The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 9, 1996 -17 oi ModJdacks defeat front-runners 3-2 By Wally Donaldson Special to the Star Another four-star per- formance like Paul Rob- erts gave in goal Sunday night and his Port Perry ModJacks mates will be re- ferring to him as "The General." Despite an obvious mis- match in shots, the Mo- Jacks escaped with a 3-2 verdict over the 'front- running Uxbridge Bruins at Scugog Arena - an out- come coach Chic Carnegie will gladly accept. Roberts, executing quickness and agility be- tween the pipes, was clear- ly the busier puckstopper as the Bruins outshot Mo- Jacks 42-17, including a 17-3 difference in the third period. Barry Crawford also played well in goal for the Bruins when challenged, but succumbed to the low shots, including the even- tual game winner by Jere- my Geer with his fourth of the campaign early in the final stanza. Keith Leslie - the Cen- tral Ontario Junior C Hockey League's leading pointman - and Derek An- derson had the other Port Perry tallies. Jim Boyd and John Liri- ano replied for the Bruins. Bruins sport a six-point lead over Modacks for top spot although these two teams will meet three more times before the reg- ular schedule draws to a close. Noteworthy is the fact MoJacks play seven of their final 11 games on home ice. Meanwhile, the bulk of Uxbridge's remain- ing games are on the road. The advantage doesn't faze Carnegie. "I don't think there is any advantage as far as who you play," Carnegie - notes league parity. "It's not going to matter other than getting the extra home game. That's nice. But all teams up there are tough. "Even though Uxbridge is in first place, we play - them as well as any other team. The only game we played badly was the 5-1 loss in Uxbridge. That's it." Leslie's powerplay goal early in the first period set the wheels in motion for Port Perry which, in a rather bizarre call by the official, lost the services of Corey Bricknell a short time later following a spir- ited pugilistic bout be- tween Modacks' Gavin Co- chrane and Bruins' Loughery Graham. Bricknell, who deserved a slap on the hand for a score of H-4. 9:15 p.m. start time. Islander action The Port Perry Canadian Tire Midget B Islanders played a pair of home games last week on Jan. 3 and 4 losing both games in which there were a total of 150 minutes in minor penalties given out. Some of the penalties were warranted but most were of the ques- tionable type. Maybe the refs got new whistles for Christmas and just liked to hear them. The Islanders first game of the week was against Manvers who skated to a 5-2 win. The game was close in the first period as after one it was a 3-2 game in Manvers favor. Doing the scoring for the Islanders were Matt Phillips and Dave Kamminga with assists going to Noah Dorland, Matt Phillips and Adam Smith with two. Manvers rounded out the scoring picking up a goal in each of the last two periods. Brian Bickmore was in net for this game and played well de- spite the score. The Islander defense need to start taking the man more in their own end and not make it such an easy trip to the net for opposing players. The Islanders second game in as many nights was against Minden which the Isles lost by a 5-4 count. The game started out kind of rough for the Isles as they fell behind by three after the first period. But the second period had the Islanders mount a comeback as first Matt Phillips scored from Dave Kamminga and Adam Smith and then Scott Heffern from Ashley Van Shelvan and Aaron Levy made it a 3-2 game. The third period had Ryan Puckrin fire one in unas- sisted to tie the game up and then Ashley Van Shel- van from Mike Morden put the Islanders ahead for the first time by a 4-3 count. The Islanders just couldn't hold the lead however as the penalty happy refs made'sure the Islanders were short handed and Minden made it pay off as they fired in two goals of their own late in the game to take the win by the final The Islanders season is quickly winding down as they have only one league game left at home and that being Wednesday, Jan. 10 against Lindsay with a roughing call, was also cit- ed as the third man into the fight. If a video tape re- play was made available, 1t would reveal Ryan Ridg- way's exuberance into the melee, not Bricknell. Anyhow, Bricknell is lost to the club for two games as a result of the questionable call. Bruins got the goal back with just 13 seconds left in the first with Liriano con- necting from the top of the crease. Actually, the goal was an indicator of how the Bruins seemed to domi- nate the slot area, forcing Roberts to showcase a quick glove hand and flexi- bility from post to post. Roberts didn't seem to mind his busy activity. "Not at all," beamed the 20-year-old Oshawa na- tive. "I like to be kept busy. It doesn't matter who we play. I don't underesti- mate any team." The obvious working re- lationship Roberts has constructed with his goal- ie partner, Rick Hutchin- son, is beginning to pay off as he observes, "We take our pointers from each Free Throw All boys and girls ages 10-14 from local schools have been invited to par- ticipate in the local level of competition for the 1996 Knights of Columbus In- ternational Free Throw Competition. The local competition will be held on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Immaculate Conception School Gym. The Free Throw Compe- tition is sponsored annual- ly by the Knights of Co- lumbus with winners progressing through local, district, and regional com- petition. International champions are announced by the Knights of Colum- bus International Head- quarters based on scores from Provincial/State competitions. All boys and girls 10-14 years old are el- igible to participate and will compete in respective age divisions. All contest- ants on the local level are recognized for their partic- ipation in this event. Thé Knights of Colum- bus is an International Catholic, family, frater- nal, service organization with over 1.5 million mem- bers in more than 