This article summarizes a soccer game between Glenbard East and Wheaton North high schools. Glenbard East, which has an undefeated record of 11-0-3, defeated Wheaton North 1-0. The lone goal was scored by Sal Gutierrez, assisted by Miguel Rosales. Glenbard East goalkeeper Sean Glennon made 10 saves to secure the victory. The win marked an unusual achievement for Glenbard East, as they had never previously beaten Wheaton North or Wheaton Warrenville South.

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4 FRIDAY
OCTOBER 4, 2002
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It’s academicBy Mike Pankow
Tribune staff reporter
In the bizarre world of
professional wrestling,
brutes, daredevils and psy-
chopaths are everywhere.
Thus the allure of a Chris
Nowinski.
At 6 feet 5 inches and 270
pounds, the Hersey gradu-
ate has just about every at-
tribute you would want in a
young wrestling wannabe.
Then there’s that Harvard
degree ...
And a unique shtick is
created.
“I’m your typical Har-
vard stereotype,” said No-
winski, a 1996 Tribune
Scholar-Athlete who wres-
tles in the World Wrestling
Entertainment circuit. “I’m
a rich, snobby, arrogant guy
who’s had everything hand-
ed to him his whole life.”
Nowinski portrays a
pompous villain who boats
excessively of his educa-
tion.
“But it’s not the real me,”
said Nowinski, 24. “I can be
arrogant. I can be snobby. So
I’m comfortable playing
that role.”
Nowinski, who holds a de-
gree in sociology and gradu-
ated from Harvard in 2000,
turned down a full-time job
with a pharmaceutical bio-
tech consulting firm in Bos-
ton. He opted for wrestling
boots and spandex shorts
over business attire.
“People say that this isn’t
worth a Harvard graduate’s
time,” Nowinski said.
“That’s ridiculous. I think
[wrestling] is the hardest
job I’ve ever had.”
Nowinski tours the coun-
try as member of the WWE’s
“Raw” roster. Whether it’s
dropping elbows on an op-
ponent, getting slammed to
the mat, crashing through
A degree of dif ference
© 2002 World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (all rights reserved)
Chris Nowinski, a Harvard graduate, drop-kicks opponent Bubba Ray Dudley in a recent match in Milwaukee.
The appeal?
Photo courtesy of Harvard University
Nowinski was a defensive lineman for Harvard when it
had Division I-AA’s sixth-best rushing defense in 1999.
Chris Nowinski, a
Hersey graduate and
a 1996
Tribune
Scholar-
Athlete
(left),
played football at
Harvard before he
leaped into the world
of pro wrestling
entertainment. That’s
a surprising choice
for a Harvard grad,
but therein lies his
marketability.
PLEASE SEE NOWINSKI, PAGE 10
By Alan Sutton
Tribune staff reporter
Hundreds of high schools in
Illinois will celebrate home-
coming this fall, but few will
revel in this tradition like the
students of Vernon Hills.
The school’s football team
truly is coming home.
Friday night will be a cele-
bration of firsts for the school,
in its third year of operation
and third season of varsity
football. Much like the Bears,
the Cougars have played their
“home” games on the road—in
this case, at Libertyville.
But not this time. Vernon
Hills’ players will walk to
their very own stadium for a
North Suburban Prairie game
against North Chicago.
The school will welcome the
members of its first and only
graduating class, the Class of
2001, to the game. Former play-
ers like Jason Newberger, now
a freshman at Iowa, are ex-
pected to be on hand.
And first place will be on the
line in the North Suburban
Prairie as Vernon Hills (4-1,
1-0) will be trying to erase the
sting of a 57-25 loss to the War-
hawks last season.
“Everybody’s talking about
coming back for homecom-
ing,” said Vernon Hills athlet-
ic director Al Janulis, busy
with last-minute details as
game day approached.
“The stadium seats1,500 and
we’re anticipating a much big-
ger crowd.”
“Field of Dreams” is the
homecoming theme. Actually,
this field will carry the name
Rust-Oleum Stadium. The
Vernon Hills paint manufac-
turer donated $100,000 and
paint to gain the naming
rights for the $1.8 million facil-
ity.
Even the scoreboard has a
sponsor, thanks to a donation
from nearby Computer Dis-
count Warehouse in this cor-
porate park on Milwaukee
Avenue.
The stadium sits in a bowl
just north of the backup navi-
gational system for O’Hare
Airport. The system looks
something like the spaceship
from “Close Encounters of the
This homecoming is the real thing
Vernon Hills
to play 1st game
in own stadium
PLEASE SEE STADIUM, PAGE 10
By Reid Hanley
Tribune staff reporter
Dick Stephens hasn’t been on the
Bartlett sidelines the last two weeks, but
thingshaven’tchangedfortheHawkson
the football field.
Stephens, who started the Bartlett
program in 1997, had heart bypass sur-
gery on Sept. 13 and hopes to return for
the playoffs. In the interim, long-
time Stephens assistant
Tom Meaney has taken
over as interim
coach.
“Our coaches
have been
around Dick for
a long time,”
GAME IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Meaney said. “We just stepped in and
did what our mentor wanted us to do.”
The Hawks defeated rivals Larkin
and Elgin without Stephens but can’t
catch their breath with a trip to Neuqua
Valley slated for Friday. Both teams are
tied with Lake Park for first place in the
Upstate Eight Conference with 3-0 re-
cords. Lake Park is 5-0 overall while
Bartlett and Neuqua Valley are 3-2.
