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-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. February 12, 1985 -- 21 Mi RS CT by John B. McClelland In a game that left many fans at the Scugog Arena shaking their heads in amazement, the Port Perry MoJacks fought their way back from a 4-0 deficit to defeat the Little Britain day evening in front of They madeit2-0atthe Thornbury made it 4-0on Scott Wallace made it a scramble, and it wasn't GAME SIX Merchants 8-5 and win one of the largest crowds mid-point of the first a two on one break with. 4-3 at the 4:47 mark when until late in the period The final match in this the best of seven quarter to witness a Junior Ccon- When Kevin Barker Paul Young. he forced a giveaway at when the MoJacks tiedit series was almost a com- finals four games to test in a long time. pumped ashotpast Clay ~~ Ken Harman had the Merchant blue line again. plete reversal of game three. All the marbles were Lovering from thesideof replaced Loveringinthe and hit the top of the net Bob Horton, who pro- six the previous night in This stunning come on the table for both the thecrease,andlessthan MoJack net during the with an off-speed shot bably had his finest Little Britain when the from behind win last MoJacks and the Mer-. half a minute later, Dar- first period. that fooled Merchant game all season, lugged MoJacks opened a 3-0 Thursday evening gave chants, and it looked like ry! Patterson increased Atthe2:30markof the goalie Ron Stewart. the puck through centre first period lead and then the MoJacks the right to the visitors from Little the lead to 3-0 on a second, the MoJacks And at 6:17, the Mo- ice, scamperedarounda watched as the Mer- meet Bowmanville Britain were going to Screenedshotthatseem- began their come-back Jacks made it a brand Merchant defender and chants took control for a Eaglesinabestof seven walk away with the ed to catch Lovering off whenJeff Duncanfireda new game when Ryan then went to the back- 5-3 victory to tie the SAL a - " i { <& Pa y 'y y % ! Ps. * nd E " L® J 1% a TC fn, ASR i xX * nn fy tS BR EUR pew Te PA A 2 TUN Tes The Scugog Arena was packed to the rafters last Thursday night as the Port Perry MoJacks and Little Britain Merchants squared off in game seven of their playoff series. Trailing 4-0 at one point early in the se- cond, MoJacks staged quite a come-back to win the Orangeville opponents in next round Central Junior C semi- finals. Game vne was held Sunday night in Bowmanville separate story). But the MoJacks finest hour so far this hockey season came last Thurs- (see / game and the series. Merchants opened the scoring at 3:08 when Chris McLean tapped in a puck that was sitting on the goal line after a scramble in the MoJack crease. balance. The Merchants con- tinued to press through the first period and edr- ly in the second they looked like they were in complete command of the game when Willy scored and assists went to Steve Connors and Jamie Menzies. Jamie Menzies scored the se- cond goal and Mark Barkey assisted. Ux- up the score at 2 apiece. In period three with Port Perry being short handed, Uxbridge pulled their goalie and prompt- ly scored with only 20 seconds left to play. Game two played in assist going to Andrew Steele on the first and Brad Menzies and War- ren Geer on the second goal. Uxbridge then took over in the third period played in Uxbridge on by Mark Elliott and Brad Menzies unassisted. In the second period Brad Menzies scored with Jeff Oke and War- 3-2 for Port. The third shot from the slot and ex- actly one minute later, Brian Nicholson cut the Merchants lead in half as he jammed a puck in from the side of the net. Mike Ryan helped set up both these goals. game 8-5 and take the series. That's Wayne Snodden of the MoJacks cruising in front of Merchant netminder Ron Stewart. Port Perry opened the semi final series against Bowmanville Sunday night and came up on the short end of a 6-5 score. (See story for the details) Nanay who wasted no time getting Port a much needed goal. Mark Barkey scored the final goal assisted by Greg Stapleton. Well done ready. got his stick on a Jeff McColl shot from the point as the Merchants were short-handed. But the Merchants went ahead 5-4 midway through the period when Kevin Barker scored off hand to beat Stewart cleanly for a picture goal that knotted the score at five each. The second period was probably the best 20 minutes of hockey the ~ MoJacks played in