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~ 20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1985 SPO £ rts ili by John B. McClelland A nine game undefeat- ed string came to an abrupt end over the weekend for the Port Perry MoJacks with a pair of losses to Port , Hope and Bowmanville. The team has 23 points in the standings, good enough for a share of fourth spot, and with four games left to play in the regular schedule, the MoJack$ will have their work cut out for them. Three players are fac- ing two game suspen- sions after a wild bench clearing brawl in the Despite pressure around the Port Hope net on several occasions, the MoJacks were not able to keep their 9-game streak alive Saturday night as they bowed 'from the Bench clearing brawl! ors Mal. «Eagle game ine g third period of the game Sunday night in Bow- manville, which the Eagles won 9-3. Defensemen Jeff Mc- Coll and Mike Ryan, along forward Brad Fiakhan will be out for 'a couple of games and captain Scott 'Wallace will miss one _ game for his part in a" fight in the second period. SES The game was a chippy affair almost opening whistle and as Bowman- ville took advantageofa , string of MoJack penal: ies to put the contest out ra ~------ of iy tempers flared with just over 12 minutes to play in the game. Several fights broke out on the ice, but the main brawl seemed to get going after Eagle goalie George Kennett left his crease and skated to centre where he bush-wacked a Jack from behind. There were conflict ing reports as to which team left the bench first but the referee cited two MoJacks, then the Bow- manville squad, follow- - ed by the rest of the Port Perry players. 9-7 to the Panthers. Things got worse the next evening Perfect day at tournament The ice surface was covered with sticks gloves and helmets as players squared off in punching and wrestling matches that went on for nearly ten minutes. The officials finally restored a semblance of order on the ice and sent both teams to the dress- ing rooms while they tried to sort out the penalties. After 20 minutes delay, the game resum- ed without serious incid- ent and the final score was 9-3. For the Eagles, Gord Rogers Kennett, and Scott Heard will be watching from the side- lines for their part in the brawl. Several other players on both sides were tossed out of the actually openiéd a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Brad Flaxman and Paul Butterworth, but the Eagles came back with seven goals in the middle period, four on the power play. The game took almost three hairs to complete. It was the first time this season the MoJacks EY. victory. They put two in Bowmanville as the MoJacks were thumped 9-3 in a game that was marred by a bench clearing brawl which will result in several suspensions. (See story) Utica Farm comes out on top Over the past week- 'end there was lots of action in the area for the local teams as there was regular league play on Sunday and the host tournament Saturday. As was the case in last year's tournament, this year again saw three of the top four teams come from Port Perry. Emmerson"s Insurance bowed out to Genosha Hotel in the 'B' division final by a score of 2-0. The 'A' division final saw the two top teams from the league, Utica Farm Equipment and Goreski's Insulation hitch up with Utica coming out on top 3-0. Utica also took home the individual awards as Kevin Ibbittson picked up the MVP award, Keith Fraser best goalie, and Marcel Martin top defenceman. On the 'B' side, Emmer- son's Neil Guthrie got the Best Defenceman honours. To get as far as they did Emmerson's lost their first game 2-1 to Westman, then won two PEE in a row defeating Colborne Cobra's 4-0 and Calhoun Cougars by the same score. Goreski's won their first three games by running over the Cobra's 6-0, then down- ing \veedman by a score of 4-1. In the semi-final they came up winners dumping Power Sports 5-1. Utica, who had the perfect day, squeaked past Genosha in the first round 2-1 before blank- ing Oddfellows 30. In -bowing to their semi-final game they eliminated Bea- cock's 2-0. Oddfellows and Beacock's were the other two locals partici- pating with Oddfellows downing Fraserville General Store 4-2 in their first game before Utica. Beacock's started the day blanking Kawartha Jewellery 4-0 and then