Meaney has called Stephens on a cell-
phone from the field following both vic-
tories. The Illinois High School Associ-
ation has recognized both victories for
Stephens’ career record, giving him 201
victories. The victory over Elgin was
the school’s first over its rival.
“The kids were yelling ‘200’ into the
phone after the Larkin game and ‘201’
last week,” Meaney said.
The entire Bartlett football program
hasbeenplayingforStephens.Eachvic-
tory puts the team closer to the playoffs,
and Stephens has said he’ll be back on
the sidelines in November.
Friday night’s game will take more
than emotion. Neuqua Valley features a
big-play threat in receiver/kick return-
er Jason Horton. He has returned three
opening kickoffs for touchdowns and
caught five passes for 135 yards last
week in a 40-7 victory at DeKalb. The 6-
foot-1-inch,180-pound senior has caught
25 passes for 503 yards and four touch-
downs.
“He might be the conference offen-
sive player of the year,” Meaney said.
“He’s their go-to guy. He’s a player.”
Bartlett (3-2) at Neuqua Valley (3-2)
By Alan Sutton
Tribune staff reporter
Glenbard East senior goal-
keeper Sean Glennon knows
what his team’s opponents
have been thinking the last
few years. They see the Rams
on their schedules—and they
see a victory.
Not this season.
Glenbard East kept its re-
cord unblemished—11-0-3, 4-0
in the DuPage Valley—with a
1-0 victory over Wheaton
North on Thursday.
“This is an unbelievable
year for our team and our pro-
gram,” said Glennon, whose10
saves played a major role in se-
curing this victory. “No one
really gives us a chance. We’re
knocking off Wheatons and
we’ve got the Napervilles com-
ing up. We’ve never really
done that well.”
Glenbard East typically had
been the underdog. Last sea-
son the Rams finished 7-10-2,
although eight of those losses
were by one goal.
“Everyone is gunning for us
now,” said coach Marco Par-
ducci, who in his eighth sea-
son had never before beaten
Wheaton North or Wheaton
Warrenville South.
And now he can win games
by a goal. On this night, Sal
Gutierrez, assisted by Miguel
Rosales, provided Glenbard
East’s only goal with 22 min-
utes 59 seconds left at Whea-
ton’s Hubble Middle School.
Glennon is a three-sport ath-
lete—volleyball and basket-
ball are the others—who
hadn’t been Glenbard East’s
regular goalkeeper until this
season. He took up the posi-
tion as a sophomore and saw
only 30 minutes of varsity
playing time as a junior.
But this season is different.
“We’re playing with a lot of
confidence right now,” said
Glennon, who praised his de-
fense—particularly sweeper
Joe Gajewski. “This was a
nerve-wracking game.”
So Glenbard East remained
perfect—just like the weather
except for the unexpected
shower with 13 minutes left in
the game when the sprinklers
came on at Hubble Middle
School’s field in Wheaton.
Wheaton North had proven
it was capable of handing
Glenbard East its first loss.
The Falcons (4-6-3, 2-3) had
won three of their last four
games—including victories
over Naperville Central and
Lincoln-Way Central.
The Falcons just had no luck
getting the ball by Glennon.
“We created some quality
chances,” Wheaton North
coach Tim McEvily said, “but
we just couldn’t bury one.”
GLENBARD EAST 1,
WHEATON NORTH 0
Rams’
Glennon
blanks
Falcons
Glenbard enjoying
‘unbelievable year’
T
hey have thought about it long and
hard, and they still don’t under-
stand it.
They have scrutinized the game film,
and they still can’t comprehend it.
Truth is, the coaches and players
from Freeport Aquin and Eastland-
Pearl City probably never will figure
out how they managed to score 152
points in a 48-minute high school foot-
ball game last Friday.
That’s right. There were no over-
times in host Aquin’s 78-74 victory.
If this wasn’t a game for the ages, it
was one that wore out the scoreboard
and forced Aquin statistician Doug Tal-
bert to scribble in the margins of his
scoring summary sheet. Typed out, that
summary seems about as long as the
wait at a hot new bistro.
“It was like being at a track meet and
a football game breaks out,” Aquin
coach Martin Janecke said. “It was just
like a basketball game, but instead of a
shooter being hot, the offenses were.
“No matter what they did, the ball
was in the end zone. I can’t explain it. I
can’t tell you why it happened.”
This is a story best told in numbers
… big numbers. The two Northwest Up-
state Illini Conference South schools
scored 21 touchdowns, six of them on
plays that exceeded 40 yards, and piled
up 1,172 yards of total offense.
They punted a grand total of one
time.
Their 152 points set a state record for
a game in which both teams scored. E-
PC set the state mark for most points
scored by a losing team.
“The state’s biggest loser … that’s
what it feels like,” E-PC coach Bill
Johnson said. “It feels lousy.”
The game itself felt surreal to those
in it. Particularly in the second quarter,
when the teams scored four TDs in 1
minute 27 seconds, and in the fourth pe-
riod, a seven-TD affair in which Aquin
used five of them to erase a 60-42 deficit.
Aquin tried a successful onside kick
early in the fourth quarter as much be-
cause it couldn’t stop E-PC anyway as
to help wipe out a 12-point deficit.
“The whole fourth quarter I was in
kind of a dreamland,” said standout E-
PC quarterback Kam Kniss, who threw
for 429 yards and three TDs and ran for
five more scores. “It was like, ‘How can
this be happening? Can this be happen-
ing?’ ”
Kniss, at least, didn’t have to play on
defense. E-PC has just 28 varsity play-
ers and Aquin only 17, so many athletes
had to play both ways, including Aquin
quarterback/free safety Kevin
Schleich.
