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1 I I I NI =. CA IL i i, [owe aE R52 ~ 26 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 24, 1991 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" All signs point to a "thumbs-up" ing camp this year is any Indication. Coach Ken Harmon (left), liament (centre) and Assistant Coach Garnet Warriner are looking forward to it. General Manager Murray Par- Roster trimmed to 24 MoJacks lose two exhibition games but coaches are not concerned By Al Bailey The Cougars beat the Mo- Jacks 8 to 6 in the scoring de- partment, but coach Ken Har- man and assistant coach Garnet Warriner appeared un- concerned about the outcome. They witnessed some bright spots amongst the 20 players who dressed for this game, al- though it was obvious many of them still lacked their skating legs. Afterall, scores do not matter much in, pre-season ex- hibition matches. They provide opportunities to assess players' capabilities in game situations. "What we saw here tonight was the Cougars main team for the season," said MoJacks Gen- eral Manager Murray Parlia- ment. "A lot of our returning players from last season sat out thisgame." Mike Warlow and Jeff Barr led the MoJacks scoring attack with two goals apiece. Single tallies were recorded by Bob Stabile and Mark McKay, while fiesty Mike Coulson, Port Perry's answer to Theoren Fleury of the Calgary Flames, picked up two assists. After two exhibition games last week the management of Port Perry MoJacks has pared the club's roster down to 24. This was quite a chore consider- ing 40 players were on hand when training camp opened. But the job isn't over yet. Three more players will have to be cut before the team opens its 1991-92 regular season in the Central Ontario Junior 'C' cir- cuit Sunday Oct. 6 against the Little Britain Merchants. Last Tuesday night's match- up with the Cobourg Cougarsin the local ice plant was anything but finesse hockey. It was, to say the least a chippy affair in which the path to the sin bin saw more action than Elizabeth Taylor's trips down the marital aisle. A total of 87 minutes in pen- alties were assessed for just about every imaginable infrac- tion. Roughing, slashing, high sticking, cross-checking, trip- ping, elbowing, hooking, hit- ting from behind and fighting. And four game misconducts were handed out, two to each team. Steve Dawe and Kevin Wil- liams each had a pair of goals for the Cougars. Chris Ma- guire, Jason Holland, Geoff Fleming and Chris Pettipas rounded out the scoring for the visitors. Thursday night's game in Bowmanville was much more disciplined hockey. Only 20 minutes worth of penalties. Jarrett Harman and Kevin Bagshaw were the ModJacks' sharpshooters with two goals apiece. Singles were fired by Brian Durand, Dave Stockton, Jim Vernon and Gord Clark. Rob Real led the Bowman- ville club with three goals. Greg Goode had a pair and Ryan Stewart, Trevor Newell, Mark Peiror, Gary Adams and Adri- an Dew each scored once to give the Eagles a 10 to 8 victory. The MoJacks had a look at three goaltenders in these two games. John Rowinski and Ian Cooper shared the netminding duties in Tuesday night's con- - test and Shayne Dault and Rowinski again, were in action on Thursday. Murray Parliament expects to have one more goalie in camp for a try-out before the team de- cides which two will be retained for the season. Executive Support ModJacks president Walt San- dison was on hand for Tuesday night's home game, which is his usual practice throughout the season. "Hockey is a great sport to be involved in," said Walt, who is now in his second term as the team's top executive officer. "It keeps a person thinking and feeling young." Watts Up! Clare Watts, that's who. This is the 20th anniversary season for the MoJacks and Clare has been with the club since the very beginning as its public ad- dress announcer. He will be up in the gondola again this sea- son to keep fans informed about who did what and when. Lucky MusicMan Jeff Brown, who will provide some musical interlude during home games this year, won the 50-50 draw Tuesday night and picked up a cool 36 bucks. Next Home Games The MoJacks will play two more exhibition games at home this week in the Port Perry are- na. Tonight (Sept. 24) they host the Little Britain Merchants and Thursday night the Bow- manville Eagles will be in town. Both games are 8p.m. starts. Precious Bunny wins Little Brown Jug before record breaking crowd By Kelly Lown "That just about proves it all, the