– Although Glenbard West remains closed this week for repairs to 29 classrooms in the wake of a collapsed ceiling, the school`s schedule for athletic practices and events will not be affected. Classes have been canceled since Wednesday after plaster fell from a classroom ceiling Tuesday afternoon.
SOCCER
– All Maine South coach Steve Dezurko wants is a break. You know, a dribbler here, a penalty kick there. Instead, all the Hawks got last week was the opposite.
Maine South lost 2-0 to Gordon Teach Saturday, after falling to Palatine by the same score Thursday.
”We had two called back Saturday and two hit the post,” Dezurko said.
”We dominated play. Gordon had six shots.
”Against Palatine, we outshot them 21-7 and lost. We missed three shots within five yards. We had a breakaway and two of our guys ran into each other. One guy goes for a header and it hits his nose instead of his head.
”It was a tough week. That`s why I`m into Alka-Seltzer.”
– Eisenhower isn`t in the Tribune`s Top 10, but one of its players, Heriberto ”Tico” Esparza is one of the state`s top players. A senior center forward, Esparza has 71 career goals.
”Tico is extremely dangerous with either foot,” said Eisenhower coach Jose Barrientos. ”He`s speedy, talented and he can do it all. His passing, dribbling and sense of the field is outstanding. He can score against any opponent.”
Barrientos, whose team was 11-7-2 last year, believes it can challenge for the South Inter-Conference Association East Division title this season.
”We have a stronger midfield than in the past three seasons, with four excellent midfielders on the team,” he said. ”I also believe with Tico that we have one of the strongest forward lines in the Chicagoland area.”
The Cardinals` possible Achilles heel? ”We have little experience in goal,” said Barrientos. ”But, that position will be assisted by a strong defense.”
– Thornton High School is looking for a soccer coach. Contact Thornton athletic director Ed Fredette at 596-1000 for more information.
VOLLEYBALL
– All-tournament team at the Reebok Challenge, one of the premier high school volleyball tournaments in the country: Krystal Attwood, Mira Costa, Calif.;
Barb Bella, Oak Forest; Elaine Caraher, Sandburg; Jennifer Haggerty, Homewood- Flossmoor; Piper Hahn, Mira Costa; Jenny Johnson, Sandburg; Michele Kohler, Richards; Sue Novak, Richards; Kristin Sobcocinski, Milwaukee Pius XI; Sue Wronski, Morther McAuley. Caraher was voted the most valuable player by the coaches.
– Sandburg coach Joanne Mutsch after finishing second to Mira Costa in the Reebok Challenge: ”The kids gave me everything they had. I can`t be more proud of them. They busted their butts two days in a row.” The Eagles were without the services of starting middle blocker Kim Nelson, who`s nursing a twisted knee.
– The red in Nancy Wichgers Pedersen`s face Saturday in the semifinals of the Reebok Challenge almost matched the color of her slacks. To put it mildly, the Mother McAuley coach was livid; livid with the officials, livid with her team and livid with herself. The Mighty Macs defeated Sandburg 15-10 in the first game, then led 11-10 in the Game 2 before losing 16-14. McAuley then raced to a 9-2 lead in the third game before coming unraveled. Sandburg`s Cara Higgins had seven straight service points, a couple points coming on questionable calls, to turn a 10-5 deficit into a 12-10 lead. McAuley battled back from a 14-10 deficit before falling 16-14. ”It (collapse) kind of was my fault,”
said Pedersen. ”I`m usually real calm. Now we`re all mad because Mira Costa is going back to California and we didn`t get to play them.”
– Tournament director John Hasemeyer hopes to have 24 teams in next year`s Reebok Challenge. He`s in the process of confirming commitments from such national powers as Cardinal Gibbons (Fla.), Sweet Home (N.Y.), Seton (Ohio), Norwin (Pa.), McGill-Toolen (Ala.), Columbia Heights (Minn.), University
(Hawaii) and Clearlake (Tex.). Mira Costa, which won Friday and Saturday`s 16-team event, could have a dynasty by next year`s tournament. The Mustangs don`t have a senior on the team and they`re playing without standout middle blocker Victoria Tavsner, who will undergo knee surgery Tuesday and miss the entire season.
