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TT I-- 22 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. February 17, 1987 Port Perry Star ~~ Jubilation is too mild a word to describe the atmosphere in the Goreski Insulation Bantams dressing room Saturday night after the team | captured the trophy in a day-long tournament at by John B. McClelland The Port Perry MoJacks have taken a stranglehold in their best of seven Junior C playoffs with the 'Lindsay Muskies. The MoJacks have won three straight games over the Muskies "and they could wrap the series up with a vietory in Lindsay in game four this Wednesday ev ening (Feb. 18). The series opened last Thursday night in Port Perry where the Mo- Jacks drubbed the visitors 8-2, followed by a 6-3 win Friday night' in Lindsay. Back at the Scugog Arena for the all important third game on Sunday night, the MoJacks had to come from behind in the final period to nip Lindsay by a 54 margin. In the first three games, the Mo- Jacks have capitalized on the Muskies inability to stay away from the penalty box. They have scored eight goals on the power play, in cluding two in the third period Sun- day night which turned the game in Port Perry's favour Trailing 3-2 going into the final period, the MoJacks took full advan tage of a foolish penalty on the part of the Muskies Bucky Adams. He took a poke at a MoJack after the buzzer at the end of the second and wound up in the box for two minutes at the start of the third period Len Giacalone. who is turning in to a scoring star for the MoJacks waite just 19 seconds into the third togett a rebound. And Giacalone then put e tying goal as he tapped inc seats. his team ahead at 6: 2s, again on the power play when he rifled a shot through traffic from about 15 feet out. Rick Wilson and Bob St. Jules drew assists on both markers. At the mid point of the period, the Muskies drew even at 4-4 as Clint Adams beat Brian Tarleton with a rising shot from the face-off circle: Over-time appeared to be on the horizon, but with less than four minutes to play, Bob St. Jules broke the dead-lock. He found himself alone in front and made no mistake with a quick shot to the corner. Greg Warriner was instrumental in set- ting up the play as he did some fine work along the boards behind the 'Lindsay net to control the puck and feed the pass to St. Jules in front. e Warriner had a goal earlier in the game as did Brian Prakken. For the Muskies, Duane Webster, Greg Newell, Scott Hamilton and Adams were the marksmen. Warriner is having himself a heck of a series so far. In Lindsay on Fri- day night, he scored a natural hat- trick in the third period (one-on a power play and two short-handed) to stake the MoJacks to a 6-3 vic: tory. He also chipped in with an assist for a four point game. Captain Andy Sutch had a pair while Chris Nicholson netted a single as the Mo- Jacks scored four times in the final veriod to put the game on ice Besides coming up with some big goals, Warriner is playing his usual strong checking and penalty killing game. And he's showing no concern for his own safety by throwing his v 1) a Is ~ Scugog Memorial Arena. The clincher was a game between Port Perry and:Aurora, a close match that had Port fans on the edge of their weight at some of the big Lindsay defensemen. His play this series has , been an inspiration for the team. Len Giacalone is also playing the best hockey of the season. With five coals. he's displaying a deft touch around the net, especially on the power play. There's no love lost between these teams and the bad feelthgs threaten- .- 'ed to erupt into a full scale brawl at the conclusion of Sunday night's game as both teams did some. pushing and shoving at centre ice. Dave Sims of the MoJacks and Ed Leeuwenburg of the Muskies got in- to a wrestling match and several other scraps threatened to break out before order was restored. Prior to that outbreak, the Mo- Jacks had taken just four minors in the game, while the Muskies were called nine times. In Friday's game in Lindsay, the MoJacks took 18 minors and fighting majors to Clay Dempsey and Rob Phinney. The Muskies were called for 18 minors, a slashing ma- jor, one misconduct and two fighting majors. The MoJacks opened the best ol seven playoffs with Lindsay Muskies last Thursday night at the Scugog Arena with a near flawless performance in which they com: pletely -«dominated the visitors at hoth ends of the ice en route to an 8-2 victory Len Giacalone checked for a hat trick. Darren Nesbitt had two. with singles coming from Craig Menzies Chris Nicholson and John Hartford r The Goreski Insulation Bantams opened a busy weekend with a 5-1 playoff victory Friday night in Huntsville. Todd Taylor led the way with-3 goals while Mike Sorley and Gerry - Douma each added 1 goal. Clair Cor- ~ nish pitched in with 3 assists the first of which was his 100th point of the year. Kevin Gibson, Chris Legere: and Derek Fitzgerald all added 1 assist. On Saturday morning Goreski's played the