rest is history." Those were the words of Pre- cious Bunny trainer Bill Robin- son as he stood in the winners circle after Precious Bunny cap- tured the 1991 Little Brown Jug, the oldest of the three jew- els in the Triple Crown of Rac- ing. . Precious Bunny, a Cam Fel- la-Bunny's Wish Colt made his way to a two heat sweep on Thursday, in front of 52,967 people, the largest crowd ever at the Little Brown Jug. The three-year-old colt owned by Port Perry's Peter Heffering recieved $228,334 for the afternoon bringing his sea- son total to $1,864,541 with 16 wins in 19 starts. In what was probably the most exciting first eighth in harness racing history, Pre- cious Bunny vaulted to the front in 0:13.3 as a result of be- ing the only horse in the race with his nose on the starting gate. From there he reached the quarter in 0:27. Precious Bunny defeated Three Wizards by aheadin 1:54.1. In the eight horse final Bun- ny, from the three hole, again shot to the front reaching the quarter in 0:28.1. From there he led at each postin 0:57.2 and 1:27, and the mile in 1:55 to win by three-quarters of a length over Nuke Skywalker. Three Wiens and Bill Gale finished third. After the final heat Precious Bunny driver Jack Moiseyev said "he's done everything we have asked him to do and he proved himself today...He's very well mannered when he gets to the top. I just have to let him go. When he gets to the front he relaxes. I was con- cerned about Nuke Skywalker, but once we were free of him, we just went on. 1 wasn't too con- cerned that he had used up everything in the first heat, but he was getting tired at the end. The Little Brown Jug, one of harness racings most prestig- ious races for three-year-olds took place in Grand Circuit County Fairgrounds in Dela- ware, Ohio this past Thursday. The Jug is the oldest of the three jewels in the Triple Crown of Racing. The $500,000 Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway on Aug. 24 and the $350,000 Messenger Stake Sept. 7 were the other two jewels. Precious Bunny was forced to be a scratch in the Cane Pace after contracting a viral lung infection that put him on the sidelines for three weeks. Precious Bunny is the favor- ite for the harness horse of the year award. The Bunny, as he is affection- ately known, became the first horse in standardbred history to win two $1 million events in a single season, the Meadow- lands and the North America Cup. In addition he is the fast- est horse ever to win a night race with his 1:49.4 victory in the Meadowlands Pace. Peter Heffering bought Pre- cious Bunny in a private sale in December of 1990 for a reported $125,000. At two years of age, he won his first race, but never won again until he was bought over the winter and sent to the Rob- inson Stables. When a fire hit the Ben Stafford Stables (Pre- cious Bunny's previous trainer) he was turned out and thus avoided being killed. Precious Bunny was fitted with a new bridle by Robinson and it improved him dramati- cally. Heffering, a cattle breeder, is a second-year owner who had Santa Royal, 2, as his first horse last year. Local rugby players 'members of Ontario Under-17 team By Kelly Lown Four local rugby players rep- resented Port Perry at the Pro- vincial Rugby Championships recently. The four local Port Ferry High School students were part of the Ontario Under-17 Rugby team which claimed the silver medal at the championships. The coaches of the Ontario team contacted several high school coaches for names of players who would be interest- ed in trying out for the Ontario team. Grade 12 students Al F\ t- ti, Scott McTavish, David Mor- rin and Grade 11 student Lind- say Parry were selected to be a part of the Ontario team at the National Championships in Nepean, Ottawa. he four local boys attended trials and were selected for the team. More than 700 potential players attended the trials from across the province. The Ontario team played five matches, winning three of them. Each of the players held a dif- ferent position, Al was a fly- half; Lindsay a hooker; David a scrum-half; and Scott played wing. The Ontario team faced stiff competition from British Co- lumbia, Alberta, New Bruns- wick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec. The British Columbia squad defeated the Ontario team in the finals 7-0 and Ontario had to settle for the silver medal. All four agreed they learned a lot from watching and playin with these teams. "Itis alot aif ferent from high school," Al added. Turn to Page 28 I ----