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22 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 1,1994 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" A we u yo SCOTT ANDERSON / PORT PERRY STAR Port Perry High School's Senior Boys basketball team defeated a team from Courtice 77-57 to take the LOSSA championship and advance to the DYSSA finals. Pictured is the winning team. (Front) Jason McBride, Todd Smart, Steve Parish, Gary Norton and Chad Venning. (Back) John Sanchez, Kent Jamieson, Jeremy Harton, Allan Fogetti, Jeremy Luke , Paul Linton and coach Bill Langley. KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR The PPHS Midget boys basketball team claimed the silver medals at the LOSSA finals held at PPHS on February 25. The team lost the gold medal match to Exeter High School of Oshawa by a 58-35 score. Pictured are the members of the silver-medal team. Back row from left are: Travis Hockley, Josh Rodd, Glenn Espie, Matt Brown, Jay Fletcher, Ron Kel- ly, Chris Arnold, Ron Pither, coach, (front) Chris Faulkner, Rod Greenough, Andy Mitchell, Colin Laird, Ryan Williamson and Steve Davidchuk. MoJacks eliminate Merchants, lead 1-0 in league championship by Shawn Bastarache Shannon Todd scored twice, including the game winner, as the Port Perry MoJacks defeat- ed Little Britain 3-2 on Thurs- day at Scugog Arena to take the best-of-seven series four games to one and advance to the Cen- tral Division finals. of After thrashing the er- chants 8-3 Wednesday night, the MoJacks had a chance to eliminate Little Britain on Thursday and, despite a solid outing for Merchants' netmind- er Don Fleming, they did just that. "He's a good goalie and to- night he played real well," Port Perry head coach Brad Menzies said of Fleming's performance Thursday nicht. "But if we work hard enough anything can hap- pen." Words to live by perhaps but for the Mo.Jacks these are words to win by and it was never more evident than in game three of the series where the ModJacks erased a H-1 deficit to win in overtime. Making the loss even tougher to take for the Mer: chants was the fact that it came in their own rink, in front of their own fans. "I think that was the back breaker for them," said Men- zies. "I mean, they were ahead 5-1." Menzies, though not disap- pointed with the series out- come, was a little surprised that it was over so quickly. "I really thought it would go at least six games," Menzies said. "I know how tough it is to win in (Little Britain) and we went in and stole two games." That's precisely what hard work can do for a team and Menzies is hopeful his club will stick to their game and give the kind of effort they'll need when they meet Bowmanville in the Central Ontario [inals. "We've got to keep going, keep playing tough hockey," sind the young Port Perry skipper, who captamed the MoJacks the Last time they advanced to the league final in 1991-92, when they defeated Tattle Britian an a four-game sweep to claim the Central Ontario crown. Menzies said that, despite now being the coach as opposed to a player, he still feels the same pre-game Jitters in the playoffs. "It's the same in that youre nervous before the game but af- Turnto Page 25 Overhead Doors are Eastern Ontario champs On Saturday, Feb. 26 the Scu- gog Overhead Doors Peewee B hockey club hosted Newmarket in game four of their best three out of five series. With Port Perry holding a 2-1 lead in this series it was an important game for both clubs and a do or die for Newmarket. Port Perry got into the first period in a hurry as they took the play right to Newmarket. Scott Sanderson was in all alone on the Newmarket goal- tender at 14:00 only to be turned away empty handed. Nick Pelyk put a big hit on a Newmarket defender behind the Newmarket net at 12:58. The play was back and forth with Newmarket having their chances but coming away emp- ty handed as Chris Jones made a few good defensive plays to keep the game scoreless. At 11:53 Brad Johnston set up Scott Sanderson in front but the goaltender came up big once again. Port Perry was playing as a team and not as individu- als. The Port Perry coaching staff had the Port Perry boys pumped for this one as they were really flying out there. Da- vid Gainey slammed his man into the boards at 9:20 creating a huge turnover and allowing Deryk Campbell to get a good shot at the Newmarket net. At 8:06 Newmarket was deep in the Port Perry zone and the Port Perry captain David Gai- ney took the heat off by dump- ing the puck down the ice out of harms way as Port was trying to kill a penalty. Blayne Kinnunen was handing out some big hits in this game and gave #18 for Newmarket a big one along the side boards. Scott Sanderson took a good pass from Brad Johnston and Deryk Campbell air mailed one just over the top corner at 5:28. Scott Sanderson and Brad Johnston in on the Newmarket goalie and what a glove save he made on Johnston. David Gai- Turnto Page 24 PPHS rugby team heading overseas By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Thirty-five rugby players from Port Perry High School will be heading overseas next week for a two-week tour of Eng- land, Wales and Scotland. For the past several years, Port Perry High School rugby teams and British teams have visited each.other"s school on in- tervening years. PPHS students have made the trip overseas four times and students from Bischopton School in Wales have been to Port Perry four times. The PPHS players held fund- raisers throughout the year, in- cluding a program full of adver- tising from local businesses, to help with the cost of the trip. The remainder of the cost is be- ing paid by the individual players. The PPHS rugby players, who will be accompanied by coach Ron Pither, Paul Arculus, assistant, and two other teach- ers, will be leaving for England on March 8 and returning on March 23. The first stop for the team will be England, just north of Lon- don. They will continue on for one game in South Wales, one in Scotland's east side in Hawick and one in the west in Troon, Scotland. The students will fly to Lon- don before travelling by bus to each of the schools. In between games the players will be billet- ed at the homes of their counter- parts. The Port Perry High School Rugby season does not get un- derway until the spring, allow- ing the players to use this trip as a warm up prior to the begin- ningofthe season. Mr. Arculus said he believes this should be an interesting tour for the boys as last October for the first time in history the Canadian National Rugby Team defeated the Welsh Na- tional Rugby Teamin Wales. "It will be a historicevent and a symbol of the increasing popu- larity and skill level of rugby in Canada," Mr. Arculus said. "For PPHS this tour will con- tribute to an increase in skill level," he added. Techstars advance to All-Ontario finals The Port Perry Techstar Ban- tams are on their way to the All Ontario finals after posting a 2- 0 victory over Newmarket on I'riday night. This was playoft action at its best with plenty of excitement at both ends of the ice. John Babeock played a flaw- less game in net to record the shutout. The first period saw lots of end to end action with Newmar- ket dominating the play for the most part. But Port, with great determination, turned the game around when the star's Shane Norton broke a scoreless tie in the second. Helpers were Ashley VanSchelven and Matt Phillips. Port upped the lead to 2-0in the third as Ryan Puckrin snared the rebound. Newmarket pulled their goal- ie in favor of an extra attacker only to be denied as they ran out of time. We would like to welcome Ja- mie Strickert back to our team after suffering from an injury during a tournament. Team work and dedication is a combination hard to beat. Congratulations and good luck in the Ontario finals. Congratulations to the coach- ing staff: Dave Jamieson (coach), Duncan Ferguson (as- sistant coach), Frank Baxter (manager) and Dave Bentley (trainer). f § }