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22 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. December 11, 1984 Sports : by John B. McClelland It was about this time last year when the league-leading Port Perry MoJacks went into a tail-spin from - which they never really recovered. The story for the team is a different one this season as the MoJacks got off to a poor start and found themselves in the cellar of the Junior C loop. But the MoJacks look Mo Jack forward Brad Flaxman didn't waste this scoring opportunity as he put the puck past Lakefield goalie Terry Eggleton in first period Junior C action at the Scugog Arena Sunday night. Flaxman's goal cut the Chief lead to 2-1 and the MoJacks fought back to take Utica drops first of season Netminder sparkles in 4-3 win over the Chiefs like they are starting to turn things around and have chalked up three straight wins, including a pair of weekend vic- tories over the Lindsay Muskies and the tough Lakefield Chiefs. MoJacks went into the Lindsay Arena Friday evening and handed the Muskies a 7-6 defeat. In front of the home town crowd Sunday evening at the Scugog Arena, MoJacks got a nifty goal-tending perform- ance from Clay Lover- ing as they downed the Chiefs 4-3. High Scoring Brian Nicholson led the team with a hat trick against the Muskies with Paul Butterworth chipping in with a pair and singles coming from Rob Nicholson and Jeff Johnstone. John Vaz had a productive night on the scoresheet with four assists. story) The game was not as close as the score might suggest and the Mo- Jacks were holding a comfortable 7-4 lead with less than a minute to play when the Musk- ies scored twice while short-handed. Sunday night against the Chiefs, Port Perry battled back from an early 2-0 deficit in the first period behind some outstanding work by netminder Clay Lover- a oe Bs ha 11 17] RH ing. It looked like Lover- ing and the MoJacks might be in for a long evening as the Chiefs scored quickly at the 43 second mark when Brad McFadden caught the corner from a very sharp angle. Chiefs made it 2-0 at 12:54 when McFadden sliped out from behind the MoJack net on a power play and again caught the corner with a 5 Q@ a 4-3 victory. It was the third in a row for the MoJacks who look like they are starting to turn things around. The team also clipped Lindsay 7-6 on Friday night. (See Broomball race tightens up The top spots for the play-offs and Regional Playdowns tightened up a fair amount after this past weekends play. Top spot Utica lost their first game of the season leaving Goreski's just one point behind them and Beacock's for the first time are resting in third just one point up on Oddfellows. Goreski -4 Emmersons -3 Goreski's pulled to within one point of first place Utica with this winning effort as Dave Dickson got the ball . MAY XXX) rolling late in the first as he converted a set up from Tom Carroll. Art Mathews of Emme. "ns got that one back 15 seconds into the second half on a solo effort down the left wing. Goreski's again took the lead as Bruce Woodrow and Tim Ashbridge connected. Emmerson's again came back as Charlie Dennis assisted on Les Allen's goal with both teams playing a man short. On the same shift, Bill St. John aided Carroll in putting Gore- ski's ahead to stdy. On the power play Dickson notched his second set pty Woodrow with just (IE ON BE EON 13 seconds to play Emmerson's Bill Gerber made it close when he was fed by Dennis. Beacocks -3 Utica -1 After starting the season with 9 straight wins, Utica tied Gore- ski's last week and this week finally went down to defeat at the hands of Blackstock who have a bit of a streak going themselves as this was their fifth in a row without a loss. Black- stock built up a 3-0 lead by the end of the first as Dave Dalton started it off knocking in Rick Alpe's rebound. Ron Redman then assisted Wayne McGuigan in building up the 2-0 lead. On the ensuing face-off at centre Beacocks stormed down ice where Tom Wotten put in Laval Poulin's rebound. With 5:39 to play Rick McLean's shut-out bid was spoiled when Scott Dezan's shot bounced off the board to the front of the net where Kevin Ibbittson put it in the top corner. Oddfellows - 0 Brian's - 0 With the single point in the tie, and Beacock's win coypled together, Oddfellows have now slipped back into fourth place to start off the second half of the season. They had their chances to win this one" as they had a total of 2 power plays in which Bill Bridge and Dan McKee had a couple of good chances each only to be thwarted by Brian's goalie Ken St. Amant. Brian's also had power play chances too, especially with 24 seconds to go when Oddfellow's goalie, Casey Van Shagen was sent to the box for a 10 minute misconduct, but could do nothing with the advantage. shot along the ice. But less than a minute later, Brad Flaxman broke the ice for the MoJacks from a perfect spot just off the goal crease. Jeff McColl drilled a low shot from the point and Flaxman flipped home the re- bound. The Chiefs out-shot the MoJacks 14-10 in the first period and Lover- ing continued to per- form well early in the second period when he made several tough stops including a clear cut breakaway. The teams were play- ing five aside at 7:58 when Paul Butterworth pounced on a loose puck in front of Chief goalie Terry Eggleton to put the MoJacks into a tie for the first time in the match. Three minutes later as the MoJacks were playing a man short, Jeff Johnstone knocked down a pass at his own blue line and Brian Nicholson grabbed the loose puck, out-raced a Chief defender and beat cleanly with a wrist shot. Early in the third period, Lovering again was severely tested by the Chiefs but he held .a8 ground and kept the MoJacks in the game. The eventual winning goal for the MoJacks came at 10:53 when Jeff game in MolJacks run streak to three games Butterworth did some fancy stick-handling to work himself into the clear and he made no mistake with a rising wrist shot. Rob Sedore and Mike Brown picked up assists. Chiefs narrowed the margin to 4-3 when McFadden netted his third of the game at 19:43, but the MoJacks slammed the door shut in the final few seconds to preserve the victory. The Chiefs had the better of the play for parts of the game, out-shooting MoJacks 36-23, but Port Perry took full advantage of the scoring chances. It was a hard-hitting game, chippy at times in the third period and there was one scuffle at the Port Perry player's bench. The two weekend victories give the Mo- Jacks a record of six wins, one tie and nine defeats so far and the team has vacated the basement in the Central Junior C loop. MoJacks hit the road on Friday night for a Lakefield against the Chiefs and then Sunday night at the Scugog Arena will host the Uxbridge Bruins. It will be the annual Christmas Family Night with lots of free draws. Face off is 7:30. Last minute goal wins it Sunday December 2nd in Uxbridge a goal with 26 seconds remaining in the game gave Sports- land Bantam B's a 2-1 victory. For most of the first period Sportsland controlled the play in Uxbridge end but man- aged only one goal for their efforts. Robbie Brown picked up a rebound on a shot from Kevin Gibson with Paul Wylie also drawing an assist. Uxbridge retal- iated for their lone marker before the period ended. Ricky King made many key saves in the second and third as the opposition threatened to take the lead. With 268 seconds remaining in the game Kevin Gibson tucked away the winning goal with Robbie Brown and Matt Durward assisting on the play. Friday December 7th despite playing much stronger than in pre. an vious games, Sportsland dropped a 4-2 loss to Bowmanville. It was a fast end to end first period with only one penalty, each team lit up the scoreboard. At the 9:51 mark Robbie Brown jammed one in the side of the net with Jon Rodway and Kevin Gibson assisting, only 45 seconds later Bowman- ville had the score tied as a rebound got away from Ricky King. Both teams scored on power plays in the second, except for some excell ent penalty killing by Port the score might have been much higher. Sportsland"s goal was scored by Scott Feasby as he tipped in a shot from Matt Durward on the blue line with Robbie Brown also assisting. 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