opening game of our tournament hosting arch rival Ux- bridge. The Port boys controlled this game from the outset and won 5-1. Taylor again led the way with a hat trick, the fourth game in a row he has scored at least 3 goals. Cor- nish and Gibson each added single markers. Sorley added two assists while Todd Poppleton, Gibson, Taylor and Cornish all added one. Goreski's second game of the day was against Port Hope and for the third consecutive game won by a 5-1 score. Jason Weinhold opened the scor- ing assisted by Derek Fitzgerald and Kevin Gibson. Chris Legere gave Port a 2-0 lead assisted by Gerry Douma and Graham Sullivan. Port Hope narrowed the score to : one before Gibson restored the two goal lead assisted by Weinhold and Cornish. Paul Wylie then scored on a blistering slapshot assisted by Cornish and Fitzgerald. Cornish MoJacks up three i in battle with Lindsay Rick Wilson had three assists on the night, and Nesbitt and Brian Prak- ken each had a pair of helpers. All three of Giacalone's goals came from in close as heconstant- ly had his big frame parked right on the doorstep of the Lindsay net. His first came at 5:07 of the open- ing period on the power play. With "+Lindsay netminder Bob Topper out of position, Giacalone corralled a ~ big rebound off the backboards and calmly tucked the puck into a wide open cage. That's the way the opening period ended, as both teams played it cautious and conservative. But at the 1:29 of the second, Nesbitt went to work on the power play and rifl- ed a slap shot from about 30 feet out. Just past the mid-point Chris Nicholson buried a Rick Wilson re- bound to make it 3-0. Late in the period. Lindsay got on the board on a goal by Steve Black. He slid a backhand along the ice and the shot seemed to catch MoJack goalie Brian Tarleton off guard. The MoJacks outshot Lindsay 17-8 in this period and were it not for the work of Topper in the Muskie cage. the score would have been much higher The third period was just 39 seconds old when Giacalone made it 4-1 on g sharp angle shot from in close and then John Hartford shovelled a rebound over Topper at i to up at to 5-1, he micest looking goal of the game was scored at 4 56 by Crag Menzies He took a from Nicholson off the boards. scooted in pass Port Bantams take the tournament gold then finished off the scoring assisted by Gibson and Taylor. The assist by Taylor allowed him to be the second member of the Goreski team to reach 100 points this year. This victory put Port in the final against the Aurora Minors. This was a close contest with the winning goal being scored by Sean Bradbury with only 1:32 left onthe clock. Gerry Douma and Mike Sorley also scored once to give Goreski's the 3-2 victory. Todd Taylor picked up 2 assists while Graham Sullivan, Chris Legere, Clair Cornish and Mike Sorley each picked up one assist. After the game Clair Cornish was awarded the tournament M.V.P. trophy for his fine.play all day. Special mention should also go to goaltenders Chris McConnell and Brad Bricknell for their fine play in allowing 5 goals in their last 4 games. This was Goreski's fourth tourna- ment championship in the six tour- naments they entered. The boys ° should be very proud of this ac: complishment as much of it was done against teams of a higher classification. The team must once again con- centrate on the matters at hand which is a playoff game Monday night against Huntsville. If a fourth game is needed in this best of 5 series which Goreski's 'lead 2-0 it will be played. Wednesday night in Port Perry at 8:15. from the right side and put a great move on Topper to open up the en- tire net for an easy tap-in. The Muskies made it 6-2 on a short-handed goal by Bucky Adams and then they ran into a series of penalties, most of them for slashing and high sticking. The MoJacks peppered Topper with all kinds of shots and Giacalone got his hat-trick on a deflection from right in front. With 1:35 left and the MoJacks still on a power play. Nesbitt drilled a puck that beat Top- per cleanly to make the final 8-2. The Muskies didn't themselves at all in the third period as they hacked and chopped at the MoJacks who showed a lot of poise in not resorting to similar stuff in retaliation. Bucky Adamstof the Muskies was assessed a five minute slashing ma- jor for a vicious two-hander at the skates of Bob St. Jules who had to be helped from the ice surface. Four of the MoJack goals came on the power play. The MoJacks would dearly love to end this series on Wednesday night Several players are limping and Craig Menzies will Be out for the rest of the season with a shoulder injury suffered Friday night when he was blind-sided in the centre ice area The team will miss his play-making and scoring touch. If the Muskies win the game on Wednesday night, the two teams return to the Scugog Arena Thurs- day night (Feb. 19) for an 8:30 face in game five i v Fn ATE SOR ge A help MES bel ie 3 oy - bo oF £5 ti Ce RR RR ly Lh Bo CRT i HEMI Ea SE i A » Wie vA LE BE SKE SE