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Lys 16- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 7, 1995 " Scugog 's Community Newspaper of Choice" . PORTS MoJacks ont by David Stell The wmanville Eagles have now won seven games in a row in this year's playoffs. The Uxbridge Bruins couldn't steal a single game from the Eagles when they were swept out of the way in the first round. Now the Port Perry ModJacks are on the verge of being swept, with a 5-2 loss Sunday night in Bowman- ville. Down three games to nothing in the series, Port Perry now faces the tough task of beating Bowmanville four games straight in order to win the "league championship. With the Eagles playing incredible hock- ey right now the MoJacks' sea- son is in danger of ending to- morrow when game four of the series takes place here in Port Perry. ModJacks' coach Brad Menzies will now have to keep the team optimistic and forget about some questionable refer- eeing Sunday as he gets the team ready for game four. "It was a lot better effort to- night," he said. "We'll practice Tuesday and try to get back into it Wednesday night." It will be a challenge to fight back against a team like the Ea- gles, but Menzies will have to rely on the team to rebound and come out fighting tomorrow. "If we don't win the next one, . obviously we're done," he said. "So, hopefully, we get a good ef- fort. Its pretty tough to be down three games, but you've got to take it one game at a time and if you win one then you can go for two." Game three started off a lot like game one, with Bowman- ville jumping out toa 2-0 lead in the first period. The Eagles have been putting the pressure on in front of ModJacks' goal- tender Rick Hutchinson all se- ries. Well-timed passes and ac- curate shots have added up to a nightmare for Port Perry. Even with Hutchinson making high- light saves, the Eagles were giv- en too many chances in close on Port Perry's net for the early lead in the game. But the Mo- Jacks capitalized on their best chance of the period when Mike Pigeau found the back of the net with 5:30 left. Trevor Bremner and Steve Laird went into the corner to dig out the puck and fed it out to Pi- geau racing towards the front of the net. His slapshot beat Ea- gles' goalie Barry Crawford to make it 2-1 going into the sec- ond period. After a tough 6-0 loss on Friday, Port Perry was finally back on the scoreboard and the hard work carried over into the second period. The Eagles would score first in the second period to take a two-goal lead again at 3-1, but ModJacks' centre Keith Leslie wouldn't let the Eagles get away just yet. His powerplay - goal, assisted by Pigeau, got the - MoJacks within one of Bow- manville with Kevin Vivian running interference in front of Crawford when the shot found the net. Again Port Perry would go into the intermission only trailing by a goal at 3-2, but the third period was all Bowman- ville. . The Eagles frustrated the MoJacks time and again by keeping Port Perry away from Crawford and any quality chances to score. Then Bow- manville turned around and scored two more goals midway through the period to push the lead to three goals in the game and take a stranglehold on the 'series at three games to noth- ing. : : Port Perry captain, Gavin Co- chrane, finally had enough of the refereeing late in the game after Bowmanville scored their fifth goal. The goal looked to have been tipped in by a high stick and Cochrane let the refer- ee know it. The captain went af- ter the referee to plead his case, but was denied. After more shouting, Cochrane was given a game misconduct and was forced to leave the game. He was discouraged with the loss, but he thought the team played well. "If we could have gotten a couple of bounces our way, it could have been a totally differ- ent game," he said. "They've got really fast forwards and they're tough to contain. If we play a lit- tle aggressive on them we can SPORTS REPORTS will continue in The Weekend Star=-- easily slow them down to our pace." Cochrane was on the wrong end of a big hit in the series opener last Tuesday, but it doesn't appear to have slowed him down. "I was pretty sore that night, but I had a few he verge of elim stitches and it doesn't bother me anymore," Cochrane said. The MoJacks might look out of it right now, but with their backs to the wall Wednesday's game could turn into a classic. Port Perry has shown that they can play at the Eagles' level in all of their regular season ames so game four on the Mo- 5 acks' home ice could have a dif- ferent ending than the first three. Look for the MoJacks to fight back and get back into the series tomorrow. . The Pearce Auction Major Novice finished up their round robin series by losing their last three playoff games. The forwards for the three games, Pat Lewis, Kevin Robins and Justin Shinn; Jordan Froats, Teddy Howarth and Alex Nicolau; Chet Martin, Lu- cas Fraser and Tyler Weisflock, made some good offensive plays. The defence, Joey Lane, Justin Koury, Ryan Hnatko and Gordon Smith had some strong checking to do against these fast-moving teams. : On Tuesday, the Auctioneers Pearce Auction Novice wrap up round robin travelled to Cobourg where . they lost by a score of 5-3. Kevin Robins scored Port Perry's first goal on a nice pass from Justin Shinn and their third with the assist going to Ryan Hnatko. Pat Lewis scored the second goal, assisted by Kevin Robins and Justin Koury. On Friday night, the Auction- eers hosted Lindsay. The fast- moving, strong checking Lind- say team won by a score of 5-2. Port Perry's goals were scored by Pat Lewis and Jordan Froats with assists going to Justin Shinn, Teddy Howarth and Jus- tin Koury. The last game was played in Belleville against the undefeat- ed Belleville team. Although the Port Perry boys tried hard, there wasn't a lot they could do against the much more experi- enced team. The Auctioneers only goal was scored by Justin Shinn. Kurtis Wagar and Scott Honey, sharing the goaltending duties, had many shots against them in the three games and both made several great saves. 