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-------------------- I -- ------------ I -- -- A ---------- ---------------- YS ---------- 1 | | | 4 AY Nuts About Chocolate Bonspie Nuts About Chocolate held their annual Ladies Club Bonspiel last Saturday night at the Port Perry Curling Club. Twelve rinks competed in the day lo emerging victorious. Pictured above with the Nuts About Gibson, skip; Marion Loyst, lead; Patti Goreski, vice skip and Susan Griffin, 2nd. Country Style Bantams win Ernestown tourney The Port Perry Country Style Bantams As had a busy holiday season competing in: tournaments in Bowmanville and Ernestown and also play- ing a rescheduled league match with Lindsay. The Bowmanville tourna- ment started on a high note, as the Country Style crew played a solid, efficient game scoring a goal per period to sweep all five points from Whitby. In the next two games, however, a tendency to individual play and some costly penalties were the team's downfall. One goal in the right place in either game could have propelled the team to a berth in the A final against the Sylvania, Ohio Hawks, but instead they had to settle for a spot in the C championship. Jay Tredway opened the scoring in game one against Whitby with an unassisted goal late in the first period when he won a 1-on-1 matchup and blasted the shot. He was also involved in the 'second goal just before the middle of the game. Joe Broadworth's check took the Whitby defence- man off the puck in the corner, Tredway picked it up and then Sean Ellis made no mistake with Tredway's rebound, scor- ing high over the downed goal- ie. Jeremy Norton finished the gooring in the third period, taking Scott Heasman's pass at the point, then walking in to pick the far corner with a wrist shot, while Port was on a pow- er play. Game two was against a big Toterborough Nationals team. The scoring started early as the fans hardly got settled be- fore Chad Kearns took a fine Jay King pass from the wing to the slot and beat the goaltend- er from close range. Within two minutes, the Nationals came back to lead 2-1 when Ja- son Phillips took Matt Morris's pass and ripped a long shot through the 5-hole to tie it up. With under two minutes to go in the period Peterborough scored again and the 3-2 score held until the third. A goal for Port in the third would have tied the game and given Port a split of the five points, however it was the Na- tionals who potted a late one and held on for the final 2:13 to take a 4-2 victory and re- strict Port to a half point. This Pseulied in ort enter- ing game against the Oshawa Red Wings with 65.5 points to Oshawa's six for sec- ond position in the division, needing to beat the Wings in a couple of periods as well as the game. Ian Shrigley put Port on the board early in the first. Kearns won a faceoff in the Oshawa end and Shirgley jumped into the circle to fire the screened shot by the net- minder. Tredway gave Coun- "try Style a 2-0 lead early in the srcond. Phillips and Jeremy Geer combined to move the puck to the Port blueline, where Tredway picked it up and broke away to put a nice outside move on the defender and power a shot that the goal- event with the Ellen Gibson team late trophy are, from left, Ellen ie got a piece of, but had enough steam to through. Taking 14 minutes in penal- ty time to the Wings four hurt as Oshawa pumped in a late goal to close to 2-1 and tie the second period, then scored a power play marker in the third to force a 2-2 tie and more im- portantly, win the period to split the five points and rele- gate Port to the C champion- ship against the Bowmanville Toros. The tie was a doubly costly loss for the Country Style crew as they lost Scott Heasman with a broken leg suffered in a collision with the boards. Scott is another player who will be missed both off and on the ice for his leadership, his anchor position defensively, and his explosive offensive ability. The Toros drew first blood in "the C final, scoring with 2:10 left in the first period when Mike Pashley had trouble with a carom off the end boards. Dave Bourgeios got that back 1:07 later, striping the puck from Toro's Robinson at center ice and breaking in to beat the goaltender with a nifty move and some excellent second ef- fort. The home team came right back to regain the lead on a nicely executed tip-in just 15 seconds before the period ended. In the opening minute of the middle frame Kearns picked up a Shrigley pass and cruised in to score on an accurate, bad- Turn to Page 23 trickle "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" First loss in 13 home stands MoJacks lose to Uxbridge Bruins By Al Bailey Just when everybody thought turkey time was over for another year, the MoJacks hit the ice Sun- day night and proceeded to play like a bunch of them. As a result, the Uxbridge Bruins gobbled them up and carv- ed out a 7-4 victory in the process. It was the MoJacks first loss in 13 home stands and the only time a club other than Little Britain Mer- chants has beaten them in 27 games this season. The Bruins obviously came to play hockey. The MoJacks didn't, or at least they didn't