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a "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 7, 1992 - 19 Big V Pee Wee team come up big at Omemee tournament The Big V Pee Wee House LF ague team has been quite busy of la having just played in two tournaments e past couple of weeks. Their first tournament was on Dec. 28 at Manvers Arena. The Big V boys started the day off against the home team from Man period had the vo tea scoring once with Big V's goal co from Jeff Whitfield assisted by Kent Johnston. The second period was all Manvers as they pi ed up two more goals to jump out to a 3-1 ead vers continued to carry the y into the third picking up - a goa) making it 4-1. Big V replied with a goal of their own from Jeremy Gibson with Jeff Whitfield assisting on the play but it was once again. Manvers picking up a goal to finish the game with 8 5.3 win, The boys second game pitted them against a s 'skating team from Uxbridge. This is ex- actly what they did as they just out hustled the Big V team and jumped out front by a 2-0 score. Big V team doesn't know the mea of the word quit as they rallied together and started to take over game. First' it was Jeremy Gibson from Doug Short late in the se- cond period to make it 2-1. Then early in the third period it was again Jeremy Gibson from Kent Johnston Wyatt Park to tie the game up at two a piece. With Big V's goalie Ryan Puckrin stop- ping everything Uxbridge fired at , his team kept on plugging away and finally with only a lit- tle over a minute to go ip the e it was Kent Johnston on a ine solo effort that scored to give ig V a well deserved win. ith the win over Uxbridge this put the Big V boys into 'B' inals against Port Hope. The Big V.team was on a definite high as they came out flying. The first period had the Big V boys jump out into a 2-0 lead on goals by Wyatt Park and Kent Johnston with assists going to Phil Donnel- 1 Noah- Smith and Kent ohnston. The second period belonged to Port Hope as the Big V boys an to tire out and Port Hope tied the game at two after two iods of play. The third period d both teams playing hard with lots of scoring chances but Ryan Puckrin in net for Big V made some fine stops. With the score tied and only four minutes left in the game one of the referees made what is like- ly the most outrageous call of the tournament when he awarded a Easuin play Port Hope scored play k ope Sco 0 0 out front 3-2 and at the same e killed the spirit of the Big V "Port Hope quick quickly scored again oh the detlated Big V toam and won the game by a 4-2 score. The Big V boys were awarded very nice 'B' mp finalists trophies with Kent Johnston also picking up the Best Effort A. Also having very strong performances in the tournament were goalie Ryan Puckrin, forwards Jeremy Gibson and Jeff Whitfield and defencemen 'Big' Nick Skerratt and Wyatt 'Orr' Park. The Big V team next travelled to Omemee on Jan. 4 for their se- cond tournament of the season. Big V found themselves facing off against the Bancroft Jets, and 'A' team that seems to like beating up on house league teams. Needless to say Bancroft easily beat the Big V boys by a score of a whole bunch to one. Ryan Puckrin scored the lone goal for Big V with Jeremy Gibson assisting on the play. he pig V boys now came up against St. Pauls out of Peter- porgugh, Putting the first game them the Big V boys came out determined to win this one. The first period ended in a scoreless tie with Doug Short coming up with some big stops in the Big V's net. Midway through the second period it was Big V that broke out on top as Wyatt 'Orr' Park set up Jeremy Gibson who made no mistake putting the Big V team up 1-0. Dh. Pauls got 2 break ane broke g Short's shutout by u the game half way into the third period. But Big V was not to be ied this game as they con- tinued their hard work and it paid off in the dying minutes as Kent Johnston scored on a nice set u by Jeremy Gibson to give Big a 2-1 lead. Big V hung on to take the win and move into the 'B' finals. ~ Special mention goes to Big V's defence of Ryan Williamson, Luke Newman, Noah Smith, 'Big' Nick Skerratt and Wyatt 'Orr' Park that played extremely well that waschan or been in net since last year. with the assist going to Alicia. XL Gas Bar Eaglettes cruise to 8-2 victory The Eaglettes travelled to Markham to finish the first half of the schedule. The girls were looking to give themselves a win as a Christmas present that followed the team party the night before. With our earliest start of the year (11 a:m.), the eyes were a little weary upon arrival at an arena location d at the last minute. Sarah Verschuuren volunteered to go into goal so that Ali- cia Burgess, our regular goalie, could have a chance to