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Port Eagles settle for consolation The Port Perry Eagles had to settle for the lati In Eagles second game of the t, they got some fine crown in the annual Midget tournament played Saturday at the Scugog Arena. Mike Tripp was in the cage for the shut-out as the Eagles blanked Huntsville 4-0 in the consolation final. Steve Desautels fired a hat trick to pace the Eagles in this one with the other marker coming in the first period by Ryan Ridgway. Brad MacArthur helped set up three of the Eagle goals. In the championship game, Port Elgin Kinsmen showed why they are among the top Midget clubs anywhere this year as they defeated Cobourg 5-3; Port Elgin has suffered only one loss to date this season. goaltending from Rick Hutchinson who. recorded the shut-out in a 2-0 victory. Jeff Card was set up for the first goal on an assist from Scott Heasman, and MacArthur from Sean Ellis and Duane Empringham provided the insurance marker late in the third period. Eagles found themselves on the consolation side in this tournament by virtue of a tough 4-3 overtime loss to Parry Sound in the opener Saturday mortfing. Goals by Ellis, Sean McEnaney and MacArthur gave Eagles a 3-2 lead in the third period, Parry Sound's Kirt Nelson tié® things at 7:29 to send the game into OT. = |W And with just nine seconds left in the overtime period, the Sound's Jay Moyle found the met to give his team the victory. This was a very well played game with just one minor penalty to the Eagles and none to the boys from Bobby Orr's home town. Even though they had to settle for the consolation, the Eagles had a decent tournament, scoring nine goals in three games while giving up just four and recording two shut-outs, That's the way the team has been playing so far this season: good defense and goaltending, but a bit of trouble putting the puck behind the guy in.the + other goal. NL Port Perry captain Duane Empringham with Huntsvil captain Ryan MacDonald after the consolation game in t Members ofthe Port Parry Widget Eagles after winning 16 consolation banner a ther home . Front from left: Jeremy Norton, Todd Smart, Sean Ellis, Mike Tripp, tournament Rick Hutchinson, Brad MacArthur, Sean McEnaney. in the back from left: coach Dave Bourgeois, Duane Empringham, Jason Phillips, Steve Desautels, Jett Card, Scott Heasman, Chad Kearns, Ryan Ridgway, and head coach Doug Scott. Not present for photo Manager Wendy Bourgeois. Midget tournament on Saturday. Port Perry won it 4-0. The Peewee Legion At team met up with Uxbridge on Friday evening in the Port arena, and came away with an easy 8-2 victory. - 'The big story of the night was two of our boys picking up hat tricks. Scott Jeffrey and Rob urphy picked up 8 goals a iece to lead the victory and Rob added 1 assist. Qur ogher 2 goals went to Mike Morden and Danny Robinson who both counted in the third period, Mike also added in a lone assist on Danny's goal. Alot of help came from the rest of the boys in the assist department as these goals were set up by hard work from Danny Lyons (2), Shane Norton (2), Colin Laird (1), Sot 1 Hoffer (2), Seth brid duties cam net for the hasdlea Ov, . game and mage Sofa a stops, one in particul his leg was fortunately long enough for his toe to catch it. Although this a to be "an easy game, ithwas great stops in goal that helped keep Uxbridge off the scoreboard. It was a good start for the Cobourg tournament the next morning: On Saturday, the Peewee Legion team-headed out early for Cobourg for our second tournament of the year, We had a great start with a team from Hagersville who we managed to handle easily 7-2. Kent Johnston handled the goal tending duties for this game as if he wasn't awake at first, he certainly was within 20 seconds as a big forward from Hagersville broke loose one in the third and added out 1 assist. Mike Morden put two on the board, the first in the middle of the second of another isted on a break early in the third. Several boys set up the goals th Port poi counted first on an unassisted goal by Danny Robinson Si Satie around the net. looked pretty good until the 3:20 mark 'of the third when Cobourg tied it. Five mi later, Shane the game with hard rushes and a lot of digging out of the corners and from behind the net, Shane Norton picked up.3- assists, Daryl McEnaney (2); Heasman _ Colin Laird (1), Mike (1), Scott Jeffrey (1), Scott « Heffern (2), Seth Gray (2). The balance of the goals were notched by Scott Heffern, Rob Murphy and Adam Jones with one each, Our next game was one hour later against our nemesis, Cobourg, who always seem to "beat us when it really counts. We dropped a 3-2 count and \ although we hate-to poirit the - finger, it was agréed that home refereeing could have played a big hand in this one. Norton set up Rob Murphy. to put-us ahead again. Then twenty seconds into the third, Cobourg tied it, and added another only 2 minutes later. rts were made to tie it up but penalties seemed to put us in a bad spot. Our next game wasn't until [ p.m. and therefore a meeting was held in the board of directors room at the nearby Best. Western Hotel. The meeting was called to order at 2 p.m. and a motion for adjournment by Grant Laird was given at 2:10. We then enjoyed lively conservation for the next 5 hours and peanuts, chips. |, and tortillas accompanied light After a minor bus accident cleared away, cautiously made our way to the arena to meet Belleville, who Vatlted this game more than only 1:31 into the game Adam Jones picked up our first on a loose puck in front and assists went to Daryl McEnaney and Scott Heffern. Belleville kept lasting away and counted 4 times before. Daryl and Scott again set up Scott Jeffrey for our only other goal, late in the third. Kent Johnston handled the go ean and couldn't be faulted for this one as his stops kept Belleville from adding more.' A lot of good credit goes to both goal tenders; Luke and Kent for their part in the 4 games over the Good Jobo big / H