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What a difference 24 hours made for the Port Perry Mo- Jacks. The team went into the Bowmanville Arena Saturday night for a game with the first place Eagles and played near flawless hockey to skate away with a well deserved 6-3 victory. But the guys must have left somethingin Bowmanville. Hosting the Uxbridge Bruins Sunday night at the. Scu- gog Arena, the MoJacks went flat in the second period and stayed that way as the Bruins ducked out of town with a 4-3 win under their belts. The loss snapped the Mo- Jack un-defeated streak at five games (four wins and a tie) and prevented the team from creep- ing closer to first place Eagles in league standings. The Bruins opened a 1-0 lead early in the first as Kirk Smythe beat Dwayne Mackie off a rebound. John Harman tied things up a couple of minutes later on the power play with help from Dave Burnett and Brad Men- zZies. Dale Jones spotted the visi- tors a 2-1 lead at the 15:29 mark, and at 18:45, the Mo- Jacks began to show some signs of coming to life as John Lally did some fine work behind the Bruin net to corral a loose puck and feed a pass in front to Men- zies who went through the goal- ie's legs with a quick shot. At 2:40 of the second, Har- man fed a pass from behind the Bruin cdge and Lally made no mistake to give the MoJacks the lead for the first (and only time) in this game. Burnett drew the other assist. But about the 12-minute mark, things began to go sour for the green and white gang. The ModJacks were having all kinds of trouble moving the puck from their own zone and the Bruins struck for two goals Pee Wee A's MoJacks down the Eagles 6-3 but lose to Uxbridge Bruins 4-3 / ModJack netminder Dwayne Mackie keeps a close eye on the action while one his team- mates battled with a Bruin forward in front of the net. Action took place Sunday night at the Scugog Arena as the MoJacks and Bruins, two traditional rivals, hooked up in a Cen- tral Junior C League contest. The visitors went home with two points, thanks to a 4-3 win over the MoJacks, thelr first loss In five games. With a win Saturday over Bowmanville 6-3, the MoJacks still have a shot at first place with six league games remaining. (see story for all the detalis) in the span "11 seconds, the first by Jones and the second from the stick of Jason Underwood. That gavé the Bruins a 4-3 lead, and they did a pretty good job the rest of the way in bot- tling up the MoJack attack. It was just "one of those games" for the MoJacks where nothing seems to go right. The team had a great chance to getgoing early in the third with a two-man advan- tage, but the usually potent power play hardly had a shot on goal. A few minutes later, Jim Vernon had a clear cut breaka- way, but Mr. Puck rolled harm- lessly off the end of this stick as he was about to un-load the shot. Vernon usually has a deft, touch with the puck in these kinds of situations, but it was notin the cards that night. And to cap off the grim pe- riod, the MoJacks got all tan- gled up in front of their bench Legionaires blank Uxbridge The Port Perry Legion Pee Wee A's completed their Lakeshore League season this weekend by recording a win and a tie in two games. Friday night, the Legionaires hosted Uxbridge and, although still short-staffed, put together a nice passing display for a 9-0 win. The game was in doubt for less than a minute as Jeremy Norton and Sean Ellis set up Joe Broad- worth for the first of his two goals after only 9 seconds. With Mike Pashley nursing a sore hand, James Patterson and Steve Gilbert made sure that goal was the winner by sharing a shut-out. Jay Tredway, Neil Mueller, Scott Heasman, Sean, and Joe again provided a 6-0 lead by the end of the first period. After the break, the onslaught slowed a bit as Uxbridge attempted to get more physical, but Port continued to throw the puck around well and work on their finesse. Neil, with his second, and Dave Bourgeois scored in thé second and Craig' Laird finished up the scoring with one late in the third. Assists in the game were earn- ed by Sean 4, Joe, Jay T., Jeremy and Craig 2 each, Scott, Neil, and Dave 1 each. This game saw Kenton LeFort and Matt Morris temporarily join Mike and Chad Kearns on the in- jury list due to some 'hazardous' off-ice activities. Luckily, they returned to action after this game and there is a strong possibility that Coaches Geer, Teno and