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Port Perry Star, 24 Dec 1996, p. 25

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SECOND SECTION By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The members of the Scugog Hockey League (SHL) dug into their pock- ets to help make Christmas a bit brighter for a Janetville woman who lost her husband in. a recent car accident. League reps turned over $1,300 last Sunday morning to Mary McGillivray, who lost A husband Paul when his car collided with a school bus last month on Hwy. 7A east of Port Perry. Mary was over- whelmed at this gesture by the players in the League. Obviously, it won't take away the pain she and her four children TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1996 Hockey league raises funds for grieving family are still feeling. Holding back tears, she said the gift of money "is very thoughtful," and will "cer- 'tainly help us out." Mike McQuade had a big hand in raising the money for the McGillivray family. Paul was not in the league, but some of the players knew him whenhe worked part-time at Mother Jackson's. "When we heard about his death, we thought we could do something to help them out," said Mike. Actually, Mike didn't have to do very much. He said the players willingly and quickly dipped into their wallets, and the Turnto Page 29 Mary McGillivray receives a cash Scugog Hockey League's players Sul Making the presentation are St Fitzgerald, John Harman and Mike . | | | 1} : | ! ! | ! | | : : | } Glen, Doyle collect hat tric Goals and more goals in MoJac By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The Port Perry MoJacks and Campbellford Rebels have tan- gled Dt twice this season and the outcome in both was much the same. Goals, goals and more goals. The first time the teams got together for an inter-locking match back on November 3 the Rebels came out on top of an 11-9 shoot-out. Sunday night at the Scugog Arena, the MoJacks turned the tables on their Yule Tide guests by a 10-6 margin as both teams threw any thought of defensive hockey right out the window. That's 36 goals in 120 minutes of hockey, if you count those kind of things. For the MoJacks, the scoring parade could not have come at a better time as the team has been struggling of late turning the red light just five times in their previous three outings. And Matt Glen has found himself a home on a forward line with Mike Pigeau and Todd Stirling as he clicked for a hat trick to double his scoring out- put so far this season. Kevin Doyle also had a hat" trick for the green and white, and he seems to have worked his way out of a bit of a scoring slump. As for netminders Paul Roberts of the MoJacks and his counterpart Joe Warner, suffice to say they were not be eS ---------------------------------------- getting a lot of help out there. Roberts faced 45 chunks of rubber and Warner had to han- dle 37 pucks tossed his direc- tion. No matter what the score, assistant MoJack coach Scott Pinkerton was glad to get the two points and see the team break out of the scoring slump. "We don't like to give up so many goals, but we really need- ed this win, especially right before Christmas," he said after the match. And he was happy to see Sen t his hat trick by charg- Wp net, something the ke have not been doing with any regularity in recent games. On Friday night, MoJacks were pasted 8-2 on the road by Sutton Ice, and Pinkerton said bouncing back with a big victo- ry 48 hours later goes a long way to restoring some bruised confidence. "The guys were really down after that loss," he noted. Glen opened the scoring in this one at the six minute mark when he pounced on a juicy rebound after linemate Mike " Pigeau had made a fine rush into the Rebel zone and got away a dangerous shot on the goal. But just 21 seconds later, Jeff Petherick put the Rebels on the board off a speedy effort down the left side. Rebels took a short-lived 2- 1 lead at 16:53 when Ry: White banked one in from sharp angle as the MoJac had all kinds of trouble clea the zone in the face of son tough fore-checking. But with just three secon left in the first, Pigeau worked his way throug i a crowd in front of the Rebel net to tie the score at deuces after 20 min- utes. y 5 ModJacks went ahead to stay at 2:17 of the second. Rob Simms used his speed to break around the Rebel defense and deposit a back-hand behind Warner who was flat on the ice on the play. It was the first of five points for Simms in this game. He now has 45 on the season to lead the MoJacks in the scoring parade, and stay among the top five in the Central inhi C League. Two minutes later, Scott Heasman also caught the Rebel defense flat-footed as he broke t in from the right side and tucked a quick shot right up under the eaves-trough to give MoJacks a 4-2 lead. From that point on the teams seemed to just trade goals in quick succession with et holding a 6-4 lead after 40 minutes. In the third, Doyle complet- ed his hat trick, as did Glen, and Ryan Speake added one on a power play. For the visitors, Ryan White

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