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---- ET S-- - ------ EE Tr TE aT TTT Te "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" SUT VFS I Ne) your truck caps and lids ~ Van & Truck World.» [i "Canada's Premier Accessory Centres" SYA) Simcoe St., N. 579-6868 www.vanandtruckworld.com Pickenng Location 1051 Brock Rd., S. 426-5509 SHL report Pineridge Sports climbs out of the basement with their 5-4 win Cedar Creek Contracting 2 Van & Truck World 2 This game between Cedar Creek Contracting and Van & Truck World featured all of the offense in the opening period with the end result a 2-2 draw. Dave Dickson opened the scoring from Mike Geer and Brad Menzies and it was Rick Sheehey extending the lead with the help of Dave Dickson and Brad Menzies. Richard Sakanashi responded as the help of John Harman and Greg Fitzgerald allowed him to put Cedar Creek within reach. The equalizer was courtesy of Greg Fitzgerald assisted by Derek Fitzgerald. From this point on, both goalies would shut the door and both teams earned one point. Pineridge Sports 5 Taylor Fuels 4 Emerging from the basement after this contest was the victorious Pineridge Sports team as their 5-4 win over Taylor Fuels may give them the much needed momentum to continue their long climb up the SHL standings. Two goals and two assists from the stick of Larry Pilkey were key in this win as his four point showing led Pineridge in this game. But opening the scoring was Taylor Fuels and it was Brian Samis from Brian Till. Two goals from Pineridge gave them the lead however as the ) 20) A 2 HAST VN Turn to Page 23 ed Brent Henry scores three Atom Predators storm back to defeat Uxbridge A lone goal in the first period by Travis Mason gave the Atom Select Predators the lead at the start of the second period. Port Perry's Scott St. Cyr scored early in the second for a two goal lead. Uxbridge answered back with three goals to end the second period. Uxbridge scored early in the third, but Predators Brent Henry scored to make it 4-3. With three minutes remaining Uxbridge scored. With only 1:36 left the Predators scored four goals in 38 seconds, by Daren Dekoning, Scott St. Cyr, his second of the game and Brent Henry popping the final two to complete Brent's hat trick for a brilliant come- back. LOADS OF LOOT: There will be plenty of great stuff given away as door prizes when a charity hockey game to raise funds for the skateboard park in Port Perry is held tomorrow night. In the foreground, Oshawa Generals players Neil Posillico and Mike Rusenstrom show off Gens' and Maple Leafs' tick- ets. Also up for grabs will be a Port Perry Predators' jersey and an auto safety kit. Gens' players will be on hand at 7 p.m. to sign autographs. In background are Steve McCauley of sponsor KX 96, and Rob Privett and Mike Giannini of the skateboard park "committee. You can get tickets at the Scugog Arena tomorrow night. Dismal powerplay comes up empty vs North Frontenac in a 5-2 loss Saturday By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The Port Perry MoJacks saw their modest three game winning streak come to a crashing halt Saturday night at the Scugog Arena, as they were clipped 5-2 by the North Frontenac Flyers. And head coach Tom Thornbury was fuming over the way his team went down to defeat. In a word it was ugly, as the MoJacks just didn't put out much effort at either end of the rink, perhaps taking the Flyers far too lightly as the visitors had posted just one win before their appear- ance at the Scugog Arena. We will never know what the head coach had to say to the players immedi- ately following the loss because the door to the dressing room was locked. In any sport, that usually means the coach is blistering the paint with vocab- ulary that might not be appropriate for tender ears. When the door was un-locked and two media guys finally ventured into the room, Thornbury quipped: "I'll answer three questions from each of you, then I'm outta here." He had a bit of a smile on his face when he said it, but one could tell from the fire in his eyes that he was not a happy man. Thornbury, to his credit, is always patient and accommodating in his post- game chats with the media, win or lose. But not Saturday. In fact, after a couple of questions he turned the interviews over to assistants Sam Thornbury and Scott Pinkerton. One glaring short-coming for the MoJacks against the Flyers was the lack of production on the power play, especially late in the game, when Flyers took a five-minute major and were two men short on a couple of occasions for varying lengths of time. Asked what happened to the power play that night, he summed it up in three terse words: "it went south." He added equally as tersely, "we were just never in this right from the start." Sam Thornbury went on to say that the power play situation "will be addressed in practice (Tuesday night) this week." One got the feeling the lack of effort will also be addressed by the coaching staff -- which usually means some extra skating -- just to get the players' attention. "We had been on a pretty good roll and (it) would have been nice to keep it 3 going. It just was not a good effort tonight," said Sam. "There was no support for Ryan (Fraser, who started the game in the cage and was pulled in the third period after four goals). It was a waste of (his) quality start," he added. The teams traded goals in the first period with Dale Drummond doing the damage for the MoJacks. But it was pretty well the Flyers show from that point on, starting in the first minute of the second frame when they went up 2- 1 and never looked back. They added another mid-way through the period for a 3-1 lead, this one off a two-on-one break as Fraser made the initial stop but a big rebound was gobbled up by one of the attackers who had no trouble burying it deep in the twine. Perhaps the turning point in the match came early in the third as the MoJacks started with a two-man advan- tage for 35 seconds and were one man up for 1:35. Despite some pretty good pressure deep in the Flyer zone, the MoJacks were not able to get the puck behind netminder Sean Brophy. Shots from the point were especially erratic in this ModJacks suffer power outage against Flyers manpower advantage, as they were much of the game. No sooner had the Flyers killed the penalties when they scored to really put the ModJacks in a deep hole, down 4-1. Matt Lowe took the puck across the ModJack line, put a clever move on a defender to get into the clear and then beat Fraser with a low shot to the corner. With just over five minutes still to play, the ModJacks briefly fluttered to life as. Derek Tindall clicked on a power play with help from Shane Norton to cut the margin to 4-2. There were still nearly three minutes left in a Flyer five-minute major penalty, but the MoJacks were not able to move any closer on the score-board. With Jeff Mackie out of the cage in the final minute, the Flyers made it 5-2 with an empty-netter with just a couple of sec- onds remaining in the game. Midway through the third there was a pretty good punch-up between MoJack captain Jeff Clarke and Flyer forward Sean Neglia with both guys hammering away until Clarke punched and wrestled Neglia to the ice and the officials moved in to separate the combatants. Turn to Page 23