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4A - PORT PERRY STAR - TUESDAY. MARCH 13, 1990 The Port Perry MoJacks have opened a 3-2 lead in their best of seven series with Bow- manville Eagles and they could wrap things up to-night (Tues. March 13) at the Scugog Arena. In what has been a strange series to date, the teams have seen the momentum switch a couple of times in their quest to capture the Central Junior C League title. And nowhere was this more evident than in the jam- packed Bowmanville Arena Sunday night when the Mo- Jacks demolished the Eagles 9- 0. It was the second "blow- out" in the series as MoJacks pounded Eagles 11-1 in game two last Wed. in Port Perry. That gave the team a 2-0 lead in the series and appeared - to give the MoJacks the momen- tum going into the games Fri- day and Saturday nights. But Friday night in Bow- manville, the ModJdacks came out flat, the offense disappeared and the Eagles skated to a 3-0 victory. And on Saturday night in front of a loud, boisterous crowd at the Scugog Arena, MoJacks appeared to tire badly in the third period as they gave up three goals and allowed the Ea- ~ gles to tie the series at 2-2 with a 4-3 victory. It looked like the fatigue factor was finally catching up to the boys in green and white as Eagles Nick Dennis popped the winner with 1:49 to play in the game. But the MoJacks had other ideas and 24 hours later in the Bowmanville Arena, they put on a tremendous display of of- fense and defense, shutting down the Eagles power play, checking them into the ice at every turn and firing nine goals past netminder Ian Cooper. They led 2-0 after the first, 5-0 after two and added four more in the final period. Six of the goals came on the power play. Todd Taylor, who has been playing his best hockey of the season in a checking role, turned sharp-shooter in this one with three goals and two as- sists. Linemate Jim Vernon fired a pair, Warren Geer had a sin- .gle as did Kevin Gibson. And Gibson had a couple of nifty as- sists as well. But it was John Harman who really set the tone for this game with a pair of goals in the first period. At the mid-point on the power play, he tipped one across the line after the puck had tak- en a crazy bounce off the back- boards. Three minutes later (again on the power play) Harman fin- ished of a tic-tac-toe play at the side of the cage with Dave Bur- nett and Brad Menzies setting the table for him with some great passing. Perhaps the prettiest goal of the game came early ir the - second as Gibson broke in on a partial breakaway. Just as he was being checked, he drop a pass to Vernon who fired it past Cooper. Every time he looked up, he could see the white sweaters of the Port Perry MoJacks (15 John Lally and 8 John Harman) swarming around his net. MoJacks had It all their own way Full marks in this one to the checking by Darrin Lee, Ke- vin Desrosiers and Todd Taylor, especially when the ModJacks were short-handed in the mid- dle frame when the game was far from decided. And Lee, as he has all se- ries, continued to shadow Glen Campbell, one of the Eagle snip- ers. Tony Sortino was steady in the MoJack cage to get the shut- out, facing 35 shots, and in the first period, he had a little help from a "goalie's best friends." This was another chippy, "in your face" hockey game with numerous penalties to both sides. GAME FOUR After getting blanked 3-0in game three Friday night, the MoJacks continued to struggle in game four Saturday at the Scugog Arena. Eagles Shane Armstrong staked his team to a 1-0 lead in the first before Brad Menzies tied things up at 13:36 from Chris Arsenault and Harman. Late in the period, Rob Wil- letts drifted in from the blue li- neto bat home a rebound and the MoJacks took a 2-1 lead into the locker room. Jim Vernon made it 3-1 mid-way through the second af- ter he was sent in home free on passes from Taylor and Con- nors. Vernon, who is having him- self a dandy series, faked left and moved to the right before slipping the puck along the ice into the middle of the net. But Eagles were not fin- ished by a long shot. They took advantage of a double minor to Paul Wilkins at 14:17 to make it 3-2 as George Pithie fired one past Sortino. Armstrong got the equaliz- er early in the third as the Mo- Jacks were not able to move the puck out of their zone effective- ly. And the winner came late in the game as Nick Dennis de- flected a shot from the point. MoJacks came close in the dying seconds to forcing OT when Steve Connors rang a boomer off the cross bar, but Ea- gles went home with the 4-3 win and what appeared to be abush- el basket full of momentum. The 9-0 drubbing the next night in Bowmanville killed that momentum in abighurry. - GAME TWO The MoJacks went ahead 2-0 in the series March 7 at the Scugog Arena as they opened the scoring flood-gates to pound the Eagles 11-1. One would have to check the record books to find out the last time a Bowmanville Jr. C club surrendered 11 goals in a game. But the game was not near- ly as one-sided as the score indi- cates. In fact, the Eagles came out of the gate in a hurry and could easily have jumped into an ear- ly lead were it not for the stellar netminding of Tony Sortino. He was nothing short of brilliant in the first period, and made one toe save on a point- blank shot that left the Eagle shooter shaking his head in amazement. But the ModJacks weath- ered the early storm and scored It was that kind of night for Eagle goalie Scott Webster. last Wedensday night on home ice as they defeated Eagles 11-1 to grab a 2-0 lead in the Junior C championship series. For details on that game and the serles to date, see article. a couple of beauties late in the period. : Steve Connors on a power play hit at 17:31 with a perfect shot upstairs on a great pass from John Harman. And one minute later, Jim Vernon was sent in alone. He made the shift to the left and put the disc home to give Mo- Jacksa2-Olead. . Dave Burnett went top shelf early in the second from Harman and Connors at 2:56, and at 5:28 perhaps the biggest goal of the game came off a de- flection by Todd Taylor who got his stick on a Chris Arsenault shot from the point. That was a big goal as the Eagles had been exerting con- siderable pressure on the Mo- Jack net, only to be foiled by Sortino. Midway through the peri- od, tempers flared in nasty fash- ion when Eagle Greg Goode wrestled Darrin Lee to the ice. Goode managed to flip Lee's hel- met off, and opened a mean looking cut on Lee's head. With blood streaming down his face, Lee headed to the lock- er room for repairs, and Goode headed for the showers with a game misconduct, five for fight- ing and a two minute instigator penalty. Lee got a roughing mi- nor. On the same stoppage in play, ref Jim Houston sent Rob Willetts out of the game for fail- ing to go to the bench and hooked Eagles Dave Fairey for the same reason. As Fairey was being escort- ed to the exit, Tony Sortino whacked him on the seat of the pants with the goal-stick, touch- ing off another skirmish. Sortino wound up with five for fighting, five for slashing and three game misconducts. Fairey got a double game and five for fighting. Sortino said later he whacked Fairey with the stick because he spat on him. In any event, Sortino's exit brought Dwayne Mackie off the bench to tend the MoJack cage, his first action since game one of the Uxbridge series. And Darrin Lee returned to the ice after getting patched up in the locker room. The ModJacks seemed to get inspiration from Lee's return (it takes more than a cut on the head to stop this guy) and the fact that Mackie had to come off the bench "cold" to face the dan- gerous Eagle shooters. Brad Menzies promptly blasted one through a crowd to make it 5-0, before George Pi- thie scored the lone marker for the Eagles. But with just over a minute to play in this wild period, Ke- vin Desrosiers streaked in on a breakaway and made no mis- take with a shot through the pads of Scott Webster, who had replaced Ian Cooper. With a 6-11ead starting the third, MoJacks took complete control of the game, tightened the screws defensively and poured on the scoring power. Warren Geer, Taylor with his second, Lee, Kevin Gibson, and Vernon with his second in the final minute rounded out the 11-1 victory. Eight of the MoJack goals came on the power play. kagles (Turn to page 5) SG Sg. 7 a i Cy