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20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1983 3 Gamblers series a real cliff-hanger Y BF L, ~ A" lL, ~~ Port Perry Kinsmen were runners up for the 'A' championship in the District |, lob- ball tournament at Bowmanville on September 10th. Team members included, front row, left to right: Ray and Billy +» Zaparanuik, Sharri Masterson, Brian Samis, Timmy Masterson; back row, Jon Patter- B UREAM GENERICS son, Brian Callery, Steve Chabot, Ron Zaparanuik and Don Masterson. Bowman- ville won the 'A' title and Brooklin defeated Oshawa Motor City for the 'B' crown. Don Masterson was the MVP for Port Perry. -- Photo courtesy Bowmanville Canadian Statesman Molacks prepare for Jr. C. season opener The Port Perry Mo- Jacks are about to begin a new season in the Central Optario Junior C hockey league. Under the direction of head coach Gary Elliott, who is back behind the bench for another sea- son, the team has been holding on-ice work-outs at the Scugog Arena for the past week or so, ana more than 50 players turned up at the training camp. Last Sunday evening, the team held its "green-gold"' inter squad game, and it was a vigorous affair with some heavy hitting not usually seen in these kinds of games. It appears as if there are a lot of players hungry to play Junior C hockey in a MoJack uniform this year. And speaking of uniforms, the team will be sporting a new look on home ice this season with mainly white sweaters trimmed with the MoJack green and slow-pitch so miss it! Benefit game It'll be Scugog versus Uxbridge in a heated ftball game guaranteed to set your teeth on edge. But neither team will die. -. The winner will be the Big Brothers Association of North Durham, the group spon- soring the game between the Scugog and Ux- bridge Chamber of Commerce in order to raise money. Big Brothers Week is coming up soon. The game will be held tomorrow evening (Wednesday) in Uxbridge at the main diamond at Uxpool on Franklin Street. The excitement starts about 7 p.m. Don't DA MUNYA gold colours. Coach Elliott and team officials are hoping for an improve- ment over last year's very respectable third place finish in the ten team loop. The team fashioned 19 wins, six ties, and 11 defeats, good for 44 points in 36 games. They defeated Rice Lake three straight in the quarter final playoff, then put up a gallant fight against the league champion Lindsay Muskies before bowing out. That same Lindsay team advanced all the way to the all-Ontario Junior C championship. MoJacks have a strong nucleus of play- ers from last year's squad to build around this season. Although the team had not signed any players as of the beginning of this week, there are at least eight players from last year who are virtually certain to make the team this season, The goal-tending tandem of Ken Harman CCCI IE CIE EI IE OE BI RRNA RARER ET mer, DAM ARAL AS SPAT AAPA AFAR EFAPL FL PL PALL PLL PLL JS PL IA A JA PL JR J AL OL 0 TY and Clay Lovering will be back, giving the team a pair of proven net- minders. They both saw a lot of rubber in some games last winter, turn- ing in some first rate performances along the way, and the experience should prove invaluable this year. Up front on the for- ward lines, Todd Wilbur, Bob Horton, Scott Wallace, Brian Mikkelsen, Glen Mc- Kay and John Fusco are regulars from last year's squad, and John Vaz and Jeff Johnstone saw 'spot duty last season. Jamie Bird, the second leading point scorer with the team last season is eligible to play but has not been out with the club to date, and his future as a MoJack is uncertain at this time. 'Wilbur, Horton and - Wallace have all proven they can score a lot of points in Junior C hockey. Mikkelsen is a (Turn to page 21) CE I SY Everyone said the Fastball final series between the Greenbank Gamblers and the Claremont Legion would be a close match up and they were "Dead on"! After the first two games the teams are tied at one game apiece and both games were real "cliff hangers." Surprisingly the teams have managed to pick up their wins in the other teams home park. Last Monday night the two teams met in Green- bank Park and Ken Irvine and Darryl Norton hooked up in a tight battle which was won by Claremont by a 2-1 score. Greenbank opened the scoring when first base- man Trevor Till belted a triple to left field and then scored when the throw to home plate got away from the catcher. This lead held until