topping Casey's Road- house 5-0 before losing to Utica in the semi- final. In regular league play on Sunday afternoon Utica and Goreski's again meeting with Utica being the victors to pull three points ahead in the race for first place. With only five games to go in the season, Goreski's will be requiring some help from the other teams to upset Utica. Beacock's are still up on Oddfell- ows by five points for third place after tying Brian's. Oddfellows also had a tie in their game with Emmerson"s. " Scott Wallace each had 'on the power play. Paul ame streak comes toa halt leading Bowmanville Eagles sawed it off in a 4-4 draw, the second time in as many games . these two teams fought to a standstill. have been involved in a bench clearing incident, and if the league deter- mines that Port Perry players left the bench first, the club could be hit with a $300 fine. MoJacks opened the scoring at 1:45 of the 9-7 LOSS first period as Brian Nicholson ~ tapped a loose puck into the Eagle net with Jeff Johnstone drawing the assist. At the Scugog Arena Saturday night, the Mo- Jacks got into a shoot- out with the explosive Port Hope Panthers, and when the smoke e Eagles enjoyed a cleared, the Panther territorjal" advantage were on top 9-7, theif for much of the period final marker going into and Cla vefmg had an empty net. to be sharp An the MoJack net tested 14 times. Midway through the second, the defenseman Rob Nicholson picked off an errant pass at the Eagle blue line and on a clear breakaway, he made no mistake with a hard shot to the top of It was a sloppy game as neither team looked especially sharp, but it was a seven second span midway through the third period which gave the Panthers the goals in to take an 8-7 lead, and despite some strong pressure in the the net. dying minutes, the Mo- The MoJacks had two Jacks were not able to other fine scoring chances on breakaways, but just couldn't get the puck to go in the net. Lovering was again sharp in the middle frame, but he had some bad luck at the 18:48 mark when Mark Hickey scored for the Eagles. The puck took some weird bounces high in the air around the net and Lovering was not able to cover at the side of the crease. John Young pulled the Eagles into a 2-2 tie at 5:50 of the third period. It was one of the few times when MoJacks allowed the Eagles to get a second and third shot in a row. ZAD 8:09, the Eagles went ahead 3-2 when a penalty shot was award- ed to Randy Ellis after a MoJack apparently put . . a glove on a loose puck ed to open things up inj, the crease during a the middle frame witha yjjd scramble. Ellis total of eight goals, four made no mistake on a for each side. All of the phack-hand deke. MoJack markers came get the equalizer. For the MoJacks, Brad Flaxman had two goals and two assists with singles to Jeff McColl, Mike Ryan, Paul Butterworth, Bob Horton and Jeff John- stone. Rob Sedore and two assists. In the game Dec- ember * 29 in Little Britain, the MoJacks cashed in on Merchant penalties to score five power play goals en route to an 8-4 victory. Captain Scott Wallace staked his team to a 2-0 first period lead with a goal at 2:29 on a set up from Bob Horton and Paul Butterworth. His sdcond of the period came at 11:20 with an assigt to Mike Brown. e two teams decid- But at 10:44, Brad Flaxman knotted the score at 3-3-as he tipped in a loose puck off a shot, from Bob Horton at the Butterworth, John Vaz, Brad Flaxman and Brian Nicholson did the damage for the Mo- Jacks, while Siddle, point. Just three Jewell, Young and pjputes later, Horton Barker replied for the slammed a shot off the Merchants. post and Mike Ryén was there to knock the rebound home to give the MoJacks a 4-3 lead. It looked like MoJacks would hang on for a win after they killed a pen- alty at the 14 minute mark, but with 2:06 to go in the game, Gord ! Rogers tied the score as scoring with assists t0 he found a loose puck at Flaxman and Vaz onthe {he side of the MoJack power play. net. The following night at Lovering was caught the Scugog Arena, the for slashing wi MoJacks and league- (Tum to 1) In the final period, Ken Harman kicked aside a dozen shots to keep the Merchants off the score-sheet. Rob Nicholson gave the Mo- Jacks a 74 lead at the 2:07 mark and two minutes later, Mike Brown rounded out the 4 1 3 124