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DaiLvHeiald Friday, September 18,1998 Still on top When they don't lose, the top teams keep their place in the Daily (Herald's Top Ten football poll. St. Charles, Larkin, Kaneland and Cary-Grove are still the top four teams while Hampshire cracked the poll this week for the first time. Rage 2 Week 3 heroes The Fox Valley's top individual performances for Week 3 of the football season: RUSHING Name No. Yds.

Kaplan (C-G) 16 155 Williams (D-C) 20 112 Sheldon (BC) 9 89 Hitch (Bart) 14 83 Hayes (Lar) 9 83 PASSING Name. A J. Brown (Hunt) 22 34 326 S. Brown (Str) 14 30 305 Noblli6(MC) 11 16 300 Schabert(Lar) 12 17 250 Meyer (Hamp) 4 8 163 RECEIVING Name No. Yds.

Dean (MC) 6 217 Waoht(Hunt) 8 192 Weiseman (CLS) 7 122 Jackson (Str) 4 100 Dvorin (Hamp) 2 85 Elgin's Jamil Hinton (25). Daily Herald Welsh The Inside scoop Page 2 It's Larkin's homecoming tonight when the Royals host Neuqua Valley at 7:30 p.m. (WRMN-AM 1410, 7 p.m. pre- game). Elgin, meanwhile travels to Waubonsie Valley and Marian Central plays a huge Suburban Catholic game at Marmion on Saturday.

For all the weekend football previews, just turn the page. Page 3 The Herald Players of the Week are announced; as well as our weekly volleyball Top Ten Page 4 Streamwood's Erin Rind not only has Division I volleyball talent, she's a musician and an artist as well. Page 5 Bob Frisk takes a look at being in 'The Page 6 Golf is often called a lonely game and Hampshire's Tony Perez backs that up as the school's only competitive golfer. Plus, Mike Miazga takes a look at the history of Saturday's Dundee- Crown'Charger Golf Invitational. ffi Don't miss Section 2 for our expanded overnight coverage of Thursday's events Central vs.

Hampshire not at all like it used to be When Burlington Central and Hampshire take the field tonight at Central for the 31st football meeting between the two neighboring schools, not a whole lot of the kids in pads will be thinking about rivalries. Not many of the young men who attend those two schools have any idea what it used to mean to Central to beat Hampshire or vice versa. I sure do. And today I want to take a little trip back in time to recall one of the greatest small school football rivalries anyone could ever ask to be involved in. What prompted the thoughts ot the old Hampshire-Central games was simple: They don't happen very often anymore.

Since the Big Eight Conference became the Big Northern in 1994, Central and Hampshire have only met on the football field once, that in 1996. In my day not playing Hampshire John Radtke Fox Valley Sports in any sport would have been unheard of. The two district's boundries meet each other virtually everywhere and in the late 60's and into the late 70's and through the middle 80's if you went to Central you hated Hampshire. If you were from Hampshire, you hated Central. Sure, there were some mend- ships.

Some of the kids even dated and eventually married across those battle lines. But when it came to putting on an athletic uniform, if you wore blue and white, your mission was to destroy the purple and white. If you wore purple and white, you wanted to add some black to that blue and white. Having graduated from Central in 1975, with older brothers who football for Central in the mid 60's, I learned very early in my life how to hate Hampshire. Hogtown we called it, and they could never come back with anything clever.

I must take a moment to recall my two favorite Hampshire-Central football stories. One happened off the field, the other on and both in my.senior year, the fall of 1974. Mysteriously in 1973, a group of kids had lit the Hampshire bonfire on Thursday night of homecoming week. They said it was us, we said it was kids from Kirkland. Hampshire kids vowed that tall ot 1974 to make sure we didn't have a bonfire since we ruined theirs the year before (I'll never tell if we really did).

Anyway, we came up with a surefire (excuse the pun) way to make certain our fire wasn't See RADTKE on Page 3 Tonya Fletcher, who scored the goal tor the Trojans' girts soccer year-s'supersectlonal, is now using her tofeng talents on Senior year becoming best year for Halsema BY RICH CARLSON Daily Herald Correspondent Dundee-Crown senior Jeff Halsema is flourishing this season, his fOUrth Straight under a new COaCh. Dally Herald PboWGeorga LeClalre Jeff Halsema loves to play soccer. It's all he does. Perhaps that is why, with all things considered, the Dundee- Crown senior is still playing. See, the Chargers haven't had the most successful, nor most stable program in the four years Halsema has been playing varsity soccer.

This year Halsema welcomed into the program it's fourth varsity head coach in as many years. "It's been pretty tough trying to change your style and the way you play the game for four different people. It's a unique thing to go through," admitted Halsema. "Each one wants you to do certain things and you try your best to do what they want." Halsema persevered and did nis part to keep the Chargers afloat. In each of the past two seasons he has been named to both the All-Fox Valley Conference and Daily Herald All-Area teams.