“You’d be on defense, and two or
three plays later you were back on of-
fense,” Schleich said. “You knew that
there wasn’t much defense being played
by either team, but it didn’t sink in
completely till after the game.”
It’s tempting to assume we’re dealing
with a couple of bumbling football pro-
grams here, but we’re not. Aquin (5-0)
has qualified for the state playoffs the
last four seasons under Janecke, a prac-
ticing dentist. E-PC (4-1), a co-op team
from Lanark Eastland and Pearl City,
was 9-1 last year.
So how could two solid teams go on
this kind of an offensive binge? First of
all, both teams have potent, if different,
offenses. E-PC lines up with four or five
wide receivers and passes frequently,
while Aquin uses a run-oriented wish-
bone attack.
Secondly, both teams used squib
kicks on almost all their many kickoffs,
which shortened the field for their of-
fenses. Lastly, as you might imagine, de-
fensive execution was not at an all-time
best.
“When you start to play football, the
basic thing is when you see someone
who’s not on your team, you tackle
them, and we did not do that,” Johnson
said. “The kids were prepared, but they
weren’t executing.
“It kind of became self-perpetuating
because the more our offense scored,
the more our defense depended on it to
score. It seemed like it was never
enough.”
For E-PC, not even a 74-62 lead was
enough. Aquin rallied on Schleich’s 59-
yard scoring pass to Michael Vogt with
3:47 to play and his 41-yard TD pass to
Joe Janecke with 33 seconds left on a
fourth-and-15 play.
That gave Aquin its 78-74 lead, but no
one exhaled until Kniss’ long pass from
the Aquin 40-yard line fell incomplete
as time expired. The loss and unexpect-
ed fireworks kept the E-PC quarterback
up all night, but that didn’t provide
much insight.
“I really don’t have an explanation
for it,” Kniss said. “First of all, I can’t
even fathom scoring 74 points. Then
when you do, you don’t even score
enough to win the game.
“It’s not very often you score 74
points and lose.”
btemkin@tribune.com
How to score
74 points—and
lose the game
Barry Temkin
INSIDE
FOOTBALL
Magic man
Richmond-Burton
quarterback Donovan Moore
has a few tricks up his
sleeve—off the field too.
GameDay, PAGE 11
boasts

2. BOYS SOCCER
Barrington 2, Hersey 1 (2 OT)
Brother Rice 3, St. Ignatius 0
Buffalo Grove 1, Fremd 0
Cary-Grove 4, Prairie Ridge 1
Crete-Monee 2, Rich E. 0
Downers North 1, Downers South 0
Elk Grove 3, Schaumburg 2 (2 OT)
Fenton 4, Riverside-Brookfield 0
Glenbard East 1, Wheaton North 0
Glenbard S. 2, Batavia 0
Gordon Tech 2, St. Rita 1
Highland Park 3, Deerfield 0
Hoffman Estates 4, Prospect 2
Jacons 3, Lake Zurich 0
Lake Forest 1, Stevenson 1 (OT)
Lake Park 4, Willowbrook 0
Libertyville 3, Mundelein 1
Lincoln-Way C. 2, Lincoln-Way E. 1
Loyola 6, De La Salle 4
Maine S. 3, Niles W. 0
Marmion 6, Driscoll 0
Morris 6, Kaneland 2
Morton 2, York 2 (OT)
Mt. Carmel 6, Bishop McNamara 3
Neuqua V. 8, Streamwood 2
Niles N. 6, Maine E. 2
Oak Lawn 2, Romeoville 1
Oak Park 2, Hinsdale South 2
Oswego 2, Minooka 0
Peotone 3, Grant Park 1
Providence 5, St. Laurence 0
Reavis 3, Bolingbrook 2 (penalty kicks)
St. Charles East 3, Bartlett 0
St. Patrick 4, Leyden 3
Senn 2, Sullivan 1
Timothy C. 2, Illiana Christian 1
Warren 3, Antioch 1
Waubonsie V. 8, Larkin 0
Wheaton A. 7, Chicago Christian 0
Winnebago 1, Byron 1
GLENBARD WEST SHOOTOUT
Glenbard W. 1, Glenbrook S. 0
Sandburg 2, St. Viator 1
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
Assumption (Kent.) d. Mother McAuley
15-8, 15-12
Bartlett d. E. Aurora 15-3, 10-15, 15-9
Barrington d. Fremd 15-3, 15-2
Batavia d. Plainfield S. 15-9, 15-12
Benet d. Nazareth 15-10, 15-8
Bloom d. Shepard 15-4, 15-2
Bremen d. Tinley Park 15-2, 7-15, 15-9
Byron d. Geneva 15-1, 15-1
Cary-Grove d. Dunbar 10-15, 15-5, 15-5
Conant d. Hoffman Estates 15-7, 15-6
Deerfield d. Niles N. 15-9, 15-8
DeKalb d. Neuqua V. 15-11, 15-9