play out. Sarah did a stand-up job allowing only two goals against. A special thanks to Sarah for her great team atti- tude and for doing such a super job. Sarah has not practiced Melissa Hooker opened the scoring a minute and a half into the game on a set up by Nicole Virtue, Alaina Davis notched her third of the year next with the assist going to Leanne Davison. Port stretched its lead when Stacey Cun- ningham slipped one past the Markham netminder on a pass from Melissa. Melissa made it 4-0 with five min- utes left in the first period with an unassisted goal. Just six seconds later Markham netted their first goal. Nicole playing a strong game with lots of hustle made it 5- 1 when Stacey led her nicely to put Nicole in for a pretty goal. At this point, all players were being rotated to give everyone a chance to play all positions. This worked for Katherine Cooke, a regular stand-out red stick, as she put one in the net on a pass from a hard working Kristin Waller. Alicia, roving to be an asset to this team in goal and out scored for foe first ever goal on an unassisted effort. Rounding out the scoring getting her first goal also was Janna Ostafichuk The final score in this pre-Christmas game was Port Perry XI, Gas Bar 8, Markham 2. The effort you display girls is paying great dividends. Keep it up in the new year, the schedule is going to be very challenging. 2 keeping the opposing players away from the front of their own net and broke up numerous rushes as well. With the win over St. Pauls the Big V boys now came up against Warkworth for the championship. These two teams were both even- ly matched and both teams were playing their best hockey. The irst period ended in a scoreless tie with Big V having the best chances as Jeff Whitfield narrow- 'ly missed a couple of chances from close in. Due to a shortage of forwards Big V's defence show- ed their versatility as Noah Smith had to be moved up from his defensive position to fill in on the wing. Noah showed how versatile he is as he opened the scoring for Big V on a nice set up by Phil Don- n and Kent Johnston. a 8 second period Sed with ig V up 1-0 and Doug hang- ing onto his shutout bid. The third iod was just as fast paced as he first with both teams going har Big y hed lon to their ous goal lead until a tripping penaity and bench minor (sor wn 1 ) put the Big V boys shorthanded by two players. The penalty killers played well but Warkworth kept he pressure on and finally managed to tie the game. Regulation time ended with the teams locked at one a piece and it was now a five minute sudden death period to be played. Both teams gave it their all and after the five minutes it was still a tie game and we now moved into the eaded shoot-out. In a shoot-out each team selects five shooters who will each take a penalty shot on the opposing goalie as the op- posing team takes penalty shots on your goalie simultaneously. With Big V's five shooters ready and Faring to go and Doug Short minding the Big V net we were ready to go. Kent Johnston went first and scored. Doug made - the save at the other end and Bi V is up 2-1. The second pair wen with neither boy able to score. The third pair went and Doug made a big glove save but the Big V shooter was shut down also. The fourth pair went with Warkworth able to get one by Doug and Big V unable to score and we are again tied at 2-2. The fifth pair came to the line and the tension mounted. Wyatt 'Orr' Park cooly gathered in the puck and headed toward Warkworth's goal as the Warkworth player eaded toward Big V's goal. The Warkworth forward shifted left then right and back again but Doug stayed with him, cut off the angle and made the save while at the other end Wyatt made no mistake Dulting fie uck into the net giving the Big V boys a well deserved championship win. The boys were all presented very nice trophies for their vic- tory as well as three of the boys Doug Short, Kent Johnston and Jeremy Gibson received best ef- fort awards that were selected over the course of the day. Once again it was a total team effort from the Big V boys that won the tournament for them. BDAYVIONID Malmont Atom As win the B title in Bowmanville Classic GAME ONE Port Perry 5 - Hamilton 1 Dillan Weber scored from Seth Gray, Seth Gray scored from Dillan Weber and Scott * Jeffrey, Adam Jones scored from Dillan Weber, Casey Van- Shagen scored from Brad Johnston, Adam Jones scored from Casey VanShagen. Dan- | iel Lee played in goal for Port Perry. Shots on goal, Port 33, Hamilton 17. GAME TWO . Peterborough 3 - Port Perry 0 GAME THREE ort Perry 4 - York Toro's 4. Seth Gray scored from Dillan Weber, Derek Tindall scored from Scott Harper, Danny Lyons scored from Derek Tin- dall and Casey VanShagen, Seth Gray