Now, it seems Halsema, and his dedication to the sport, are being rewarded. He and the Chargers are off to their best start since he's been there. "It's really exciting. We're actually coming together as a unit and as one," said Halsema, a second- year team captain. "We've got some new coaches this season and BURLINGTON CENTRAL VS.

HAMPSHIRE ALL-TIME SERIES SCORES (Central leads series 17-13) 1968 1972.1973- 19741975- 19761977- 1978.1979- Central 48, Hampshire 0 1982 Hampshire 12, Central- 0, 1983 Central 25, Hampshire 8 1984 Hampshire 50, Central 13 1985 Hampshire 22, Central 6 1986 Hampshire 34, Central 20 1987 Hampshire 12, Central 6 1988 Central Hampshire 6 1989 Hampshire 65, Central 7 1990 Hampshire 24, Central 12 1991 Central 14, Hampshire 13 1992 -Hampshire 13, Central 6 1993- Central 7, Hampshire 6 1994 Hampshire 14, Central 0 1995 Hampshire 44, Central 0 1996 Central 12, Hampshire 7 1997 Central6, Hampshire 2 1998 -Central21, 18 Central 20, Hampshire 13 Hampshire 17, Central 8 -Central 15, -Central 19, Hampshire8 -Hampshire 19, Central 9 Central 22, Central 30, Hampshire 0 Central 42, Hampshire 2 Central 42, Hampshire 21 Central 24, Hampshire 15 -Hampshire 19, Central 6 Did not play Did not play Central 41, Hampshire 6 Did not play Fletcher, Brooks have the answers Outstanding soccer players, they've taken kicking talents to football field BY PATRICIA BABCOCK Daily Herald Sports Writer Questions, questions, questions. You'd better believe Tina Brooks and Tonya Fletcher had plenty of questions for each other when they met for the first time Monday evening. Here's just a sampling: Fletcher: "What's your locker room situation like?" Brooks: "How about equipment? Do you wear everything they do?" Fletcher: "Weren't preseason workouts the toughest?" Brooks: "So how did you get started anyway?" The answers? Brooks and Fletcher always get their own dressing room, wear everything but the cup, were more challenged by preseason workouts than they could have possibly imagined and were encouraged to try out for the football team by various faculty mentors who would marvel at they way they could pound soccer balls with uncanny accuracy. That's right. Brooks and Fletcher, two tiny, petite teen-aged girls who used to be best known for their powerful soccer kicks, are playing high school football this fell.

Brooks is the first-string place- kicker at Wauconda, while Fletcher is in the same position at Gary- Grove. And although they're not the first girls to ever play high school football in Illinois, they are among the very few who have ever tried and succeeded. So far this year, Brooks has made all three of her extra points. And she connected on her only field goal attempt of the season, burying a 20-yarder against Marengo. Meanwhile, Fletcher moved up to the first string after Cary-Grove's regular kicker Seth DePuy got hurt.

Since then, she has made good on 6 of 9 extra points but'has yet to attempt a field goal. "In a way it's kind of neat this (unique) situation," said the 17- year-old Brooks, a senior who'was the defensive player of the year for the Wauconda girls soccer team last season. "I thought doing this would probably help me with soccer. Plus, I just wanted to try something different. "But I really don't want to be singled out because I'm a girl.

I'm not trying to create attention. This is all about the team and what I can do to help us win. I'm just happy I got the chance to do this." "I'm not trying to make any statements either for feminists or anything like that," added Fletcher, also a 17-year-old senior. At last year's soccer supersectional, she scored the winning goal that pushed the Cary-Grove girls into the Elite Eight "I like football. And I'm just out to play." Just like the rest of the guys.

But, of course, Brooks and Fletcher aren't guys. They're the See KICKERS on Page 4 they really know what they're doing and they've really changed this program around: We're looking for big things this year." This year, Halsema and his Chargers teammates are playing for Julian Sanchez and they appear to be driven toward proving the transition from Ben Raymond, Basilio Salazar and Jay Landgraf over the past three years, 'to Sanchez this year, will be a smooth one After all, D-C was off'to a (1-0 FVC) start Heading into Thursday's match against district and conference rival Jacobs. But Sanchez admits a lot of that smoothness in the transition can be- credited to Halsema. "It was a lot easier having a player like Jeff on the team. He gets along with everybody," said Sanchez.

"It's a lot easier than haying to deal with different players in regards to their attitude to the team and their relationships with' other players. He gets, along all the players and.that's great for a brand new coach." "I've been here a couple months and he showed leadership right away," added Sanchez. "I could'see right away guys listened to him-and' really looked up to Jeff." one of the first things Sanchez did with his proven star was move him.to a new position in order 1 to A shining star Streamwood's Erin Rind has not only become an outstanding volleyball player but a well-rounded student athlete with many Interests. Read more about Rind on Dally Herald Fabiszak.