Elgin d. Streamwood 15-8, 15-12
Elmwood P. d. Westmont 6-15, 15-12, 15-12
Fenwick d. St. Viator 15-8, 12-15, 15-10
Geneva d. Oswego 15-9, 15-10
Glenbrook N. d. Maine W. 15-11, 15-2
Glenbard W. d. Morton 15-7, 15-6
Grant d. Wauconda 15-7, 15-6
Harlan d. Fenger 15-3, 15-3
Highland Park d. Maine E. 15-11, 15-7
IHM d. Mother Guerin 15-2, 15-8
Illiana C. d. St Francis de Sales 15-5, 15-5
Joliet Catholic d. St. Ignatius 15-10, 15-6
KelvynParkd.Providence-St.Mel15-3,15-8
L. Zurich d. Cary-Grove 16-14, 11-15, 15-11
Lemont d. Morris 15-2, 15-7
Lincoln-Way C. d. Joliet 12-15, 15-9, 18-16
Lincoln-Way E. d. Lockport 18-16, 15-8
Loyola d. Mt. Assisi 15-5, 10-15, 15-10
M. Catholic d. Providence 6-15, 15-12, 15-6
Marshall d. Ag. Science 10-15, 15-7, 15-7
Minooka d. Sycamore 15-5, 15-10
Naperville Central d. Wheaton North 15-2,
12-15, 15-10
Naperville N. d. Wheaton S. 15-7, 15-8
Plainfield d. Glenbard S. 15-12, 13-15, 15-4
Prairie Ridge d. Jacobs 3-15, 15-4, 15-12
Queen of Peace d. Maria 15-12, 15-1
Reed-Custer d. Plano 15-9, 15-9
Ridgewood d. Elmwood Park 16-14, 10-15,
15-11
St. Charles N. d. Larkin 15-4, 4-15, 19-17
Sandburg d. Andrew 15-8, 15-7
Schaumburg d. Addison Trail 15-12, 10-15,
15-9
Seneca d. Dwight 8-15, 15-9, 15-13
T.F. North d. Eisenhower 9-15, 15-9, 15-6
Timothy C. d. Walther Luth. 15-8, 15-5
Trinity d. Good Counsel 15-7, 15-3
U-High d. St. Scholastica 15-8, 15-9
Waldorf d. Cristo Rey 15-6, 12-15, 15-3
Washington d. Hubbard 15-9, 15-10
W. Aurora d. Glenbard E. 15-10, 15-11
W. Chicago d. Glenbard N. 15-2, 15-8
Willowbrook d. Hinsdale C. 15-5, 15-7
BOYS CROSS COUNTRY
Byron 20, Hampshire 44. Winner: Josh
Baxter, Byron, 16:07 (2.75 miles).
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY
Byron17, Hampshire 41. Winner: Lyndsey
Glass, Byron, 18:06.1 (2.75 miles).
Hinsdale C. 20, Glenbard W. 34. Winner:
Jadran, Glenbard W., 18:48 (3.04 miles).
RICH EAST INVITATIONAL
Final team standings: 1, Andrew 60. 2,
Stagg 90. 3, Plainfield 93. 4, Marian Cathol-
ic 149. 5, Homewood-Flossmoor 165. 6,
Queen of Peace 172. 7, Argo 220. 8, Oak
Forest 223. 9, Thornwood 250. 10, T.F.
South 263. 11, Rich S. 283. 12, Maria 289.
13, Bradley 298. 14, Oak Lawn 323. 15,
Thornridge 408. 16, Rich C. 490.
Individuals
1, Susana Martinez, Maria,17:36. 2, Stepha-
nie Sorn, Argo,17:43. 3, Alison Gremar, Bra-
dley, 18:11. 4, Kylee Hyzer, Plainfield, 18:15.
5, Shannon Roe, Andrew,18:24. 6, Michelle
Farley, Plainfield, 18:35. 7, Dana Bigger,
Plainfield, 18:36. 8, Mary Kate Gergel, Mar-
ian Catholic, 18:43. 9, Niki Anusevich,
Queen of Peace, 18:48. 10, Kathleen Cov-
erick, Stagg, 18:53 (2.95 miles).
BOYS GOLF
Lincoln-Way E.154, Plainfield S.164. Med-
alist: Matt Dreger, Lincoln-Way E., 37.
Lyons 163, Lockport 167, Plainfield 171.
Medalist: James Cosentino, Lyons, 37.
Riverside-Brookfield 164, IMSA 176. Med-
alist: Matt Calby, Riverside-Brookfield, 39.
Yorkville 163 (won 5th score tiebreak),
Sandwich163, Lisle176. Medalist: Jon Bor-
neman, Yorkville, 36.
CENTRAL SUBURBAN SOUTH MEET
Final team standings:1, New Trier 289. 2,
Evanston 305. 3, Glenbrook S. 317. 4, Niles
W. 325. 5, Maine S. 337. 6, Waukegan 358.
Individuals
1, Ben Lenet, Evanston, 70. 2, Michael
Musgjerd, New Trier, 71. 3, Bobby Bennett,
New Trier, 72. 4, Rance Barber, New Trier,
72. 5, Michael Thorsen, New Trier, 74. 6, Eric
Meierdierks, New Trier, 74. 7, Jared Stegar,
New Trier, 75. 8, Joey Bauer, New Trier, 76. 9,
Andy Vaughan, Evasnton, 76. 10, Peter
Dubs, Niles W., 76.
CATHOLIC LEAGUE MEET
At Cog Hill No. 3, Lemont
Final team standings: 1, Loyola 304 (won
tiebreaker). 2, Brother Rice 304. 3, Fenwick
310. 4, Providence 315. 5, Mt. Carmel 317.
6, St. Ignatius 320. 7, St. Rita 322. 8, Bishop
McNamara 331. 9, St. Laurence 333. 10, De
La Salle 355.
Individuals
1, Tim Harrigan, Br. Rice, 68. 2, Jeff Marsee,
Mt. Carmel, 73. 3, Tim Lisy, Fenwick, 74. 4,
Patrick Murphy, Loyola, 74. 5, Bill McEnery,
Providence, 75. 6, Mike Pariso, Fenwick, 76.