– Lyons has lost the services of coach Marge McKee indefinitely while she recovers from an Aug. 29 car accident. McKee was pinned against a tree by a van and suffered a broken arm. She`s scheduled to have surgery Sept. 22. How quickly she returns will depend on whether there is a lot of nerve damage.
– It`s beginning to sound like a broken record, but Immaculate Conception`s Eileen Shannon continues to play phenomenally. ”She`s really pounding the ball,” Knights coach Jean Field said after watching Shannon record 18 kills in a 15-4, 13-15, 15-13 title game victory over Palatine in the Glenbard West Invitational. ”She dominated. She was overpowering.”
BASEBALL
– College and major league scouts take note! Who said high school baseball has ran its course with the summer leagues? Well, it just isn`t so. Brother Rice, Chicago Vocational, Curie, Fenger, Harlan, Mt. Carmel, St. Ignatius and Simeon will meet in the 3d Chicago Vocational fall baseball tournament at Harlan Park, Mt. Vernon Park and Jackson Park Sept. 19 through Oct. 1. The winner of the double-elimination event will be crowned either Sept. 30 or Oct. 1. First- round pairings: Fenger vs. Brother Rice at Mt. Vernon Park; Curie vs. CVS at Mt. Vernon Park, Simeon vs. Mt. Carmel at Jackson Park and St. Ignatius vs. Harlan at Harlan Park. All games will start at 3:30 p.m.
BASKETBALL
– Former Providence-St. Mel and Elmwood Park basketball coach Tom Shields is a busy man at his new school, North Boone High School in Poplar Grove. Shields, who led St. Mel to the 1985 Class A state title, is the athletic director, head football and basketball coach and assistant baseball coach at North Boone, which has an enrollment of about 300 and is near Rockford. He also teaches two health classes. ”I`ve always been a three-sport man,” he said.
”I`m really enjoying this.” North Boone`s football team is 0-2.
GOLF
– Mundelien`s John Gollwitzer has been picked by the Illinois Junior Golf Association to play in the Orange Bowl International Junior in December. Gollwitzer and Rockford Guilford`s John Hinde will represent the IJGA.
– Lake Forest coach Chuck McDermond won his 300th dual meet Saturday at Lake Bluff Golf Club as the Scouts won three duals. McDermond, who has been coaching 31 years, won Nos. 300, 301 and 302. His team shot 334. Carmel was at 343, Waukegan East at 345 and Waukegan West at 393. Sean McInerny of Carmel and Paul Parski of Waukegan East were medalists with 79s.
– Defending Class AA state champion St. Charles got off to a great start with a victory in the Batavia Invitational. New Saints coach Rob Prentiss couldn`t have been happier with his team`s 299 total at the par-72 Fox Valley Country Club.
”I told the kids I`d be ecstatic with 300 and they did one better,” he said. ”A couple of coaches told me at breakfast `What are you worried about? You`re going to win.` But it was the first time for me and I just wanted to see how we`d do.”
Senior Jon Hardison was tournament medalist with a 71, thanks to four birdies and a bogey. Ken Vanko, who had three birdies and five bogeys, was third with a 74 and Chuck Kanute was eighth with a 76. Ted Kruse was the Saints` other scorer with a 78. Steve Mueller had an 80 and Tim Carlson an 84 in nonscoring rounds.
– There were a lot of unhappy coaches at the Waukegan East Invitational on Saturday but their moods had nothing to do with the tournament, won by defending state champion Regina Dominican. The Illinois High School Association regional and sectional pairings were the topic of conversation. This year, several top north suburban teams, including Regina and Glenbrook South, will be sent to the Naperville sectional, which already has Homewood-Flossmoor, Hinsdale Central and Naperville North. Just three teams will survive.
