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"A Family Tradition for 132 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 1, 1998 - 21 Sr PORT PERRY STAR ORTS Port drops 4-2 decision to visiting Merchants Victory slips by MoJacks as miscues, lapses lead to loss By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star For the second week in a row the Port Perry MoJacks watched a home ice vic- tory slip through their fingers. And this time they came away totally emtpy-handed, after the Little Britain Merchants doubled them 4-2 in Junior C action Sunday night at the Scugog Arena. Exactly one week earlier, the MoJacks at least got a point skating the Lakefield Chiefs to 6-6 deadlock. The victory by the Merchants vaulted them ahead of the ModJacks in the Central League standings. The Merchants now have 16 points, good enough for fourth place and one point ahead of the MoJacks in the scramble for that fourth and final playoff spot. This was a game the ModJacks quite easily could have won. Aside from a few lapses and a disorganized power-play late in the game, the ModJacks played well enough for a tie, possibly a win. They had their share of chances in this wide open, free skating game, espe- cially in the second frame when they definitely enjoyed a territorial edge in the play that resulted in several quality opportunities to put the biscuit in the basket. Unlike the 10-3 ModJack win in Britain Nov. 7 which featured all kinds of nasty stuff, the teams stuck strictly to hockey with only a handful of minor penalties and one low-key scrap. As it was, the ModJacks opened the scoring in this one, late in the first period on a nicely executed power play. Adam Metheral and Adam Bonneveld set Greg Blackburn up for the goal. He took a pass just inside the blue line, moved to his left towards the centre of the ice and scored on that impressive point shot he owns -- low, hard and accu- rate. The Merchants tied things midway through the second on a power play of their own with Robert Hanna beating Jeff Mackie on a shot from the face-off circle. Less than two minutes later, the Merchants' captain Chad Purdy was left unguarded in front of Mackie and he slapped in a rebound off the back-boards to make it 2-1. The MoJacks did plenty of buzzing around Merchant netminder Jeff Smithers but came away empty on sev- eral decent chances. Keith Blohm grazed the goal post as he went in alone on a breakaway, and Dale Drummond -- a hard luck guy around the net so far this year -- missed on a point-blank shot after being set up by Mike Strutt. Drummond then missed from the slot a dozen seconds later. He's a clever scorer and must be wondering when those pucks are going to start hit- ting the back of the net. The ModJdacks jumped back into a 2-2 tie at 7:09 of the third when Keith Blohm engineered a nice set up to Brent Pinch in the slot in front of the Merchant net. Blackburn drew the other assist to give him two points for the evening. But from then on in, it was the Merchants who seemed to take control of the game, showing no ill effects from their game 24 hours earlier on home ice against Georgina which ended 7-3 in their favour. The ModJacks had not had a game for seven days and yet they seemed to run out of steam later in the contest. The Merchants salted things away mid-way through the period with a pair of goals in under a minute. Brian Logan took full advantage of ModJack miscues when a puck came off the back-boards, went through the skates of a MoJack defender and ended up in Mackie's crease where Logan slapped it home before anyone could get it out of harm's way. Just 44 seconds later, Chris Cross made it 4-2 on a power play. He went upstairs on Mackie from about a dozen Turn to Page 23 John Harman leads the way in win over Pineridge Sports Harman scores four to lead Cedar Creek to 7-4 victory Prince Albert's Angela Connolly capped off an amazing year of strenuous training and exercising by competing at the New York Marathon. No pain, no gain An effort to lose weight after the birth of her third child led Angela Connolly to training, and the New York City Marathon By Jon Sanders Special to The Star Cedar Creek Contracting 7 Pineridge Sports 4 In game one of Sunday's SHL action, it was Cedar Creek Contracting who was vic- torious over Pineridge Sports in a high scoring affair as they picked up the 7-4 win. John Harman was big in this game finding the back of the net four times. His first opened up the scoring with assists going to Jerry Hall and Colin Asselstine. Pineridge Sports answered back in a big way however as they put three behind the Cedar Creek goalie to go up 3-1. Goalscorers were Todd Smart from Rick Sheehey, Danny Taylor assisted by Carl Durward, and Danny Taylor again with his sec- ond of the period from Todd Smart. Down by two goals, John Harman col- lected his second of the game after taking nice passes from Duane Empringham and Karl Durham. Following this goal, Derek Fitzgerald netted a pair of goals to give Cedar Creek a one goal lead. His first was set up by Jerry Hall and Colin Asselstine, while he had help on help on his second from Bob Collins and Duane Empringham to end a busy opening peri- od. In the second frame Pineridge Sports tied this contest at four when Ken Smart came through assisted by Dave Burnett and Tony Oxley. After this goal it was all Cedar Creek as they took control of the game in the third period scoring three times includ- ing two more off of the stick of John Harman. Assisting on his third goal of the game was Mike Gilmour and Bob Collins. His fourth of the game was set up by Derek Fitzgerald and Mike Gilmour. Also completing Turn to Page 22 By Chris Hall Port Perry Star After almost a year of intense work and training, Angela Connolly believes she has set an example for her children. In an effort to shed some weight after the birth of her third child, the Prince Albert resident began a strict diet and workout regiment last January, and, 10 months later, seems satisfied with the results. "I was really heavy -- about 205- pounds -- after my third child and I was just uncomfortable and unfamiliar with my size," she recalled recently. "So, in January, I thought I'd kickstart my way into losing weight by beginning to powerwalk and that was all right, but a friend of mine from New York told me about the Marathon there and it got me thinking... "I never really considered it, but at the same time I thought "wow" and that it would be wild to do. I could picture all those people there but I'm not really athletic; I played volleyball and went to aerobics, but that was about it." It was at that point though, when she decided to begin training for the New York Marathon, the ultimate goal in her weight loss attempt. "Other people walk and run the Marathon, but I thought I'd powerwalk it. But, I got good at that so I started doing small jogs... during the first minute of my first jog I was out of breath. I thought if I could do 10 minutes after three months I'd be excited." However, each day got easier, she said, and pretty soon her body began to respond to its daily workout. "Once I really began to train my body it started to respond and that really sur- prised me; I was shocked at what it gave back to me," she said, noting that the Turn to Page 22