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Since all points, and plus-minus along with penalty minutes, carry over to the final four game round prior to "playoff weekend," all teams were fired up to improve their records in each category! ~ Sharks vsDevils Game one saw the Van World Sharks devour the Pizza Delight Devils Yo the tune of 3-1. The Devils were less than in top form for this one, but give full credit to the Sharks who came out flying to take the victory in the "early morning feature!" The Devils took a first period lead on a goal by Brian Stevenson from Bob Beveridge and John Mackay, but that was it as the Sharks caught fire to score three unanswered replies. Phil Cochrane led the way with two goals and an assist. Scott Davis had the winner plus an assigf; with Steve Connors, Wayne Fox and somehow, Richard Huggins, all adding single helpers for the Sharks. Record to date Devils, fourth place, Sharks 7th place. Blazers vs Aces Game two proved to be a one-sided affair as the Harrison Blazers exploded with a five goal performance to down the Taylor Aces 5-0 in yet another season "Fuel War!" The "season champs" have come to life since their playoff loss to the Devils, and gave the Aces more than they could handle in this game! Goaltender Ken Harman notched the shut- out, while brother John Harman led the scorers with a "hat trick" and an assist. Darcy Milligan was also flying as he got his four points on a goal and three assists! Dave Milton added the other goal along with an assist. Single helpers went to Richard Sakanashi, Jim Park, Larry Jackson, and naturally Jim . Beatty, as the Blazers took their third victory of the playoffs. Record to date, Blazers second place; Aces eighth place. Chargers vs Phantoms Game three was yet another playoff classic as the Monsma Chargers humbled the Pine- ridge Phantoms 6-2. Both teams have been bat- tling all season long in an effort to catch the Blazers, so this game proved to be an excellent playoff matchup. As luck would have it, due to the playoff cross-over, these two teams go head- to-head again next week! Jason Warner with the "hat trick" and Bill Bridge with a pair of goals and a pair of assists led the Chargers to the victory. Big Jack Mon- sma, the team sponsor, added the single coun- ter. Assists saw Tony Oxley with three and sin- gles to Monsma, Lee Wilbur, Duane Bronson, Bob Lee, Brad Hurst and Paul Van Camp in this Charger victory. : Phantom replies saw Brian Samis score from Colin Asselstine and Bill Van Camp, along with Steve Fox netting one from Sean Fewer and Fred Moffatt. : Record to date, Chargers third place; Phan- toms sixth place. Clippers vs Hawks Game four was the game of the day as the Fitzgerald Clippers took to the ice against the J&D Hawks. Both teams have been playing well in the playoffs and this game featured super ac- tion as the Clippers skated to an important 3-2 victory! The teams traded goals back and forth throughout the game, but with an early goal in the final frame, the Clippers crew sealed the vic- tory and the unbeaten record! Fitzgerald counters saw Larry Pilkey, Tom Patton and Doug Bronson find the twine. As- sists went to Patton, Bronson and goaltender Bill Eade. For the Hawks it was Peter Lane and Ritchie LeFort with the tallies. Co-sponsors Dennis Ly- cett and Joe Curran both hit the scoresheet with an assist each. Record to date, Clippers first place; Hawks fifth place. Comets vs Gamblers Game five drew interest from the "window faithfuls" as the Compton Comets battled with the Crandell's Gamblers for First-Round Brag- ging Rights! Both teams took to the ice lookin for their first playoff points, and when the fina buzzer sounded after an hour of intense hockey, it was the Comets 6 - Gamblers 3! Dave Dickson led the Comets to their first two points with 'a "hat trick" and a single assist. Mike McQuade also had a strong two goal and one assist performance. Jeff Johnstone and Paul Goreski had two assists each, while single help- ers went to Bill Weisflock, Ken Davison, Roger Moase and Terry Fleiler. Gambler replies saw goals by Bryan Norton, Carl Durham icked up a pair of assists, while singles went to J ham, Mark Jobb, Glen McCoy and Bob Part- ington. | Well, everything is set for the race to the championship game positions, as next Sunday begins the final four games for round robin ac- tion! Be sure to cheer on your favorites at the fol- lowing times. 6:45 a.m. - Taylor Aces vs Compton Comets 7:45 a.m. - Pineridge Phantoms vs Monsma Chargers 8:45 a.m. - Fitzgerald Clippers vs Van World Sharks 9:46 a.m. - J&D Hawks vs Harrison Blazers 10:46 a.m. - Pizza Delight vs Crandell's Gam- blers. and Steve Groves. Mark Decosta |. ination play