scored from Dillan Weber and Brad Johnston. Daniel Lee played in goal for Port Perry. Shots on goal, Port 26 - York 12. GAME FOUR Port Perry VS. Welland for Major '"B" Champion- shi Port Perry's Malmont Farm Atom "A" hockey club put the heat on Welland right off the bat. The Malmont boys used the Welland goalie for target practice the first three min- utes of the first period with the Welland goalie coming up big to keep Port off the score sheet. Welland tested Port Perry's goalie Corey Branton twice in the first period from close range but to no avail. Shift af- ter shift of Port Perry players 'tested the Welland goalie, but he stood frim. At 1:49 Justin Kowalcyzk put a nice pass into the Welland zone to Seth Gray in the slot, back to the point to Jeff Ashton who blasted a low shot and "he scores", Dillan Weber tips in the shot from the point to give Port the all important first goal. The first period ended with Port outshooting Welland in the opening period 8-1 and only coming away with a sin- gle goal. The second period Welland came roaring back puting all kinds of pressure on Port Perry. They had the Ma- mont Farms team trapped in their own zone with! the Port goalie getting a pretty good workout himself until Welland got a breakaway at 6:45 and beat the Port goalie on a good hard shot to the top corner to go ahead 2-1 as the second pe- riod ended. The third period was going Welland's way with Welland hemming Port in their own zo- neand at 13:57 scored on a nice two way passing play to VINYL SIDING D4.5 COVE (white) E, 00 per sq. (approx. 100 sq. ft.) ALSO ... Soffit, Seamless Eavestroughing, Shutters A Complete Line of Metal Siding 30004 Hwy. 48, PEFFERLAW 599 Steven Court, NEWMARKET Buchner Manufacturing Inc, 705-437-1734 416-836-1033 1-800-461-6455 take a commanding 3-1 lead early in the third period on three power play goals. At 8:34, Port got a ""tic-tac-toe" passing play going when Jus- tin Sheehey took a pass off the glass, put a lead pass up to Ca- sey VanShagen steaming up the middle, over to Danny Lyons and "look out this thinks not over yet!" Port laying as a team in like they did in the first period, passing the puck at will in the Welland zone" as only the Malmont "As" can"do when they put their minds to it. At 6:31 Adam Jones stopped a clearing pass deep in the Welland zone, in the slot to Scott Jeffrey, over to Derek Tindall and "hello Dolly" she's all tied up with Port cranking up the heat a notch. Welland took the play down into the Port Perry end of the rink and made the Port goalie make a few saves to keep the score tied at 3. At 2:14 Casey VanShagen grabbed the puck at the Port Perry blue line, up the boards to "Dillan Weber who hit Seth Gray at the Wel- land blue line and from. 15 feet out unleashed one of his over powering wrist shots to beat the Welland goalie cleanly to give Port the go ahead goal. - With Port sporting a one goal lead with just over a min- ute to go in the game, Welland pulled their goalie in favor of an extra attacker. With 20 sec- onds showing on the clock, Ca- sey VanShagen fired the puck down the ice just short of the Welland goal. Dillan Weber and a Welland forward raced for the loose puck and with one hand Dillan fired the puck into the empty net with 12 seconds left in the game. The horn sounded to end the game with Port Perry Malmont Atom "As" winning the B Division Cham- pionship for 1991. Total disipline, dedication and team play is a combina- tion hard to beat. Honorable mention for good "hustle goes to Derek Tindall. Honorable mention for good defensive effort goes to Justin Kowalcyzk. Honorable men- tion to Casey VanShagen, Harper, Ashton, and Kowal- cyzk for their great work in the rear court doing a great de- fencive job. Shots on goal - Port 31 - Welland 26. Novice action The Auctioneers rounded out their league home schedule Fri- day night against their arch rivals, Uxbridge. The boys skated to a three all draw. The game see-sawed back and forth with Port Perry opening the Braden scoring with a fine goal Tarbotton, assisted by n Jef- frey. Uxbridge evened the score Midway sivongh the second period. Scott Brownson one-timed a picture pass from Stephen Wygerde with three minutes to go in the second to put Port ahead once more. Also drawing an assist on the goal was Sean Jeffrey. Early in the third, Uxbridge tied the game and moments later, David Justynski slid in from the blue line to wrist a hard shot past a screened Uxbridge netminder. Drawing the assist was Billy Carr. scoring with an opportune goal late in the third. Pro & The game was fast (hated ex- citing and penalty free! Port Perry has had a very successful season and now will play in a Drew hes Sw while awai ir playoff schedule. y xbridge closed out the