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12 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., January 28, 1981 Sports with Danny Millar bi. No Play-offs for MoJacks Clobbered 10-2 by Cobourg Cougars by John B. McClelland The Port Perry MoJacks will miss the playoffs this year for the first time since a Junior C club was formed in this area. With two games left to play this week, MoJacks are five points behind the Rice Lake Rangers who hold the eighth and final playoff berth in the ten team league. The final nail in the MoJacks coffin was ham- mered in Sunday night at the Scugog Arena by the first place Cobourg Cougars who slammed the Port Perry squad 10-2 in front of the smallest crowd of the "season: The loss to Cobourg followed two defeats on the road last week in Port Hope and Stouffville. (See separ- ate stories for details.) Sunday night against the Cougars, Port Perry played an excellent first period that was fast, clean and score- less. Early in the second, MoJacks took a brief 1-0 lead when Todd Wilbur found the range after taking passes from Peter Griffiths and Dave Canning. Scott Heard was off for holding when the Cougars Pete Williams blasted a 15 footer past Ray Gibson who made the initial stop, at 5:59 of the first. The visitors went ahead for good when Shawn. Turland stole the puck from MoJack captain Darrin Jobb at the side of the net and slid the puck along the ice behind Gibson at 7:24. Paul McCracken gave the Cougars a two goal lead a dozen seconds later when he broke in alone on Gibson who made the initial stop. McCracken batted a rebound out of the air. : Goals by Rick Tryon and Gorde Sharpe built the MoJack goalie Raymond Gibson makes another save during Junior C game Sunday against Cobourg Cougars. Gibson faced 50 Cobourg lead to 5-1 by the end of the second period, and the fast, smooth-skating squad put five more pucks behind Gibson in the final 20 minutes. The only MoJack goal in the third period came off the stick of Pete Griffiths who cashed in a rebound after Mike Albrecht had broken in alone on Cobourg goalie Mark Flesch and fired the puck over top of the net. As he has most of the season, Gibson faced a lot of rubber in the MoJack net. He could not be faulted on any of the Cobourg goals and throughout the game he made numerous spectacular stops. league plays the angles better than Gibson. The PeeWee B defeats Oakwood, by Paul Van Camp On Monday, Jan. 19th Port Perry George Stone Realtors travelled to Oakwood and just came away with a 8-6 victory. Steve Solomon led the charge with a goal and two assists. Willie Edwards got two goals with singles going to Brian Dean, Mike Johnson, Blair Phillips, Chris Cookman and Ron Brown. Mike Gibson earned 3 Port Perry assists with Blair Phillips, Mike Johnson and Bob Goble gaining singles. . Saturday night Port hosted the Oshawa Red Wings and were trounced 8-3, with all three. goals going "to. Karl Durham. Ron Brown, Jim Abraham and Brian Dean Uxbridge picked up assists. Sunday afternoon Port travelled to Uxbridge for their pre-playoff game and won 8-3. Port scored the first seven, then slowed down but held on to hold the easy victory. Ron Brown got a hat trick for Port and Willie Edwards picked up two goals while Bob Goble, Mike John- son and Mike Gibson all got Port singles. Karl Durham set up and earned four assists. Jim Abraham got two as did Chris Cookman. Steve Solomon, Boyd Vand- erheul and Mike Johnson all gained single assists. Port's next home game is Sunday afternoon-at 1:00. See you there! No goalie in the- Cougars had 50 shots on goal Sunday night, while MoJacks managed 30 on Mark Flesch. It was a disappointing season for the club as the team never seemed to get on track. With two games left, the record stands at seven wins, five ties and 23 losses, many of those by lop-sided margins. 'The biggest problem the MoJacks had all year was the inability to control the puck in their end of the rink and mount an offensive attack from behind their own blue line. And untimely penalties cost the team key games during the league schedule. There were several bright points, however, and certain- ly the play of Ray Gibson in Broomball Action J 2 "a ) £ the goal was one of them. When he is on his game, Gibson is the best goalie in the Junior C loop. Forward Todd Wilbur showed flashes of brilliance during the year with some clever goals and play- making, and later in the season, captain Darrin Jobb and Al Lewko began to carry the puck with more authori- shots in the game, many of them tough chances, as he had during most of season. MoJacks lost 10-2 and are out of the playoff race. ty. Newcomers Peter Grif- fiths and Bryan Nicholson showed some talent, but found the going rough in the Junior C league. MoJacks are scheduled to finish the season with a game at home this Saturday evening against Little Britain Merchants. Face-off is 7:00 p.m. C & B, Larocque ready for play-offs by Danny Millar - At least two playoff posi- tions in the Port Perry Broomball Association became finalized on Sunday, January 25 when C & B Livestock nipped Blackstock 3-2 to wrap up first place in the six team circuit and Larocque Electric nailed down fourth spot with a 2-1 victory. The two games had a lot in common with each other. They were both by close, one goal margins, they both had tense endings, they both needed strong games from their key scorers, and they both came at the expense of their closest rival. Blackstock had unseated last year's champions, Utica Plow Jockeys, for the right to finish behind C & B in the league standings. Utica will become the other team to make the playoffs and with all four positions set, the final regular season contests become redundant. Utica may still have a chance at regaining second place from Blackstock. If they did, they would avoid meeting C & Bip the opening round of the playoffs. League leading scorer Robert Evans paced the C & B attack by scoring two goals and assisting on the other. Keith Dalton scored a controversial. goal to put Blackstock on the board and Gord Bryans got the other. Dalton bowled over C & B goaltender Keith Fraser and dislodged the ball from his glove to score for Blackstock 1:52 into the second period. The ball actually rolled ir over the pair as they became entangled on the ice. Fraser stayed down for a couple of minutes and even had to _ come out of the game for a short spell. The play of defenceman Charlie Durward between the pipes could have been a key turning point in the contest. He stood the Blackstock shooters on their collective ears for the three minutes he played, as they buzzed all around the net. Since broomball teams generally do not dress reserve netminders, Durward's background as a puck stopper for the local Junior C team came in handy. Fraser resumed his duties at the 4:35 mark of the period just after Bill Bridge put in a high backhand shot for what proved to be the margin of victory. Evans scored on a power play goal set up with cross- ing passes from Ken Fraser and Durward mid-way through the first period and scored a short handed tally, with Fraser serving a too many men on the ice infrac- tion, after he fired in a loose ball that Mark Lee had let go just before. Bryans scored with 45 seconds left on a deflected shot from 20 feet in front of Fraser to keep the game tight until the very end. Danny McKee and Richard Honey, two of Larocque's top forwards, combined on both goals in the Electrician's slim vic- tory. Emmerson's Bart Wagar EN ATT AYR BRE as wa lid, 44 GR AE BoB O01 i gave his team the short lived lead at 6:30 of the first period on a shot from, the blue line that was redirected on goal- tender Kevin Beer in the Larocque net. Honey set up McKee from directly in front of goalkeep- er Rick Arsenault for the tying goal 6:37 from the end of the opening period of a slower paced contest. There was no scoring during the listless second period, a frame that was restrained by an abundance of minor penalties. Honey made a perfect centering pass from the right wing to McKee breaking down the middle and that proved to be the winning tally. The game was prolonged during the final two minutes by a handful of whistles. During that time, there was two stoppages for icing and two for balls being shot over the boards. Steve Robinson provided an exciting play to end the game when he" shot the ball towards an empty net from inside his own zone. It missed the net by a foot and had to be called back. : i