this long, gruelling series as they out-shot the visitors 13-10. With the game and the series on the line in the final frame, the MoJacks continued to dominate the Merchants and at 4:12 Wallace got what proved to be the winner. It came on a Merchant power play as Jeff McColl broke in on net and fed a pass to Wallace 'who tucked the puck in the corner of the cage. Paul Butterworth gave the MoJacks a two goal bulge at 8:37 with sheer hard work in front of the Little Britain cage. He battled a couple of defenders for the puck and finally pushed it across the line. The final marker of the contest came at 14:06.as the MoJakcs enjoyed a man advantage. Defenseman Rob Nicholson fired a low slap-shot from the right side that found the cor- - ner behind Stewart. The Merchants seem- ed to be shell-shocked but they weren't going down without a struggle to the wire and Harman was tested on several occa- Jaguars - 35; Leopards - 29; Tigers - 26; Panthers - 20. Games over 200: Cor- inne Watts - 276; Diana Brough - 209,224; Dorothy Bristow - 209: Rankin - 200; Marg + Gimblett - 'MoJacks finally subdue Merchants puck just before a Mer- chant got his stick on it for a breakaway. But the final period belonged to the MoJacks as they out-shot the Mer- chants 20 to ten. series. Brian Nicholson, Mike Brown and Paul Butter- worth scored in the open- ing period for the Mo- Jacks, but the Merchants took over in the second with three of their own by Greg Jewell, Brian Beukeboom and Darryl - Patterson. And they scored twice in two minutes midway through the final frame with . Sports Gord Cawker and Kevin Barker finding the range. Merchants enjoyed a wide margin through most of this game and fired 61 shots at Ken Har- man who was superb. Scott Wallace and Jeff Johnstone were thrown out of the game in the first period for a scrap with Chris McLean and Gord Thompson, and the MoJacks missed their checking the rest of the game. This series was cer- tainly one of the most ex- citing Junior C playoffs for the MoJacks in several years, and the dominating factor was the failure by either club to sustain momentum and put together three solid periods of hockey. Six of the seven games could be described as cliff hangers, including one that went into over- time. MoJack goaltenders Harman and 4 sions. He made an Lovering. both had fine r n ams ous X rl £8 outstanding glove save series. They faced a lot of late in the game and at rubber and their play one point left hisnetand was probably the i On Tuesday Feb. 5th Port then roared back Uxbridge on Wed. Feb, Sunday and Goreskiboys period was end to end skated narly to the blue deciding factor as far as \ the Port Perry Bantam with 3 goals, the first by 6th, Port Perry showed came to play and play hockey with hard hitting line to smother a loose Port Perry is concerned. A's hosted Uxbridge for Jamie ad Te eneies little effort of the they did handing Ux- and Shecking, Warren) o : the first game of t unassisted. second previous game and Ux- bridge a 5-2 loss thus ved a coup : of two out of three play- by "Relic" Nanay bridge wereupby goals oliminating Uxbridge. Questionable hits that Bowl i ng News off series that Port won assisted by Derek Fit- before the first period Once again Stacey almost put him out of the 54. zgerald and Mike Sorley. ended. Ballingall played very ame. Withonly5:2%left 0 0 00 pelow- 202; Vivian Rider f With Stacey Ballingall The third by Brad Men- well in net stopping to play, 'Pllipper -214.247: Gail Kowal in net playing strongly zies assisted by Jeff Oke Brad Traves scored many sure goals. First McBride carried the LADIES BOWLING - 208. G lil a oot czy Port took onan early two making the score 5 to 2 twice for Port in the se- period goals went to Ppuckintothecornerand Team Standings: Bett: ail Loud : 215. 277 goal lead. Greg Stapleton for Port Perry. cond period with the Greg Stapleton assisted passed out to "Relic" Pumas-44; Cougars-35; oY FE © Fels ty Collins - 247; Gail Bolton - 239; Myrtle Vernon - 218. | bridge came back with Close checkingandhard handing Port a 6-2 ren Geer getting the boys, good luck against High Single: Corinne one in the first periodand hitting were Port'skey to defeat. assists. Uxbridge scored Orangeville. At this time Alice Glasbergen - 218; Watts - 276. one in the second to even success. Game three also twice ending the period the game scheduleisnot Carol Wilson - 212; Pat High Triple: Vivian Rider - 622. 206; Elma . | A