quarter resulted in Cen­ tral's two turnovers, an interception and fumble, as the ball went back and fourth on the field. Central took the ball at the 3:10 mark of the fourth, following a 22 yard Wildcat punt. Friese mov<jd the ball two yards on the first carry, before Prosniewski connected with end William Walker on a 41-yard bomb, bringing the ball to the Wild­ cat eight. Adams carried the ball two more times, including the up the middle touchdown run, giving the Tigers a 22-8 lead and iced the game. Central had one final chance to pile the score up, with 1:50 left, cornerback Mike Bachmann picked off a Walsh pass and brought it to theWilcat 15. Herald photo by Bob Palermini Central quarterback Rob Prosniewski finds a hole in the West Chicago defense during action from Friday night's game at Metcalf Field. Central went on to win 22-8. Blue Streaks topple Carmel Fourth-quarter defensive stand highlights win By Sam Natrop Herald sports editor WOODSTOCK -- To say that Ken Kohley caught a clutch fourth-quar­ ter pass by a thread might need some clarification. You see, the thread by which the Woodstock High School tight end snared the ball may well have been his own. Kohley, a senior two-way player for the Streaks, sliced his hand Thursday and needed five stitches in the index finger on his left hand. "It hurts. Man, it hurts. I think I ripped the stitches out right away in the first quarter the first time I grabbed at someone," an exhausted Kohley said after his team put up a tremendous fourth-down stand late in the fourth quarter as the Streaks held off a tough Carmel High School squad, 10-7, at Larry Dale Field. The hard-hitting battle will more than likely be remembered for two key plays: Kohley's six-yard diving reception on a third-down-and-five play with two minutes to play; and Woodstock's staunch defensive ef­ fort that held Carmel on a fourth- down-and-two nVy just moments earlier. But to only recall those two plays does a great injustice to other out­ standing moments in the contest, x For one, Duane Pohlman's 28-yard field goal in the first quarter provid­ ed the winning margin for a team that attempted only one field goal all of last season. For another, Kohley recovered a fumble moments after his outstand­ ing catch. Quarterback -Timm Fields, after scrambling out of the pocket attempting to pass, was drilled by Carmel's Pat McCaulty and fumbled. Kohley alertly fell on the loose ball. For another, a strong Woodstock pass rush led by Jim Kersten, Dick Pope and Tim Briscoe forced Car­ mel quarterback John Terlap to hur­ ry most of his passes. In the first three periods, Terlap was 2-for-10 for 49 yards. And for another, the Streak de­ fense didn't allow Carmel to sustain a ball-control drive until the fourth quarter when Terlap threw five- and 10-yard passes to his receivers. "It was a gutsy game. We were tired, it was awful hot down here," a relieved Blue Streak coach Bob Bradshaw said. "But,we gutted it out on our own. I thought the defense was outstanding, and I thought Koh- leysmade a great catch right here." Carmel took the ball at its own 29 with 6:26 to play and manufactured its only drive of the contest. Terlap completed five of nine passes on the drive for 41 yards and | 15-yard interference penalty on the Streaks helped move the ball to the 23. After two straight incompletions, Terlap found Bob Offner, who caught a tipped pass, for seven yards to the 16. On fourth and two, Carmel halfback Rod Whittier tried the middle .of the line, but John Peters, Jeff Hoch, Kohley and Dick Pope stuffed the play and help Whit­ tier one yard short. The Streaks then took over, and were able to run out the clock. The defensive stand was a perfect end to a pretty awful night for the Blue Streaks. They continually hurt themselves with penalties at the wrong time. On the opening kickoff, Bob Birdsell look the ball from Woodstock's it to the Corsairs' 30 only to have the played called back because of clipping.? Later in the quarts Hardsell re­ turned a punt from the Wff|3 15 to the 43, but again the plaf*wasvcalled back for a clip. And in the third quarter, Fields hit Briscoe with a 25-yard pass that was called back because of offensive pass interference. All of those problems added to the fact that WHS receivers dropped at least five passes causing the offense to sputter. "I am not at all pleased with the offense," Bradshaw concurred. "Our game plan was to control the ball, but we never really did that. Plus, the * penalties killed us. We weren't thinking at times." A Birdsell interception midway through the first quarter set up the Streaks' first score. Birdsell} who also played an outstanding two-way game, returned the ball to the Car­ mel 24. Woodstock then took the ball to the 10 before stalling. Pohlman's field goal at the 3:31 mark was the only score of the quarter. Five plays into the second period, Whittier cut off left tackle on a third and four play and burst away from WHS defenders for a 65-yard scoring STREAKS-Page 12 Herald photo by ,Amy K. Brown the Hornets' 27-7 triumph Friday night at George Harding Field. Saturday, September 7,1985 hurt Warriors ' • * By Chris Juzwik Herald sports writer MCrfENRY - Ouch. This one hurt. Bad. * This was a game McHenry's War­ riors wanted to win. It was a game they needed to win. But, ultimately, it was a game they didn't want to win bad enough. McHenry was looking to rebound from a disheartening 8-6 loss to Riv- erside-Brookfield last week. But Grant had other ideas. Both squads took McCracken Field with 0-1 sea­ son marks, and, even from the out­ set, there was no doubt as to which team was the hungrier. The Warriors had Grant well scouted. As the two teams lined up for the opening kickoff, McHenry's staff warned the Warrior kicking team: "Watch the reverse." They saidhit once, they repeated it, and they repeated it again -- loudly -- just for good measure. But the warning fell on deaf ears. Sure enough, Grant's Kevin Frystak took the reverse handoff and ram­ bled to the Warrior 40. A six-play drive was capped by Frystak's five yard burst, and the sophomore back jaunted in for the two-point conver­ sion to give the Bulldogs an 8-0 lead. "We told 'em," MCHS coach Joe Schlender said. "We told 'em about the reverse, but they just didn't do anything about it." It really wasn't McHenry's night. The Warriors drove inside the Grant 15 once and came up empty, and had a touchdown called back on a penalty. After each team wasted a posses­ sion, McHenry got the ball back at the Grant 49 after a punt. On the first play from scrimmage, fullback Dana Pitel faked inside, and went around left end for the touchdown. The conversion failed, making the score 8-6. Frystak made his presence felt again, this time, a little stronger. He promptly grabbed the ensuing kick- off, and cruised up the middle for a 79-yard touchdown return. Fullback Jim Wanhala then added the two- pointer, and Grant led 16-6. McHenry started its next drive at its own 35. Pitel and Jim Shaver each toted once, before split end Curt Justen took a handoff on an end around, and zipped down the right sideline for a 42-yard score. Quarter­ back Mark Jinga then hit Pitel with the conversion pass to bring the Warriors to 16-14 with : 17 to go in the first quarter, but tfcat was the end of McHenry's scoring for the night. After a scoreless second quarter, the Warriors seemed to come to life. They took the opening second half boot and drove to the Bulldog three. J i n g a h i t s e n i o r s p l i t e n d M i k e Schultz for 12'yards to keep the drive alive, and then, on a third-and- 10 from the Grant 30, Jinga fired WARRIORS-Page 12 Missed chances