the fourth inning when Norm McKenzie singled into centre field, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Bill Carruthers two out single to left centre field. The score remained tied until the top of the sixth inning when again with two men out, pitch- er Darryl Norton caught hold of a Ken Irvine fastball and lined it deep over the left field fence for a 2-1 Claremont victory. The following night in Claremont the two teams locked horns again with Ken Goreski on the Gambler mound opposing Todd Pascoe of Claremont. This time the Greenbank bats came alive early and they scored three runs in the first inning. Neil Rodd led off with a base on balls and when Claremont tried to retire him at second base on Bill Thomsons sacrifice, Rodd beat the throw to second and both runners were safe. Trevor Till then cashed both runs with a line drive single to right field. Don Beaton sac- rificed Till to second where he scored on Dennis Romerils base hit. Claremont got one run back in the bottom of the - first inning when lead off batter Doug Rowe slapped a home run to right centre field. How- ever, Ken Goreski settl- ed down and retired the next three batters in a row, helped consider- ably when Gambler catcher Don Phinney picked Norm McKenzie off first base and he was tagged out in run- down play. The Greenbank team came right back in the second inning to score two more runs when Ken Goreski doubled down the right field line and scored on Neil Rodd's lone single. Bill Thomson then drove in Neil Rodd with a line drive to left centre and the Gamblers had a 5-1 lead. However, the Clare- mont team battled back in the third inning to score two runs with just a single hit. Goreski struck out Marty Vzzell to start the bottom of the third inning but was safe when the third strike tipped off the catchers glove. Vzzell was sacrificed to second and scored on Norm McKenzie's hit to right field, with McKenzie going to second on the throw to the plate. McKenzie stole third base and scored on an infield out to make the score 5-3. In the bottom of the fifth inning Doug Rowe led off with a single and when McKenzie rapped his third hit of the game Claremont had runners on first and third with nobody out. At this point Green- bank brought in Ken Irvine to face the ever dangerous Larry Pilkey. Irvine put on an outstanding display of relief pitching as he struck out Pilkey, got Todd Pascoe to pop up and then struck out Bill Carruthers to end the inning. Claremont went down in order in the sixth and seventh innings with Irvine fanning Vzzell, Rowe and McKenzie in the bottom of the seventh to end the game. Bill Thomson and Dennis Romeril led the Gambler attack with three hits each with Neil .Rodd, Trevor Till, Don beaton, John Foster and Ken Goreski collecting one hit each. The series resumes this Monday night in Greenbank, Tuesday night in Claremont and ~~ if a fifth game is necessary it will be played in Greenbank Park on Thursday, Sept. 22nd at 8:30 P.M. Young players to get info on drugs This fall when Port Perry's 300 or so boys start playing PeeWee: hockey they will receive a timely drug prevention kit. Minor hockey presi- dent Grant Williams picked up a box of kits last Tuesday night and will be distributing them to the youths as they register. If a child is already registered, the kit will be handed out as the season begins. - The kits, produced by Alcohol and Drug Con- ceins Inc., are being sup- plied free to the OMHA, the OWHA, the SHA and LI A I I EE SS A A NOHA for distribution. There are four items in a small plastic bag labelled "Get High on Hockey." The pamphlets are designed to attract kids and encourage them to choose a healthy lifestyle. A colourful comic book depicts two cartoon characters who are confronted with the chance to try drugs, as well as a drug fact quiz (a toughie!) to be com- pleted by players and their parents. In another pamphlet, Jim McKen- ny, an ex-Maple Leaf, tells his horror story with alchohol. A fourth lifestyle booklet com- pletes the kit. The 11 and 12 year old age group was selected because most of them are not using drugs yet. Early prevention efforts can help influence their decision before they get to the age of experimen- tation, usually around 14 or 15. pi Alcohol and Drug Con- cerns In., didn't single out hockey because it houses more drug pro- blems than any other sport, but because hockey reaches so many children that it seemed the ideal route to send the kits.