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"A Family Tradition for 133 Years" Spr PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 2, 1999 - 21 ORTS SHL report .Joe's Pizzeria opens up '99 playoffs with a 6-4 victory over Cedar Creek By Dean Van Camp Special to The Star Joe's Pizzeria 6 Cedar Creek Contracting 4 This year's 1999 SHL playoffs opened with a high scoring affair between two of the top teams in the league. John Harman scored two goals and Karl Durham had one as Cedar Creek jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. However, Joe's responded with four goals of their own from Bill Weisflock (two), Carl Fitzgerald and Brad Hollingsworth to take the lead. Cedar Creek tied the game up on an unassisted Dave Milton goal, but that would be as close as they came as Joe's scored two more unanswered goals to seal the game from Dave Dickson and Bill Weisflock. Monsma Electric 2 Harrison Fuels 1 The second game of the morning featured a defen- " CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR skate on their mind, a few youngsters had other ideas as the two sides agreed to split the ice surface and a game of pick-up began Sunday afternoon. SHINNY: Glorious weather over the past weekend saw Lake Scugog bustling with activity as skating enthusiasts got out on the shore line, cleared away a patch of ice and strapped on the blades. While a number of people had a nice, leisurely sive battle which ended up with Monsma on top 2-1. Jamie Menzies scored the first and only goal for Harrison with an assist to Steve Laird. Jeff Card scored the equalizer for Monsma at the start of the 'first with a helper from Mike McGuinness. Rick Campbell scored the winning goal for Monsma with assists from Jack Monsma and Brad Meekin. Taylor Fuels 1 Compton Communications 0 This game also featured a tight defensive battle as Taylor Fuels won their first playoff game with a shutout, 1-0. Dean Smith was the goalscorer for Taylor with an assist awarded to Willie Edwards. Both Bill Eade and Larry Fairman played well between the pipes. Van & Truck World 4 Goreski Roofing 3 It was Goreski that got the early start in this game by scoring two quick goals from Rob Scott and Paul Goreski. Goreski's lead was soon vanished with Van & Truck World scoring three goals from Dave Buxcey, Jay Adam and Brad Coppin. Goreski tied the game up with a Jason Warner goal, but the tie would not stand. Steve Stiles scored the game winning goal for Van & Truck World to lead them past Goreski 4-3. K.C.1. Gas Bar 2 Pineridge Sports 5 Trevor Till and Brian Pomeroy got things going for K.C.I. as they jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but the lead was not to last. Pineridge Sports followed up the two goals with five unanswered goals of their own lead by Dave Burnett with a hat trick. Danny Taylor scored the other two goals for Pineridge. Ball/Callery & Associates 3 Taylor/Ford Mercury 3 Bill Bridge scored the opening goal for Taylors with an assist going to Gary Lance. Ball/Callery scored three goals of their own from Steve Connors (two) and Paul Stanley. The lone assist went to Ken Davison. Taylor rounded out the scoring with two goals to leave the game in a tie from Brian Stevenson and Clarence Stephenson. Assists went to Gary Lance, Mark Decosta and Darryl Workman. Port Angels to hold ball clinic at Seneca The Port Perry Angels will be hosting their Annual "Early Bird" win- ter fastball clinics at the Seneca College Sports Complex on Feb. 6, Feb. 20 and March 6. There is no charge for these clinics, and they are Turn to Page 22 Game over for Port Perry Two more losses put an end to the MoJacks' 1998-99 Jr. C season By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The hockey season is slowly and quietly coming to the end for the Port Perry ModJacks. And this year there is no chance for an 11th hour miracle or edge-of- the-seat heroics. The green and white lost all hope of a playoff berth last Wednesday night when they were mathemati- cally eliminated by the Little Britain Merchants. p Last season at this time, the ModJacks were up to their necks in a battle with the Georgina Ice for the final playoff berth and thanks to a pair of thrilling wins over the Ice on the final weekend of the sea- son they were able to sneak past Georgina by mere percentage points. But it's not to be this season as the ModJacks were nipped 5-4 by the Merchants to end any hopes. Then Sunday night at the Scugog Arena, they took it on the chin 5-0 to the Uxbridge Bruins, a team locked in battle for first place with Lakefield: The loss to Uxbridge wraps up a truly horrendous January for the MoJacks in which they could man- age just two wins and eight losses. They earned another point for an overtime loss to Lakefield to give them five points out of a possible 20 during the month. And December was not much better as they lost six of ten games, Their four wins that month came in a row the week before Christmas, and during that stretch the MoJacks really looked like they had turned the corner and would be in for a strong finish to the season. It was not to be, however as they lost 11 of their next 13 games. To their credit, the ModJacks refused to give up hope for that playoff spot even when they had nothing more than a mathematical chance. They turned in a spirited effort against the Merchants, despite coming out on the short end of the 5-4 score. In fact, head coach Tom Thornbury said afterwards it was a game in which the team showed him something. "Everybody came to work that night. During the season it was sometimes in the back of my mind that I wondered about this team. But that game they proved to me that we are able to compete," he said. "Despite the 5-4 loss we were in it for the entire game," he added, though still very disappointed that the club failed to make the post- season competition. Adam Jones netted a pair for the Modacks that night with singles to Adam Bonneveld and Shane Patrick. Patrick, who joined the club three weeks ago from the Bobcaygeon Bullets, was snake-bitten against the Merchants. "He could have won the game for us on one shift," said coach" Thornbury, as Patrick hit a goal post, a cross bar and bounced one off the goalie's mask. And the coach Turn to Page 22 Peewee Lions pick up win, tie The Lions Club house league hockey team picked up three points in their last two outings, with a win and a tie. Last week they just edged out Shoppers Drug Mart by "a score of 4-3. Colin Holditch opened the scor- ing in the first period, assisted by Luke Fraser and Peter Dutka. The Lions went up by two when Luke scored, with help from Brett Whyte and Colin. Shoppers came from a deficit of two, to go ahead by one with goals scored by Craig Kehoe from Peter Jones, Alex McKay assisted by Craig and Peter, and then Craig from Peter again. It did not look good for the Lions as they were down by one goal with less than three minutes to go, thanks to some stellar saves by substitute goalie, Darryl Copithorn. Then Colin Holditch came up with a great effort to score two goals at 2:27 and 1:56, with assists by Brett Whyte and David Dekoning, to pull a win out of the fire. The next game was a 3-3 draw against Browmans. Browman's first goal was by Cassidy Webber, Turn to Page 22