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20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. January 22, 1985 Sports Playoff opponent might be the Merchants Two wins lift MoJacks to third spot by John B. McClelland The Port Perry Mo- Jacks did what they set out to do on last weekend of regular play in the Central Junior schedule. The MoJacks swept a pair of games from Little Britain and Lind- say, and vaulted over those clubs into third with 29 points, one up on the Merchants and two ahead of the Muskies. Mo Jack goalie Ken Harman intently keeps an eye on the action as players battle for the puck during Junior C game Sunday against the Lindsay Muskies. Harman faced 35 shots in this match and was a stand-out as the MoJacks won the game 6-1. Coupled with a Saturday As the LOSSA High - School basketball sea- son winds down for the exam break, Port Perry's seniors and juniors both gained crucial victories against Oshawa R.S. McLaugh- lin Collegiate. Port's seniors, although highly successful in the exhib | Just who the MoJacks will face in the best of severi opening playoff rounds likely won't be. determined until the middle of this week, but team officials suspect the opposition may be the Little Britain Mer- chants. The MoJacks had to win both weekend games if they wanted to escape fifth spot in the standings, and Saturday night in Little Britain, they pulled out an 8-7 ition season, had not won a game in five league games and badly. needed a victory. They won their game handily in a 59 to 38 score over McLaughlin. The offense, led by Colin Stone and Mike Woud took control of the backboards as they victory with a goal by Mike Ryan with just 49 seconds left in the match. . A tie game would not have helped the cuase, so Ryan's game winner came with MoJack goal- ie Clay Lovering on the bench in favour of an extra attacker. And the gamble paid off. Bob Horton was instrumental in starting the play as he trapped a puck at the blue line and fed it back in front of the confidence come to fruition in their decisive scored 13 and 11 points respectively aided by Ed Summers, also with 11 and Darryl Mussel- man with 8. This victory also pleased coach John Rodway who is convinc- ed of the team's ability and finally saw his Juniorsin 11-1 romp On Sunday January 20th, Sportsland Juniors met a much. improved Beaverton team at Port Perry Arena. Opening for Port was Colleen Yorke with an assist from Denise Tompkins. Heidi Meisner put in goals two and three assisted by Vicki Reid and Sherry Harris. Kim Loudfoot put one in with help from Colleen Yorke and Tina Soomre. It was Tina's turn next, assist- ed by Val White. Heidi scored assisted by Vicki and Tina put in another one, unassisted. Heidi put in the next three goals assisted by Tina and Vicki. Denise Tom- pkins wrapped up the scoring with an assist from Vicki. Final score was 11-1 for Port Perry. Merchant cage. Ryan managed to somehow get his stick on the puck and it just trickled inside the goal post. It was a wild and woolly finish to a high scoring game which saw the lead change hands a couple of times. At the Scugog Arena Sunday night, the Mo- Jacks needed a second straight victory over the Lindsay Muskies, and they got a truly out- standing performance win. Port's Juniors won their fourth straight league victory. The junior squad took command of the game from the start but failed to reach high percent- age shooting until well into the second half. The scoreboard indicated an even game until the third quarter when Lee Wilbur finally succeed- ed in finding the hoop and emerged as the team's top scorer with 23 points. Craig Menzies registered 15 and Dave Burnett 12 as Port's juniors emerged finally as the clear winners in a 60 to 48 win. The midget squad also f, PPHS grab a pair of wins tron Ken Harman in the 'nets who sparkled in a 6-1 truimph. Harman kicked aside 35 shots and had a shut-out going until the mid-point of the third period when the Muskies Brad Cormier spoiled the bid with a short-handed marker. He fired a low shot off a face-off that seemed to catch Harman off guard. It was the only mistake Harman made "all evening. - night win over Little Britain, the MoJacks hopped into third spot in the final league standings. But just who the team Will face in the opening playoff round is still