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---- -- "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR The PPHS Senior Girls Basketball team won the gold at AA LOSSA Championships on November 18. The team defeated Brock in the final to claim the first LOSSA championship for a senior girls team. Brock had won the title the last five years. Pictured are the members of the winning team. Front row from left are: Jennifer Tingle, Alicia Bentley, Lori Buscher, Shawna Cornish, Gretchen Cornish. Back row: Christie Corden, Vanessa Gibson, Jodi Ko- nick and Kylie Kearns. Absent from photo are Sherri Hvidsten and coach Bryan Davies. Bantam As put In a strong showing On Saturday, Nov. 21 the Country Style Bantams trav- elled to Cobourg for a tourn- mant. The boys played a total of three games throughout the day. In the first game they met with a team from Flamboro. The team got off to a bit of a sluggish start in the first peri- od, but picked up a lot of mo- mentum as the game pro- gressed. They all played well and skated hard, to get a well deserved win of 3-0. Scoring for Port was: Ian Shrigley, Kenton LeFort, and Jay King. Kenton, Jay and Jere- my Geer each had an assist. Scot Prechitko received a well deserved M.V.P. for his shut- out. Later in the afternoon, they played a team from Belleville. The Country Style Bantams came out skating hard and showed good passing skills. They were eagerly anticipating a win. They dominated most of the play for the first two peri- ods. The line of Ian Shrigley, Jay King and Kenton LeFort showed great hustle and made some effective passes, as they were responsible for all four goals. Ian netted all four goals. Assists went to Jay and Kenton. Kevin Hobbs also had an assist. All other team members showed a very consistent effort and played a strong aggressive two periods. In the third period, Belleville began to score. The final score was 4-3 for Port's Country Style. M.V.P. for this game was Ian Shrigley. Super game, Ian! The last game of the day was against Whitby. We all knew that this would be a tough match and luck was not on our side. The boys had many shots on the opponent's net in the first period, but the puck would not bounce in our favor. To- wards the end of the first period the Whitby squad began their scoring. They continued into the second. By the third, our boys had their game back on track. They worked hard and played a solid third period. But Whitby won this one. M.V.P. for this game was hard working Jay King. The next time we meet this rival we hope to come out victo- rious. The fans are very confi- dent this will happen if our boys continue to play with the consistent effort that they showed in this tournament. Ninth win of MoJacks defeat Chiefs PPHS girls win LOSSA fo third straight win The Port Perry High School Senior Girls' Basketball Team captured its first ever LOSSA "AA" League Championship on Wednesday, Nov. 18 with an ex- citing 43-37 victory over arch ri- val, Brock High School. The game was a tough physical bat- tle with both teams in early foul trouble. After a strong start, the Port offence slipped in the sec- ond quarter and the half-time score was 26-20 in favor of Brock. However, in the second half, a very persistent interior defence led by Jody Konich, who blocked four shots in the second half and Ww Kylie Kearns, Alicia Bentley and Vanessa Gibson completely frustrated the Brock attack. Su- perior defensive contributions were made by Christie Corden and Jen Tingle, who did not al- low their opposing players to score a single point. The Port Perry offence was keyed by Gretchen Cornish, who scored a game-high 21 points. Shawna Cornish played a very strong two-way game de- spite committing her fourth foul late in the third quarter. When Shawna was on the bench, Sherri Hvidsten and Lori Bus- cher both played admirable games. Coach Bryan Davies is very proud of his players who have, despite the usual ups and downs of any season, pulled to- gether when they had to. Port Perry will now enter the DYSSAA Regional Champion- ships as the No. 1 seed from Durham Region. The DYSSAA Championships, to be held Nov. 27 and 28 at G.L. Roberts High School in Oshawa, will deter- mine our Regional All-Ontario representative. Congratula- tions to all of the Rebels!!! KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR The PPHS Junior Girls Basketball team also won the gold at LOSSA defeating Brock in the final. Pictured are the members of the winning team. Front row from left are: Mr. Ride- out, coach, Dana McCullough, Amanda Webb, Amy Parliament and Jill Criscione. Back from left are: Julie Ball, Marci Zuly, Karen Kett, Andrea Rudy and Erin Hassell. Absent from photo are Keely Meade and Sarf Coyne. Both teams will be competing in DYSSAA on No- vember 27 at G.L. Roberts High School. By Shawn Bastarache It was a win, but it wasn't pretty. Thursday night the Port Perry ModJacks won their third straight as they downed the vis- iting Lakefield Chiefs 6-2. With his club chasing both the Bowmanville Eagles and the Chiefs in the Central Onta- rio Jr. C. standings, head coach Brad Ryder wasn't about to re- fuse the two points, though he hoped for a better effort from his team. "I wasn't happy with the way we practised Tuesday night and it definitely carried over into the first period tonight," said Ryder following the MoJacks' ninth win of the 1992-93 sea- son. "I think because we won a couple of games some of the guys think they can lay back," he said. "What they've got to realize is that they won those games be- cause they worked hard." At first glance, it seemed as though the MoJacks wouldn't have to work hard to pick up a win Thursday night. Lakefield dressed only 13 players and, when Jim Vernon scored only 10 seconds into the game, it looked like the Chiefs might roll over and die. Such was not the case, howev- er, as Lakefield tied the score on a goal by Dan Rutherford at the 2:14 mark of the first period. For the rest of the opening frame the MoJacks may as well have been on a pond playing Shinny. Apart from communication breakdowns and several mental errors, the MoJacks also had trouble sparking their offence. Ryder's club likes to play "dump and chase" hockey and do it with some success. Thurs- day night, the MoJacks were trying to do too much against the Chiefs' defence. "We weren't penetrating their end," Ryder said. "We were trying to carry the puck in vhen (Lakefield) were stacked across the blue line, instead of just dumping it in and going af- terit," he said. The Modacks, rookie right- winger Brent Gaylor in particu- lar, came alive in the second pe- 10d and started to take the play to the Chiefs. Gaylor, on a line with Vernon Brent Gaylor hat trick against Chiefs and Jarett Harman, scored a hat trick in just 17 seconds and the ModJacks suddenly found themselves leading 4-1 only five minutes into the second period. "T got the right bounces I guess," said Gaylor after the game. The six-foot-two-inch, 195- pound rookie said he was "at the right place at the right time." Port Perry continued to domi- nate the second period out- shooting the Chiefs 19-5, and with just over a minute remain- ing Clair Cornish walked in un- molested and beat netminder Turnto Page 24