7, Jordan Vidovic, Br. Rice, 76. 8, Sean Jules,
Loyola, 76. 9, Nick Lawler, Loyola, 76. 10,
Rob Cummings, St. Rita, 76.
DUPAGE VALLEY MEET
At Arrowhead G.C.
Final team standings:1,Naperville N. 314.
2, Naperville C. 318. 3, Wheaton S. 320. 4,
Glenbard N. 326. 5, Wheaton N. 330. 6, W.
Aurora 334. 7, W. Chicago 343. 8, Glenbard
E. 358.
Individuals
1, Chris Lewe, Naperville N., 74. 2, James
Bohr, Wheaton S., 76. 3, Alex Jarmusz, Na-
perville C., and Alex Hagmeyer, Naperville
N., 77. 5, Tom Hunt, Naperville C.; Nick Ze-
man, Glenbard N.; and Greg Hodge, W. Chi-
cago, 78. 8, Drew Smith, Naperville N., and
Mike Frey, Wheaton N., 79.10, Nick Cosanti-
no, Naperville C., 80.
EAST SUBURBAN CATHOLIC MEET
At Wedgewood G.C. (par 71)
Final team standings:1, St. Patrick 299. 2,
Marian Catholic 302. 3, Notre Dame 304. 4,
Joliet Catholic 308. 5, Marist 313. 6, Benet
317. 7, Nazareth 320. 8, Carmel 323. 9, St.
Viator 324. 10, St. Joseph 344. 11, Holy
Cross 355.
Individuals
1, Phillip Marzouillo, Notre Dame, 73. 2,
Collin Piercy, Joliet Catholic, 73. 3, Andrew
Ply, Carmel, 73. 4, Eric Skurka, Marian Ca-
tholic, 74. 5, Joe Cermak, St. Patrick, 74. 6,
Jay Fortuna, St. Patrick, 74. 7, Jim Finnigan,
Notre Dame, 74. 8, Matt Mazza, Marian Ca-
tholic, 75. 9, Brian Berecz, St. Patrick, 75.10,
Mike Phillips, Nazareth, 75.
SICA SOUTH MEET
At Urban Hills C.C., Richton Park (par 71,
6,266 yards)
Final team standings: 1, Bradley-Bour-
bonnais 323. 2, Kankakee 330. 3, Rich C.
THURSDAY’S NON-FOOTBALL RESULTS
359. 4, Crete-Monee 367. 5, Rich E. 372. 6, Rich
S. 391.
Individuals
1, Ron Rose, Kankakee, 70. 2, Brent Foockle, Bra-
dley, 78. 3, Zach Rorem, Bradley, 79. 4, Brad Net-
zel, Kankakee, 80. 5, Jeff Moss, Bradley, 82. 6,
Josh Simmons, Bradley, 84. 7, Kyle Coffman,
Bradley, 85. 8, Jeremy Delby, Rich E., 85. 9, Dan
Sutton, Rich S., 86. 10, tie, Kevin Mikos, Bradley
and Josh Wilson, Rich C., 87.
UPSTATE EIGHT MEET
At St. Andrews
Final team standings: 1, St. Charles N. 314
(won tiebreaker). 2, St. Charles E. 314. 3, Neu-
qua V. 320. 4, Waubonsie V. 321. 5, DeKalb 326.
6, Lake Park 327. 7, Larkin 333. 8, Elgin 335. 9,
Bartlett 339. 10, Streamwood 348.11, E. Aurora
426.
Individuals
1, Adam Schelkopf, DeKalb, 75 (won 1st hole
playoff). 2, Matt Triplett, St. Charles E., 75. 3,
Sean Courser and Ryan Johnson, St. Charles N.,
77. 5, Greg Shober, St. Charles E., 78. 6, Bradon
Garbrecht, Elgin, 78. 7, Carlos Sainz, Larkin, 78.
8, Zach Murphy, Waubonsie V., 78. 9, Andy
Mack, Lake Park, Brendan Kroll, St. Charles N.,
Shaun Stapleton, Neuqua V., Greg Roderique
and Kyle Olson, Waubonsie V., 79.
GIRLS GOLF
C. L. Central 200, Prairie Ridge 209. Medalist:
Susie Lewis, C.L. Central, 43.
CENTRAL SUBURBAN LEAGUE MEET
At Glenview Park District G.C., Glenview (Par
70, 5,734 yards)
Final team standings: 1, New Trier 331. 2,
Glenbrook N. 354. 3, Glenbrook S. 369. 4, High-
land Park 393. 5, Waukegan 396. 6, Deerfield
402. 7, Maine S. 424. 8, Evanston 472.
Individuals
1, Maggie Gelber, New Trier, 77. 2, Annika We-
lander, New Trier, 81. 3, Rikki Sobel, Deerfield,
82. 4, tie, Seira Nakashima, Glenbrook N., and
Kristen Clark, New Trier, 85. 6, Stefanie Klaetsch,
Waukegan, 87. 7, tie, Tina Park, Glenbrook N.,
and Stephanie Schwartz, New Trier, 88. 9, tie,
Christine Denison, Glenbrook N., and Alison
Mayer, Glenbrook S., and Alison Bruckner, Glen-
brook S., 89.
EAST SUBURBAN CATHOLIC MEET
At Countryside G.C., Mundelein
Final team standings:1, Carmel 363. 2, St. Via-
tor 367. 3, Benet 370. 4, Marian Catholic 384. 5,
Fenwick 388. 6, Providence 405. 7, Joliet C. 439.
