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18 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. February 8, 1983 £4 aL) ports NER Lt 2 FCS NE LB AUS WR IA QA LE (Ags RR SHER EN SRR Port Perry now faces Lindsay in best of seven playoff MolJacks demolish the Rice Lake Rangers by John B. McClelland The sparring match is over for the Port Perry MoJacks, the main event is about to begin. As expected, the Mo- Jacks had no trouble putting away the Rice Lake Rangers three straight games in their best of five opening round of the Central Junior C playoff. And they did it in ruth- less fashion with vic- tories of 10-3, 104, and 8-3, the final one coming Sunday night at the Scugog Arena as the MoJacks un-loaded 63 shots at a shell-shocked Darrin Baldini in the Ranger nets. To their credit, the Rangers put up a spirit- ed fight in the series, but they were simply out- gunned by the MoJack scoring machine which was relentless. But the warm-up is over as the MoJacks now face a much bigger and tougher opponent in round two of the play- offs: the Lindsay Muskies, a club which finished first in the regular season with just one defeat and five ties in 36 games. The Muskies also had no trouble dispatching the Cobourg Cougars in three straight in their opening playoff series. The best of seven Muskie-MoJack series gets underway this Fri- day evening in Lindsay with game time at 8:30 and the second game will be played Sunday night at the Scugog Arena with a 7:30 face- off. It should be an excell- ent series with a lot at stake for both teams as the winner will wind up in the league finals. The two clubs met four times during the season with one ending in a tie and Lindsay taking the other three. However, two of the games were very close. In fact, in the final meeting of the year, Mo- Jacks had Lindsay on the ropes in the third period but watched as the Muskies scored two goals late in the game to win 7-6. In the game last Sun- day night against Rice Lake, the MoJacks ex- ploded early in the third for three quick goals to blow the match open. Defenseman Al Eng- berg used his fine shot from the point to score two goals, the second one coming at the 44 second mark of the third period. It was a rising shot that just caught the top of the net and gave MoJacks a 5-2 lead. Twenty seconds later, Dave Alexander con- verted a Scott Dezan to pass to make it 6-2, and 30 seconds after that, Tim Thompson made it 7-2 on passes from Brian Mikkelsen and Derek Brian Mikkelsen of the MoJacks jostles with a Ranger defender during Sunday night's Junior C playoff action at the Scugog Arena. MoJacks defeated the Rice Lake Rangers three straight games scoring 28 goals in the process and pumping a lot of rubber at the Ranger net. But the big test for the Elliott gets underway this meet Lindsay in a four of se this Sunday night at the Scugog Arena, and predictions are that this will be one heck of a series. MoJacks and coach Gary Friday evening when they ven series. Game two goes Pee Wee A's show no mercy The Legion Pee Wee A's showed no mercy as they trounced Uxbridge 12-2 in the first game in the best four of seven series last Friday night. Not only did Port take advantage of power plays to score twice, but picked up two short 'handed goals also in the first period. They con- tinued to increase their pon Re AG hy ware, em a mos comfortable lead at the completion of two periods. Two more goals in the third made it an even dozen before Ux- bridge finally connected for two. Ballingall being test- ed early as Port drew the first penalty with only 50 seconds played in the game, came up with many key saves, keeping Uxbridge off the scoreboard while having the man ad- vantage. With 5:31 re- maing a power play goal by Lally assisted by Brown and Steele had our hgmeown team a slim 1-0 lead. It took only 2:16 to pop in three more, the second goal again on a power play was scored by Menzies from Traves and Feas- by. Controlling the play by Geer while short handed resulted in a breakaway and a goal by Brown, Barkey doing an excellent job on the same penalty jammed one in the corner of the net making it 40. Brown picking up his own re- bound after taking a 'pass from Barkey open- Cook of a sure goal after having a breakaway, for the remainder of the period Port just kept popping in the goals, Menzies picked up his