”I hope it`s a mistake,” said Naperville North coach Ed Rosenthal.
”They have always said you might not get the best teams in the state to the tournament but the best teams in each area. That`s not going to be true. The west and south suburbs are not going to be well represented. You don`t put the two top teams in the state (Regina and H-F) in the same sectional. What`s going to happen is you`re going to get five teams from the north suburbs and one from the south and west since there will also be a north sectional.”
Rosenthal, who figures his team`s chances of qualifying for the state meet under the old pairings were pretty good, isn`t the only one who can`t believe the pairings.
”It`s unbeliveable,” said Regina coach Vi Reego. ”We have to drive to Naperville North? What`s going to happen is there will be some teams from the north suburbs make it Downstate with higher scores than some who don`t go.”
One of the other quirks of the prospective sectional pairings could send Providence to Rockford. They will almost drive through Naperville on their way north.
– Regina showed good depth in winning at Waukegan East. Regina got a 92 from fifth player Stephanie Klug to break a tie at 351 with H-F.
”I was very pleased,” said Reego. ”It was sort of funny. I heard we lost by one, lost by two, won by one and tied before it was official. It is nice having all five scores being used. Everybody is happy when you win and use five scores. All five contribute then.”
CROSS COUNTRY
– Boys comings and goings: Fremd won`t have standout Bill Gould this year. He has moved to California. Lake Park got a boost when Scott Williamson, fourth in the Class A state meet last year, transfered from Wheaton Christian. Williamson finished second in the Lake Park Invitational on Saturday.
– Girls comings and goings: Hinsdale Central will be running without sophomore Diana Hill. Hill, who was fifth in the state meet last year, is going out for swimming. She missed all of last spring`s track season with a hip injury. Hersey is a team to watch this fall, especially since Lisa Winters moved in from Minnesota. Winters, a junior, won the Peoria Woodruff Invitational in 12:20 on Detweiller Park, the site of the state meet. The Huskies, with Kathy Fremgen returning, figured to be a state contender before Winters arrived.
– Downers Grove North has a big addition to its squad from the soccer team. Cindy McMillan had never run competitively until this season and she was fifth in the Homewood-Flossmoor Invitational, the first big meet she had ever run in.
”I have been trying to get her out for the last two years,” said Trojan coach Bruce Ritter, whose team won the H-F meet. ”We knew she had some talent. She has no running background, so she`ll get better every week. We do some testing in gym class and teachers kept telling me `This kid can run.”
Freshman Erica Chesny is also a newcomer who has made Downers North one of the top contenders for the Class AA state title. Caroline Tracy, who won the individual title at H-F, leads the Trojans.
”We have some depth,” said Ritter, who returns six of his top seven from last year`s fourth-place team in the state meet. ”It`s a long season and anything can happen. We`re advancing quicker than I thought we would and I don`t think we`re peaking.”
– Defending state champion Hoffman Estates has a great 1-2 in Dawn Barefooot and Rachel Lyons, who were 12th and 18th in last year`s state meet, but you need five runners to win.
”Out front, we`re strong,” said Hawks coach Gary Barker, ”but we`re hurting off the back end. Our four and five runners are way back there. Our big goal is to make it Downstate. I think we`ve got two runners who can run in the top 10 but we need help at the tail end. We`re back where we were two years ago. We need improvement from the 4-5 to make it down for the fourth year in a row.”
THE LIST
St. Charles golfer Ken Vanko, the top individual returnee from last year`s state meet, lists his favorite golf courses:
1. Pinehurst No. 7: ”Just beautiful.”
2. Chicago Golf Club: ”A close second.”
3. Edgewood Tahoe: ”A beautiful course.”
4. Lick Creek: ”It`s something different, fun.”
5. Ohio State Scarlet: ”Great layout.”