8, Nazareth 463. 9, Marist 530.
Individuals
1, Jennifer Guido, Carmel, 78. 2, Katie Napleton,
Fenwick, 80. 3, Allison Kahler, Benet, 81. 4, Mi-
chelle Puch, St. Viator, 83. 5, Kate White, Carmel,
86. 6, Molly Duffy, Providence, 88. 7, Kim Puch,
St. Viator, 89. 8, Amanda Furlasse, Benet, 93. 9,
Nicole Gluzinski, Carmel, 93. 10, Meghan Smos-
na, Marian Catholic, 93.
GCAC INVITATIONAL
Final team standings:1,Loyola 376. 2, Mother
McAuley 388. 3, Regina 437. 4, St. Ignatius 440.
5, Mt. Assi 492. 6, St. Scholaistica 510. 7, Resur-
rection 532. 8, Maria 567.
Individuals
1, Ellie Costello, Loyola 89. 2, Katie Needham,
Mother McAuley, 92. 3, Maura Reilly, Mother
McAuley, 94. 4, Mary Kate Rahan, Mother McAu-
ley, 94. 5, Racheal Kopzyk, Loyola, 95. 6, Kate
Schulte, Loyola, 95. 7, Stacie Pawlicki, Regina,
96. 8, Allison Ryan, Loyola, 97. 9, Samantha
Trimbel, Regina, 102. 10, Anna Steffes, Loyola,
103. 11, Eilene O ‘Rouke, Mt. Assisi, 103.
SICA WEST MEET
At Silver Lake C.C., Orland Park (par 72)
Final team standings: 1, Sandburg 344. 2,
Stagg 358. 3, Lincoln-Way E. 390. 4, Lincoln-
Way C. 393. 5, Lockport 395. 6, Joliet 404. 7, An-
drew 415.
Individuals
1, Samantha Burke, Lincoln-Way E., 81. 2, Loren
Coghill, Sandburg, 85. 3, Bridget O’Connor,
Sandburg, 86. 4, Laurie Lacko, Stagg, 86. 5,
Katelyn O’Connor, Sandburg, 86. 6, Kim Jano-
zik, Sandburg, 87. 7, Jessica Sucich, Lincoln-
Way C., 89. 8, Emily Sobut, Stagg, 89. 9, Cate
Brann, Sandburg, 91. 10, Sara Porn, Stagg, 91.
GIRLS SWIMMING
Bartlett/Streamwood 102, Elgin/Larkin 78
Downers S. 135, Addison Trail/Willowbrook 47
Hinsdale S. 56, Leyden 38
Lincoln-Way E. 119, Maria 44
Lyons 96, Hinsdale C. 90
Oak Forest 52, T.F. South 42
St. Charles N. 110, Lake Park 76
GIRLS TENNIS
Addison Trail 5, Proviso E. 2
Bartlett 5, Elgin 2
Benet 4, Bishop McNamara 1
Buffalo Grove 4, Rolling Meadows 3
Crete-Monee 4, Rich C. 1
C.L. Central 5, Grayslake 2
East Aurora 7, Streamwood 0
Lake Forest 5, Libertyville 0
Lemont 4, Yorkville 3
Lincoln-Way E. 4, Joliet 1
Lockport 3, Sandburg 2
Marian C. 5, Montini 0
Naperville C. 6, Wheaton N. 1
Oak Forest 5, T.F. North 0
Oak Lawn 4, Bolingbrook 1
St. Charles 5, DeKalb 2
St. Viator 3, Marian Catholic 2
Timothy Christian 4, Walther Lutheran 1
Vernon Hills 5, Round Lake 0
Willowbrook 4, Morton 3
OPENINGS
Í Niles North’s girls basketball team will be
host to a 12-team Christmas tournament this
season—dates are Dec. 23, 26, 27 and 28—and
needs two more teams to fill out the field. Also,
the Vikings will begin a six-team Thanksgiving
tournament next season for both varsity and
sophomore levels. Three more schools are
needed. Call Joel Kessler at 847-626-2290 or
Carol Herlocker at 847-626-2284 if interested.
Í St. Francis de Sales is looking to hire an as-
sistant boys basketball coach. Candidates must
have a teaching certificate or be AESP certified.
Send letter of interest to Athletic Director Jim
Long at the school, 10155 S. Ewing, Chicago
60617 or send via fax at 773-731-7998.
To report scores call 312-222-3473 or fax 312-
828-9392 immediately after your game.
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10 CHICAGO TRIBUNE SECTION 4 FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 2002SPORTS
wooden tables or cutting witty
interviews, Nowinski is start-
ing to fit right in.
He was drawn to pro wres-
tling’s athleticism, dramatic
story lines and flamboyant
characters while watching
WWE at Harvard with his foot-
ball teammates. After gradua-
tion, Nowinski enrolled in Kill-
er Kowalski’s wrestling school
in Boston to pursue his new-
found dream.
After a few months of train-
ing, Nowinski was selected to
participate in “Tough Enough,”
a reality television series pro-
duced jointly by WWE and MTV.
Thirteen candidates trained
with WWE stars to learn the ba-
sics of professional wrestling
with the top two earning WWE
developmental contracts.
Nowinski was a finalist but
didn’t get a contract. However,
the WWE invited him back to a
show before last March’s Wres-
tleMania in Toronto. He im-
pressed WWE brass enough on
that show to finally earn a con-
tract.
Nowinski trained for two
more months in the Heartland
Wrestling Association, then a
WWE developmental franchise
in Cincinnati, before being pro-
moted to the active roster.