not known officially. (See story for details) took command of their game in the first quarter and attained an 8 point lead, but care- less passing and costly turnovers soon scuttled their lead. Adam Zimmerman led the defense, in rebounds and Brad Traves led the offense as he hit 13 points but their efforts were not enough to stem McLaughlin's pressure. Final score MCVI - 52 PPHS - 25. Next league game for all three teams is on Wed. Jan. 30 as Port takes on the powerful Pickering squads at Port Perry. The MoJacks scoring attack was again led by Brian Joe Nicholson who clicked for the hat trick and chipped in with an assist. He con- tinues to give opposition goalies nightmares with his rocket blasts. Two of his goals came off slap shots from the deep slot area and the final was a wrist shot from the left wing that just caught the top corner of the cage. Rob Nicholson gave the MoJacks a 1-0 lead at 6:32 with an unassist- ed marker. After Joe scored at 9:07, captain Scott Wallace banged in a pass at the side of the Lindsay net and then Joe Nicholson made it 4-0 at 16:34. The final MoJack goal of the game was scored 19:47 = when Brian Stevenson knocked in a shot off a scramble in <. front of the Lindsay net. Jeff Butterworth and Mike Brown drew the- assists. But the story of the game was the play of Harman in the nets. He stopped everything from breakaways to long shots to drives from point blank range "in his bid for a shut-out. He was especially sharp during a four minute span in the final period when the MoJacks were short-handed. In Little Britain Sat- urday night, the Mo- Jacks got off to a sluggish start in the first period as the Merchants opened a 2-0 lead on goals by Chris McLean and Brian Beukeboom. But they bounced back in the second with six markers, four on the power play. Brian Nicholson clicked for a hat trick; Scott Wallace rapped in two and Mike Brown had a single. But the Merchants also scored three by Willie Thornbury, Paul Young and Darryl Patterson. The MoJacks were clinging to a 6-5 lead when Rob Sedore gave them a two goal bulge at the 5:32 mark of the third with a back-hand shot that hopped over the stick of Merchant goalie Ron Stewart. But Willie Thornbury made it 7-6 at the seven minute mark on a two on one break, and with 1:29 left in the game, Paul Young knotted the score at 7-7. A tie would have assured the Mer- chants of finishing no worse than fourth in the standings, but a single point was worthless to the MoJacks. So coach Bob Marquis - ordered the extra attacker and the Mo- Jacks put on a great deal of pressure that paid off with Mike Ryan's game winner. The MoJacks could have helped their cause on Jan. 14 when they travelled to Cobourg for a game against the Cougars, but came up 'on the short end of a 9-7 score, the final Cougar goal going into an empty net. Brian Nicholson had the hat trick with two assists, Jeff Duncan rapped in two with singles going to Jeff Butterworth and Rob Sedore. Scott Wallace . and Jeff Johnstone had three assists each and Jeff Butterworth had two. Brian Nicholson has been scoring at a torrid pace in his last few games and appears un- officially to have locked up with Central scoring championship with 86 points. Final stats from the league won't be available until next ~ week. Nicholson is a strong candidate for MVP honours as well. In the league stand- ings, the Bowmanville Eagles finished on top ~ with 41 points, the Port Hope Panthers nailed down second place, followed by Port Perry, * Lindsay, Little Britain, Lakefield, Cobourg and Uxbridge. The Panthers and Cougars played their final game Monday evening, but the out- come won't change the team positions. All eight teams qualify for the opening round of playoffs, but as of press time Monday evening, the match-ups were not known. Bowmanville has first choice and probably will select Uxbridge or Cobourg. Port Hope has second choice, the Mo- Jacks have third and the Muskies will meet who- ever is left from the bottom four teams. MoJack team officials huddled after the victory Sunday night and more or less decid- ed that if it comes down to a choice between Little Britain and Lake- field, the MoJacks would select the Mer- chants because the travelling distance is not as far. However, the MoJacks will have to wait to see who the' Turn to page 22)