show it on the ice. That was the difference. Sure, the MoJacks are still comfortably perched on top of the heap in the OHA Central Ontario Junior 'C' league. Sure, they were playing without the services of defenceman Brian Shelfoon and forward John Lally who began serving league- imposed suspensions. d sure, with such a huge first-place lead, complacency was destined to show its ugly face. Not even Coach Ken Harman's dressing room tirade between the second and third periods, which could be heard half way down the alley under the stands, had much effect. . Although they did rally in the opening minutes of the third to come within one goal of the Bruins, the opposition regained a two-goal cushion, and with just 18 seconds remaining to play, put the MoJacks out of their misery with an empty-netter. We're not sure to whom Coach Harman directed his wrath, but it could very well have been the team as a whole following a hor- rific second period. Here's the way the game went. Just past the mid-way mark of the first iod, Mark McKay finished off a rather nifty passing lay from Mike Coulson and Clair rnish to give the MoJacks a temporary lead. But wi Just over two minutes to ) play in the frame the Bruins tied up the match with a goal by Jason Underwood, assisted by Greg Cook. In the second period, Under- 'wood notched his second goal of the night at the 5:48 mark and Greg Ferraro added another at 6:23. Then at 10:52, Ryan Coburn tallied and 10 seconds later Trevor Low found his scorin touch to give Uxbridge a 5-1 lead. Cornish, assisted by Coulson finally answered the wake-up ca with just over a minute left iri the Period, but the Bruins now led by The big story of the second iod was shots on goal. Ux- ridge goalie Ian Witucki faced only five shots, while Marc Dek- ker in the MoJacks' net faced 21. For the earl going in the third period it loo like the Port - squad would snap out of the doldrums. Coulson, from Jim Vernon and Trevor Mcintyre, found the mark for Port Perry's third goal at 4:18, and a -minute later, rookie defenceman Gavin Cochrane took a Kevin Ba w back at the point and blasted the puck into the net to bring the MoJacks within one goal of the Bruins. But the comeback was short- lived. At the 6:33 mark, and with his team playing short-handed, Coburn scored his second goal of the game to give Uxbridge a two- goal lead. That's when the Bruins went in- to a defensive cocoon and con- finued to frustrate the Msdacky y brea up passing plays an dumping the Aimy into the Port Perry zone. : Late in the period, Dekker was lifted in favor of an extra shooter, and even with an Uxbridge player in_the penalty box for the last minute and 47 seconds, the Mo- Jacks couldn't the trigger. Finally, at 19:42 mark Underwood gained possession of the puck deep in his own zone and sent it flying the le right into the vacant Port Perry net. It was his third goal of the Turn to Page 24 is made. tact Ron Martyn at 986-5952. Cartwright Minor Ball revises age categories and adds two new levels The minor ball program in Cartwright is expanding for 1992, to include two new levels of ball teams and revised age ca ries. Starting this spring, five and six-year-olds will join an organized T-ball program, co forms and regular scheduled league games. In addition, other player age groupings have been changed to two-year incre- ments, rather than the previous three-year jumps. There will now be four age divisions prior to senior (over age 12) ball. In announcing the changes, ball executive members identi- fied reasons including improving the development of younger players, providing a more even balance of players at and encouraging new or less experienced players to join through the more accomodating age categories. It has been not- ed that some players may be dropping out or not joining be- cause of the previous large age spreads. The category will provide more evenly balanced levels of play. The league is hopeful that with this expansion of playing ages and age categories, there will be a substantial increase in the number of players and teams. While there will be increased demand to find more coaches, sponsors and provide more equipment, the executive members are confident that any in- crease in the number of players can be managed. The lesgue has confirmed that there will again be coaching clinic time prior to the new season to help develop the skills of new coaches and to facilitate those of returning coaches. The new age categories for the en and eight, nine and 10, 11 and 12 and a senior division of 13 to 16-year-old players. Players would have to be the age of their division as of Jan. 1, 1992. The names for éach age division will be confirmed within the next three weeks, when the decision re- garding the introduction of baseball or continuation of softball Registration is tentatively scheduled to begin in February, so people are encouraged to watch for announcements. In the meantime, anyone with questions or suggestions regarding these changes to Cartwright Minor Ball are encouraged to con- tego- able to mplete with ing, uni- levels, new two-year age will be five and six, sev- of the ice