In June Nowinski debuted on
“Raw”, WWE’s Monday night
show on TNN. As a “fan” in the
front row, Nowinski jumped the
security barricade and tossed
brass knuckles to wrestler Wil-
liam Regal. The wrestler subse-
quently bashed his opponent
with the weapon and cheated
his way to victory. After the
match Regal walked with No-
winski back to the dressing
room.
“I wondered how our admis-
sions office was going to react to
this,” Harvard football coach
Tim Murphy said jokingly.
Nowinski has been featured
on the cards of recent “Raw”
shows. His career, however, has
taken a brief pause because of
facial surgery in late September
to remove a benign tumor from
the parotid gland near the caro-
tid artery on the left side of his
face. He will miss 4-to-6 weeks of
ring time to recuperate, though
he still may be featured in back-
stage segments.
WWE has even written his ab-
sence into his latest story line.
In a vignette taped in a class-
room, Tommy Dreamer, a wres-
tler who embraces the hard-
core style of incorporating
weapons into matches, smacked
Nowinski across his face with a
cane.
Another recent story line had
Nowinski courting—a polite
way of phrasing things—former
WWE women’s champion Molly
Holly. His attempts were unsuc-
cessful.
“I know it’s all acting,” said
Nowinski’s mother, Brenda,
who works as a career mentor at
Prospect High School. “I’m your
basic prude. I wasn’t totally
pleased with it, but I know it’s
not really Chris.”
His new lifestyle must seem
like light-years away from his
years at Hersey, where he
ranked ninth in a class of 405 se-
niors at the Arlington Heights
school.
“He was a nerd in high
school,” said Nowinski’s older
sister, Susan. “I never thought
in a million years that he would
do something in show busi-
ness.”
Jim Ross, senior vice presi-
dent and head of talent relations
for WWE, said Nowinski’s aca-
demic work ethic serves him
well in the wrestling business.
“He’s like Stone Cold [Steve
Austin] when he was here—the
first guy in the building and the
last to leave,” Ross said. “Chris
is exactly the same way. He’s a
great listener. He absorbs the in-
formation like a sponge. He’s al-
ways in front of the monitors at
our TV shows. He’s become a
[great] student of the game.”
Nowinski was the captain of
the varsity football and basket-
ball teams his senior year at
Hersey. He led the basketball
team to a 26-5 record and a state
quarterfinal appearance during
his junior year.
Nowinski dabbled in the per-
forming arts at Hersey when he
played the role of Diesel in a pro-
duction of the musical “West
Side Story.”
“By doing ‘West Side Story,’ I
found out that I liked perform-
ing,” Nowinski said. “It made
me feel comfortable. I was never
scared of performing in front of
a crowd.”
Nowinski also had the athlet-
ic roots to make the transition to
the wrestling profession.
At Harvard, Nowinski was a
285-pound run-stopping defen-
sive lineman and helped lead
the Crimson to the sixth-best
rushing defense in Division I-
AA in 1999. But Nowinski’s
dreams of playing in the NFL
were ended by shoulder surgery
after his senior season. Nowin-
ski said almost 20 NFL teams
worked him out, but none want-
ed on a player with an injury
risk.
“He was a fine football play-
er,” Murphy said. “He wasn’t a
journeyman athlete trying to be
a wrestler.”
WWE performers aren’t just
ordinary former athletes. Sev-
eral current wrestlers have a
wide range of achievement in
sports. Kurt Angle won a gold
medal in heavyweight wres-
tling at the1996 Olympic Games.
Brock Lesnar, the current WWE
champion, won the 2000 NCAA
heavyweight wrestling cham-
pionship while at the Universi-
ty of Minnesota. Dwayne John-
son, better known as “the
Rock,” was a defensive lineman
under coach Dennis Erickson at
the Miami (Fla.) in 1990-94.
“I always believe when you
have an opportunity to recruit
and sign real athletes, you’ll be
better off,” Ross said. “They’re
more focused. They’re physical-
ly tougher. They play with
pain.”
Despite the rigors of the wres-
tling business, Nowinski enjoys
performing in front of thou-
sands of fans and has no visions
of returning to an office cubicle.
“It’s been nothing but a posi-
tive experience,” he said. “I’m
always happy [working] here
and being on the road. It’s defi-
nitely a great time.”
NOWINSKI:
Hersey grad
goes to mat
by degrees
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school needed approval from
the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration to put up the 70-foot light
standards and had to make sure
they wouldn’t interfere with the
operations of the system. The
lights came within a foot of FAA
restrictions.
But restrictions, bus rides to
Libertyville and discussion
over the selling of naming rights
are things of the past. The lights
have been tested. There’s no re-
freshment stand at the moment,
so tents will be set up to sell,
among other things, pizza, na-
chos, buffalo wings and coffee.
Now it’s time to play football,
and the official dedication will
take place between the sopho-
more and varsity games Friday.
“We’vegotsomethingtoprove
this week,” said Vernon Hills
coach Tony Monken, who said
turnovers and North Chicago’s
Turner twins—Kevin and
Keith—did in the Cougars last
season.
Two years ago, Vernon Hills
fielded a varsity roster of 29 ju-
niors and six sophomores and
came within a two-point conver-
sion of taking North Chicago in-
to overtime.
This year? Monken’s team’s
only loss came against unbea-
ten Warren. Vernon Hills’ de-
fense has six three-year start-
ers—Kevin Rhedin, Matt Lef-
fler, Ryan Ellis, Keith Heerde-
gen, Frank DeFrancesco and
Mark Abboreno.