second of the game assisted by Sorley, Brown scored his hat trick goal assisted by Steele, then Geer added the next two with Sorley and Menzies assisting on both, an unassisted goal by Traves complet- ed the second period scoring. Menzies picked up his hat trick in the third assisted by Geer, while Bailey earned an assist on the final goal by Connors. Uxbridge connected for two, late in the period. The next game will be played in Port Perry on Friday, Feb. 11th at 9 o'clock. Edwards. Rangers got a goal back at 2:45 as Mike Robinson beat Ken Har- man with a low shot and _ Scott Wallace then scored the final MoJack goal at 7:37 as he pump- ed in a rebound off a Darrin Jobb drive from the point. MoJacks opened the scoring just 21 seconds into the game when Dezan pounced on a re- bound at the side of the Ranger net. At 1:18 of the second, Jamie Bird took a good pass from Wallace to make it 2-0 and then Engberg drill- ed a shot from the blue line to make it 3-0. Rangers fought back with two goals by Karl Runnals and Steve Mc- Gill, and then Brian Mikkelsen made it 4-2 at the 19 minute mark of the second as he jamm- ed in a rebound. That set the stage for the scoring outburst in the first minute of the third to give MoJacks the victory and the series. In game two of the series also at the Scugog Arena Saturday night, MoJacks took an early' lead on a goal by Bird at 7:35 and then Rangers went ahead 2-1 as Ken Donaldson and Jim Goody beat Clay Lover- ing in the Port Perry net. Darrin Jobb tied the score late in the first, and then midway through the second, Mo- Jacks broke the back of the Rice Lake team with two shorthanded goals in a row. The first was credited to Mikkelsen after it went into the net off a Ranger player's skate and Mikkelsen did all the work on the second with some fine fore- checking to feed a pass from the corner to Todd Wilbur who was cruising in front of the net. Those goals took the starch out of the Rangers, and proved to be the turning point of the game. Other marksmen for the MoJacks in game two were Jamie Bird (with a hat trick), Tim Thompson, Scott Dezan, Gord Rogers, and John Fusco. MoJacks fired 41 shots at Jim Welch in the Ranger net, while Lovering had 32 in the Port Perry goal. GAME ONE way last Wednesday night in Rice Lake and for a while it looked like the MoJacks might have their hands full with the Rangers who took a 2-1 lead into the dressing room after 20 minutes. But Darrin Jobb tied the score at 2:07 of the second on a slap shot and then in the span of five minutes, the Mo- Jack scoring machine went to work with four goals from Tim Thomp- son, Dave Alexander, Bob Horton and Brian Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen scored his ~ second late in the period to make it 7-2 before Scott Dezan converted passes from John Fusco and Glenn McKay. In the third period, Wallace got a goal at 11:05 and then late in the game Dezan finished off the scoring on a quick shot with assists going to Fusco and Bob Horton. The game was a very chippy affair in the second and third periods with almost 100 minutes in penalties. Ranger defenseman Howie Crowe took nine minors in the opening game and --that was a prelude of his- _performance in the next two. In game two in Port Perry, Crowe took all five of his team's minor penalties, and in game three he was sent off five times, including a 'five minute slashing penalty late in the match as he tried to cut Scott Dezan in half with a vicious two-hander to the mid section. Dezan wisely did not retaliate. MoJacks took ad- - vantage of the Ranger penalties during this series with nine power play goals, while giving up just three when they were a man short. Ken Harman got two of the MoJacks victories while Clay Lovering was in the nets for the other as both goalies turned in steady games and had Jots of help from the defense. A major factor in the three victories was the play of all three forward lines, and other than a brief let-down in game three, the team put together nine solid periods of hockey. But when MoJacks take to the ice this Fri- day night at the Lindsay Arena, it will be like the start of a brand new season as the Muskies are fast, tough and have a potent scoring attack. Both teams have momentum going into the 1 : \ straight victories (the Muskies beat Cok by lop-sided scores), Tum to page 20) \