10,000 local councils. SEE MORE SPORTS REPORTS LRUCRYVCELCLHE RIEL other. For instance, I'm trying to stand up more, keep my position. No doubt, (Hutchinson) is a big part of what I'm do- ing." The two clubs traded goals in the second period, although the Bruins domi- nated the shots 15-8. Iron- "ically, the best stop of the period was made by Rob- erts' adversary. Crawford, showing quickness with his stick, poked the puck away from Mike Pigeau during a pen- alty shot. Pigeau, alate ar- rival to the game due to a work commitment, went for the deke and couldn't get the puck to his back- hand side. Boyd gave the Bruins a lead before Anderson counted for the Modacks less than two minutes lat- er. Following Geer's goal, Roberts simply pulled the plug on Bruins who con- tinuously tried draining the puck for the equalizer. A slashing penalty to Port Perry's Al Hurlburt with less than five minutes left made it interesting. Even with the goalie pulled, Uxbridge was un- able to capitalize as the Modacks defensive crew came to the fore by throw- ing the puck outside the blue line. If there was one piece of evidence ModJacks needed as a future reference, it was their inability to work the puck confidently to create better scoring op- portunities. Bruins were sharper of- fensively than the Mo- Jacks as the shots would indicate. Fortunately for Port Perry, this wasn't the start of a playoff series. There is work still to be done. WALLY WORLD - The ModJacks head on the road with games in Little Brit- ain Wednesday and Ux- bridge Friday. They enter- tain Lakefield Chiefs Saturday night (7:30 p.m.) before competing in Sut- ton Sunday afternoon 'against Georgina Ice. Ken- ton LeFort served his first of a two-game suspension. Typifying the numbing cold temperatures was Chic Carnegie's offering, "There was frost on the (arena) walls. A long time since I'd seen something like that." Re/Max wins championship The Sunderland Novice Tournament on Dec. 29 will be much remembered by the players, coaches, and parents of the Re/Max team as they emerged champi- ons. Congratulations team. The day started off with a game against the Oshawa Holiday Inn Black- hawks. The team certainly got off to a slow start, and never really found their legs, losing 5-2. One thing was for sure, we really were not skating, we lacked hustle, we didn't play as a team. The coaching staff chalked this one up as pre-tournament excitement. Scoring in this game were Norman Rooney assisted by Ian Page and Josh McCabe; and David Stewart assisted by Brent Meeking and Haydon Fish. Tre- vor Algar made some fine saves to keep this game close. The second game in the tournament was much different, it was like looking at a different team, what a difference a few hours can mean. Our opponents were the host team, Sunderland. Re/Max got off to a quick start scoring their first 11 seconds into the game, Stewart assisted by Meeking and Kyle Bowers. Five seconds later, the score was 2-0 on David's second goal of the game, unassisted. Not even a minute later, it was 3-0, on a goal from Meeking assisted by Stewart and Andrew Ad- ams. At this point we made our first line change of the game. (Every coaches dream, to get that early lead). The team continued to take the play to the host team with strong skating and fore- checking from Graham Hofstetter, McCabe, Page and Norman Rooney. To complete the first, Re/Max scored two more, James Hobbs scored a beauty, as- sisted by Kirk Stephens; and Stewart scored his third with assists to Adams and Meeking. What a period, 5-0. The second period was certainly dif- ferent as the team started to lay back and not take the play to Sunderland. Our team seemed to feel over-confident and Sunderland started to chip away at the lead scoring 32 seconds in the sec- ond. Sunderland continued to pressure Re/Max as goaltending and defense started to be the key to our success. Al- | gar was simply brilliant in the net, com- ing off an injury in the first game, Tre- vor remained focused and time and again made some great saves. Our de- fense played well in the third even though Sunderland scored two to close the gap to 5-3. Standouts defensively were Tyler Leach, Darren Tapper, Tim- othy Gibson, Ceri Boomsma, and Stew- art Medford. The final score was 5-3 and the team was on their way to the Championship. The Championship Game was going to be a good one as two Port teams made it to the final, Re/Max vs. Haugens. ~ Without .a doubt, this was our best game of the year. There was strong of- fense, solid defense, and excellent goal- tending. Our team put it together, they played their positions, had a good work ethic, and most of all played as a team. The game could have gone either way. Stewart got Re/max on the score- board, two minutes in, with assists from Meeking, and Adams. This lead held up till late in the third when Ad- ams scored a timely goal, his first of the season, with 1:53 left in the game, as- sists going to Meeking and Stewart. Fi- nal score was 2-0. Re/Max won the title. Offensively and defensively both teams were going well, strong skating, strong forechecking led by James Hobbs, Kirk Stephens, Ian Page, Gra- 'ham Hofstetter, Norman Rooney and Josh McCabe for the Re/Max team; and Corey Hellingman, Chris Boomhour, David Briley, Owen Penstone, Mitc Sauder and Scott Martin for the Hau- gen's team. Defensively, goaltending was extremely solid by both netmind- ers, Trevor Algar for Re/Max, posting the shutout, and Michael Jehu for Hau- gens. Other defensive standouts were Kyle Bowers, Ceri Boomsma, Haydon Fish protecting the shutout for Re/Max; and Scott Stone, Trevor Doe, Robert Mark, Brett Foster, and Alex Herold for Haugens. Final notes, congratulations to David Stewart for being selected the for Re/Max and Mitch Sauder who was se- lected MVP for Haugens. Congratula- tions to the Re/Max coaching staff; Dave Stewart, Ken Hobbs, and Dan McCabe; trainer Don Adams; and team managers, Russ and Pat Stephens for a job well done. Thanks also to our spon- sor, Re/Max. mo