Heerdegen, who competed
Downstate in the100 and 200 me-
ters last spring, has rushed for
300 yards and four touchdowns
on only 32 carries.
Leffler is the workhorse with
417 yards and three TDs in 95
carries.
Mike Grenda, assistant head
coach at North Chicago (3-2, 0-1),
understands the excitement
building at Vernon Hills. But, he
said, “We’ll be fired up as well.”
North Chicago got off to a 3-0
start that included a 26-21 victo-
ry over Libertyville. But the de-
fending North Suburban Prai-
rie champs, led by Zion-Benton
transfer Torris Childs’ 550 rush-
ing yards and Josh Franklin’s
outstanding defense, have drop-
ped their last two games and are
in danger of losing control of
this season.
“This is not a time for us to
collapse,” Grenda said.
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Manley came into its Public
Illini Heartland matchup
against Julian riding a three-
game winning streak and ave-
raging 37 points per game. But
Julian’s defense stood tall and
its offense proved potent as the
Jaguars blanked Manley 22-0
Thursday at Gately Stadium.
Julian’s 1-2 punch of running
back Julius Strong, who gained
141 yards on 13 carries, and
Pierre Jones (20 carries, 119
yards, TD) kept Manley (3-3, 2-1)
off the field for much of the
game. The Jaguars’ defense
forced two turnovers while
holding Manley to 181 yards.
“We just played fundamental
defense and the kids put pres-
sure on their offense through-
out the entire game,” said Ju-
lian coach Pete Thanos, whose
team took over first place. “I just
want to see us run the ball and
just keep running it at our oppo-
nents until we get better at it.”
Julian (4-2, 2-1) ran the ball
eight straight times in its first
drive of the second quarter be-
fore taking an 8-0 lead on a 28-
yard pass from Demarien
Hampton to Strong with 6 min-
utes 32 seconds left in the half.
After Strong thwarted a Manley
drive with an interception at the
Jaguars’ 2-yard line, he gave Ju-
lian a two-touchdown lead with
a 92-yard sweep. Jones’ conver-
sion run made it 16-0 with 2:33
before halftime.
Henry Del Valle
Hyde Park 32, Schurz 3: Lorenzo
Horton scored two rushing
touchdowns for Hyde Park (4-2,
3-0) in the Public Chicago Big
Shoulders.
Boys soccer
Neuqua Valley 8, Streamwood 2:
Andrew Monteith, Brent Ma-
dawick and Chris Kammo
scored two goals each for No. 1
Neuqua (12-1-1, 7-0) in the Up-
state Eight.
Morton 2, York 2: Miguel Tovar
and Cupertino Enriquez scored
for No. 4 Morton (11-1-2), which
rallied from a 2-0 halftime defi-
cit. Jason Herrick and Kevin
Woerner scored for York (9-1-2).
Maine South 3, Niles West 0: Joe
Salvadore, Zach Bachmeier and
Mark Anderson scored for the
No. 7 Hawks (9-2-4, 3-0-1) in the
Central Suburban South.
Lake Forest 1, Stevenson 1 (OT):
Sean Marshall scored for No. 10
Lake Forest (10-1-3, 0-0-2) in the
North Suburban Lake. David
Skillman scored for Stevenson.
Girls volleyball
Naperville North made sure it
closed the gaps this time.
Improved defensive play was
the key as the No. 5 Huskies
handed No. 4 Wheaton Warren-
ville South a 15-7, 15-8 defeat for
its first DuPage Valley loss.
“We played lot better defense
than we did the first time we
played them,” said Naperville
North coach Ric Krebs, whose
team lost to the Tigers in three
games in their last match.
Katie Bruzdzinski paced the
Huskies (18-1, 7-1) with 12 kills.
Michelle Gagnon had seven
kills for the Tigers (16-2, 7-1).
Jack McCarthy
Marian Catholic d. Providence 6-
15, 15-12, 15-6: No. 8 Marian Ca-
tholic continued its helter-skel-
ter play against the area’s top
teams with a comeback win at
home over No. 7 Providence in
the East Suburban Catholic.
The Spartans lost Game 1 and
numerous unforced errors put
them down 12-5 in the second
when they scored 10 straight
points for the victory. Marian
(15-5, 4-1), which beat the Celtics
last Friday, took a 10-2 lead in
Game 3 and held on. Liz Kane
had two aces, including match
point, with 16 kills and 23 digs.
Jacque Huguelet led Provi-
dence (16-5, 3-1) with 15 kills.
Mike Duffin
Sandburg d. Andrew 15-8, 15-7:
Colleen Byrne had 14 kills for
the top-ranked Eagles (17-0, 6-0)
in the SICA West.
Louisville Assumption d. Mother
McAuley 15-8, 15-12: Julie Pur-
cell had 12 kills to lead Assump-
tion (17-3), which has won Ken-
tucky’s state title the last seven
years. Maura McCarthy had 10
kills and Sarah Cullina had 25
assists for No. 5 Mother McAu-
ley (11-5).
Queen of Peace d. Maria 15-12,
15-1: Paige Pedigo had six blocks
for the No. 9 Pride (12-3, 4-0) in
the GCAC Red.
Barrington d. Fremd 15-3, 15-2:
Laura Holloway’s six kills led
the No. 10 Fillies (17-2-1, 7-0) in
the Mid-Suburban West.
Ross Forman, Tim Hilton, Ja-
son Madel and Andy Rabinowitz
contributed to this report.
ROUNDUP
Julian makes strong case for lead in shutting out Manley
Miami (Fla.) from 1990-94.