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22 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, October 15, 1986 Sports ~N Great season finally ends for Gamblers The fastball season came to an end Monday night for the Greenbank Gamblers as they lost the Oshawa and District A Division championship series three games to one to the Oshawa Mer- chants. While losing is never easy, the Gamblers can look back on the past season with plenty of pride. The team captured first place in league play, and in mid-September won the Ontario In- termediate C championship in thrilling fashion in front of a huge crowd at the tournament in Port Perry. Front from left: Hugh Johnson, Terry Novice League underway The first games of the Novice House League of the Port Perry Minor Hockey Corporation took place last Saturday, with all six teams in action. Sponsors of this year's tea.us are Port Perry Prin- ting, David's Hairstyling, Re/Max Realty, Swamp Auto Body, Gord Lewis Motors and. Kinsmen Club. GAME 1: David's Hairstyling -- 6 Port Perry Printing -- 2 This game was a tight contest un- til midway through the second period, with the teams tied at two. However, David's came on in the third with three unanswered goals. Famed Blue Jays catcher Ernie Whitt sign- ed autographs, posed for pictures and chatted with local fans at Dennis Anderson Chev/Olds on DI EN Point getters for David's were- Matt Brown, 4 goals and an assist; Kent Taylor, 2 goals and an assist; and Glen Espie, 1 assist. For Port Perry Printing, Matt Mantel and Kirk Swain each had a goal. GAME 2: Re/Max Realty -- 3 Swamp Auto Bod -- 3 Swamp and Re/Max traded goals back and forth, neither team ever leading by more than one goal. For Swamp, Craig Laird and three goals, Darryl McEnaney and Greg Pugh, an assist each. For Re/Max, _Jon Jamieson, Adam Hunter and Matt Phoenix scored, assists going looked on. Till, Rolande Osske, Ken Goreski, bat-boys Chris Meyers and Ricky Olaisen (holding banner), Scott Foster, (holding the OASA plaque) Don Phinney, Neil Rodd, 'George Redshaw, coach Steve Foster. Back from left: manager Rodd Foster, Don Beaton, John Foster, Dennis Romeril, Russ Kor- bak, Greg Rodd, Trevor Till, Ray Meisner, Brian Till, Rodd Real, Brian Meyer, Lloyd Lee (team sponsor). Congratulations to the Gamblers on an exceptional season. to Jeff Jamieson and Jamie Trick. GAME 3: Gord Lewis Motors -- 2 Kinsmen-- 2 The final game of the day went scoreless through the first period and a half, before Gord Lewis took the lead. The third period saw three more goals scored, with Kinsmen tying the game up with only 33 seconds left on the clock. Darryl Bourgeois had both goals for Gord Lewis, an assist being credited to Brad Morton. Matt McClelland and Ian Shrigley were the snipers for Kinsmen. Matt also had an assist, as did Jason Brain. Saturday. Above, he stole a kiss from cautious Janine Gordon, 3, while her older brother Aaron The Greenbank Gamblers went down to defeat three games to one at the hands of the Oshawa Mer- chants in the best of five series for the Oshawa and District League championship. The Merchants, leading the series two to one, arrived in Greenbank Monday night ready to put it away, and they unleashed a strong hitting attack en route to an 11-0 victory. The Gamblers on the other hand, simply cold not get the bats work- ing in the face of a fine pitching per- formance by Jim Chilvers. The Gamblers finished on top of the league standings, then had a three week lay-off waiting for the semi-finals to be completed. Gambler manager Rod Foster said Junior C fans in Port Perry will get more than a hockey game when the MoJacks hold their season "home opener" October 19 against the Lindsay Muskies at the Scugog Arena. Thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of Durham College student Rob Burnett, opening night will include a series of draws for some pretty nifty gift certificates donated by local and Durham businesses. In all, there will be eight gift cer- ~ tificates drawn for such things as sporting goods, dinner for two at a local restaurant, a round of golf with electric cart, use of a VCR for a cou- ple of weeks and free passes to two different theatres in Oshawa. Rob, 20, is a first year student in Sports Administration at Durham College, and part of his course this year is to organize and promote a sports event in the community. He decided to try the MoJacks home opener, and with the blessing of the team executive, has been busy for the past couple of weeks lin- ing up gift certificates and donations from area merchants. Tickets for these draws will be 50 cents each and the draws will be made at the conclusion of the second period. "I'm hoping that as many people as possible will attend the game that night. A full house would be nice," he told the Star last week. Rob will be handing out numerous free passes for the game to students 'that while he didn't want to take "anything away from the Merchants who played well, the three-week lay- off hurt his players and it took the edge off their play. The Gamblers, of course, reach- ed an emotional and physical peak back in mid-September when the won the all-Ontario Intermediate fastball championship in dramatic fashion at the tournament held in Port Perry. : The fact that the Gamblers were | at less than their ususal level of | competition in the league final is § probably indicated by the scores. Merchants won the three games 7-3, 8-3, and 11-0, while the Gamblers sole victory was by a 3-2 margin. A special night for Junior C fans at elementary and high schools in } Port Perry. He's hoping the young § 3 people will come to the game and § bring their friends and parents. And as part of the opening festivities, local musician Marlo £ Guido has agreed to play the Na- ff tional Anthem. David Jackson, on §§ behalf of the team sponsor Mother #8 Jackson's of Port Perry will drop § the ceremonial first puck at centre 3 ice, and players from both the Mo- # Jacks and the Muskies will be in- dividually introduced prior to the Sf game. i Rob, whose older Brother George is MoJack coach this season, says § reponse to his project so far has § been very positive, from the team #8 executive to all the merchants who } generously agreed to donate gift § certificates as prizes. 3 Rob says he hopes that at 50 cents } per ticket, he can turn over some § money at the end of the night to the | team, and that the promotion will } bring some new fans to the arena | who will come back to see the Mo- | Jacks play again this winter. 4 Game time is 7:30 October 19 at § the Scugog Arena. Aside from the § special events, fans should see a ° pretty good hockey game as well. | Lindsay and Port Perry are tradi- § tional Junior C rivals and in pre- § season exhibition games with each # other, the teams split a pair of games with one goal deciding the outcome. You Could Drive Away A Beautiful 4-28 Listen to C-KAR 1350 For Details