Burnett may actually soon have their roster intact. If that hap- pens, it would break a string of 31 games with at least one player out. These changes meant the Legionaires were reduced to two lines as Billy Zaparanuik dropped back to fill the hole at the blueline. Sunday afternoon Port travell- ed to Port Hope where the teams took turns dominating play and finally settled for a 4-4 tie. The Redmen were leading 2-0 when 'Job Made a rii¢é fish, circled the net and found Sean in front to get Port rolling. Just over a minute later Billy tied it on assists from Jay T. and Matt. : After Port Hope took a 3-2 lead, Jay T. opened the third period by tipping a loose puck into the net to finish off an excellent combina- tion with Sean and Joe. Only 90 seconds later Dave completed another tic-tac-toe play with Jeremy Geer and Craig, as he tip- ped one in from the edge of the crease for a 4-3 lead. Unfortunately, Port Hope knot- ted the score at the midway point of the period on a power play. Sean came within an eyelash of winning it on a shorthanded breakaway in the last minute but Port Hope's strong goaltending produced a big save to preserve 'the tie. The Legionaires will be playing in an A & AA tournament in Lind- say next weekend, starting agpinst barber at9a,m, Satur, , ay morning. trying to get Mackie off the ice for an extra attacker and (guess what) got called for too many men on theice. It wasn't the same team that cruised to a 6-3 win Satur- day night over the Bowmanville Eagles, the second straight vic- toryovertheleadersin the Cen- tral Junior C standings. MoJacks opened up a 3-2 first period lead on goals by Menzies, Lally and Darrin Lee, and then really took control of thingsin the final two periods. Harman, Burnett and Ke- vin Gibson rounded out the scoring. Dan Maw and Chris Arsenault each had a pair of as- sists to help the cause. For the Eagles, Chris Smyr, Shane Armstrong and Dave Fairey did the scoring. The two points pushed the MoJacks to 42 for the season, just three back of Bowmanville going into Sunday night's ac- pon, The Eagles have a game in and. SLAPSHOTS: MoJacks next game is this Friday night when the journey to Uxbridge, and You can bet they'll be looking for a little revenge for the 4-3 loss. On Sunday, Jan. 14, they play host to the Ajax Axemen at the Scugog Arena with faceoff at 7:30 PM. This Saturday evening (Jan. 13) at 8:00 PM, the All- Star game will be held in Little Britain. (see separate story) And for fans ho are not able to get to the game, CKLY Radio will broadcast the match. With the Central Junior C schedule rapidly winding down, the MoJacks have just six gameslefttoplay. One of those games is with first place Bowmanville (the teams have each won twice and tied once , so this will be the rub- ber match) _ And it could be very impor- tant for the ModJacks in the quest to slip by the Eagles into first place. The team still has a shot at catching Bowmanville, but it would mean "pulling out all the stops" over the last six games. The MoJacks may just want to "play it cautious" these last six games, secure their grip on second, and try to make sure that all the troops are healthy and rested going into the playoffs, which are less than four weeks away. Matts Scooter named 89 Harness Horse by Trotting Association Matts Scooter has been named 1989 Harness Horse of the Year by the United States Trotting Association. The four year old pacer, owned jointly by Chérles Jura- vinksi of Dundas And Gord and Illa Rumpel of Utica, became the first Canadian owned horse to win this honour back-to-back since Cam Fellain 1982-83. Matts was the overwhelm- ing favourite in the polling by 267 American Harness Horse Assoc. writers, collecting 176 votes. Matts last year started 30 races and finished first in 23 of them, winning $1.14 million in thepracesa................. CentrelceStablesoflelington.. . - He has won nearly $3 mil- 'lion in his racing career, and holds the world record for the fastest mile, set in 1988 in Ken- tucky at 1:48 2/6. Matts has retired from rac- ing and is now standing at stud in New Jersey. Stud fees are set at $20,000. Ironically, he had been scheduled to retire before the 1989 season, but returned to thetrack for another year of rac- ing when he failed a fertility test. Swedish-owned Peace Corps was runner-up to Matts in the voting, with earnings of $1 million, while the third place horse was Goalie Jeff, owned by