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PE Real oY Lon J ua hent 2000 bud an 14 | nr PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 23, 1993 - 31 KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR An eight-member rink from Port Perry Curling Club defeated Uxbridge in an extra end to win the Two-Team Zone 5 Tankard at the Port Perry club on Monday, Feb. 15. This victory ualifies the team to compete in Regional play on March 1 at St. George's Golf and Country Ciub In Toronto. Pictured are the members of the winning rink. Front row from left are: Gale Ballard, Marian Laird, Elaine Watson and Larual Griffen. Back row from left are: Sandy Greenwood, Jan Towns, Karen Parish and Carol Jackson. Midget As eliminate Milton to advance to semi-finals The Precision Construction Midget Eagles have advanced to the O.M.H.A. semi-finals with a pair of wins this week. They took the 8 point series with Milton 9-1, and will now meet Collingwood in the semis. Monday night at home, the Eagles were flying as they erased the memory of a 2-2 tie 48 hours earlier. A solid team effort featuring positional play and puck movement resulted in a decisive 7-1 victory and a stranglehold on the series. For the third game in a row, Duane Empringham opened the scor- ing, on a power play. Jeremy Norton set up the goal with a rush down the left wing, circled the net and fed the puck into the slot for Dewey to hammer home. Less than a minute later Norton and Empringham com- bined for heavy pressure around the Milton net and set up Sean Ellis for a sharp angle shot that threaded the needle and stood as the winner. Mike Tripp was outstanding on one of Milton's rare threats in the first period. He appeared to break their hearts with back- to-back big saves on one series, and although they managed a goal in the second, they did not seriously challenge the issue. Jeff Card stretched the lead to 3-1 late in the second, back- handing a nice feed from Steve Desautels under Steve Hunter from the slot. Sean McEnaney also assisted. Card then sent Scott Heasman away for a high speed rush up the right boards. McEnaney was cruising in the deep slot and snapped Heas- man's pass into the back off the net. Desautels nailed a short re- bound after some digging by Card and McEnaney to make it 5-1 early in the third. Norton laid a perfect pass across the blueline for Chad Kearns, who blew by both defencemen to slip in goal number 6. Then, in the dying minutes, McEnaney notched his second of the game to give him a 4 point night, as- sisted by Jason Phillips and Empringham, who also had 4 points. Saturday night, turned to Milton for game 65. The issue was settled early, when the visitors went up 3-0 before the game was 5 minutes old. Kearns put the Eagles up 2- 0 in the first 4 minutes. 1:67 into the game, he knocked in a short rebound assisted by Ellis and Empringham. Just under 2 minutes later, he picked up an unusual bounce off the corner boards .and slipped a long shot from near the Phe line under a surprised Jeff Currie for his fifth of the series. Desautels scored the clincher, and eventu- al winner, at 4:52 unassisted, firing a 10 footer from the slot. In the final minute of the Port re- first, Empringham cleared a Milton thrust to 'he corner, then Ryan Ridgway floated a lead pass up the middle. De- fenceman Brad McArthur broke away to take the pass and beat a sprawling, slashing de- fender to cut in and beat currie from close range. Milton finally solved Rick Hutchinson's goaltending just before the end of the second, when a screened point shot found its way in on a power play. The third was scrambly and featured a steady stream of players going to the box, or the showers. Most of these were Milton's as the Eagles gave a creditable demonstration of the discipline stressed by their coaching staff. With 2:05 re- maining Jason Phillips broke down left wing and fed a perfect pass in front to Desautels. Desi immediately snapped it into the roof of the net for a 5-1 lead, his team leading 7th of the series. Milton counted one more mean- ingless goal with 36 ticks on the clock, eashing in on a loose puck to make the final score 5-2. Even without hitting on all cylinders all the time, the Ea- gles dominated this series, out- scoring Milton 27-8 in the five games and will be looking for a consistent high level perfor- mance as they face Colling- wood. Atom As lose championship in dying seconds The Malmont Farms Atom As held their home tournament on Saturday and just missed win- ning the 'A' championship. Port Perry was up against Whitby in the final and lost a thriller with only seconds left in the game. Both teams had scored twice in the first period, Brett Clouth- ier opened the scoring on a nice ~ effort, with Aaron Chambers and Chris Jones getting the as- sists. Murphy Irving then scored on a wrist shot from the point that just got under the crossbar, Brett Drew the assist. After a scoreless second peri- od Whitby managed to get one midway through the third and when Port was given a body con- tact penalty with just over two minutes left, it looked bleak for the boys. Coach Lee Wilbur pulled the goalie with a minute to go and that move paid off when Braden Tarbotton snapped one home to tie the game with only 30 seconds re- maining. Brett and Brad John- ston got the assists on this marker after doing some tena- cious forechecking. This seemed to turn the momentum in Port's favor but the Atoms got caught pressing for the winner and Whitby ended the game on a breakaway with only four sec- onds left on the clock. An unfor- tunate end to an excellent hock- ey effort by our boys who had been playing some of their best hockey this year. The Atoms had previously beaten a couple of Oshawa Firefighter Derby winner teams to advance to the final. Their first game early in the 'morning was against the Red Wings and this one went down to the final few minutes before Port clinched it with three late goals. After two periods the score was tied 2-2. For Port it was Brad from Chad Lance and ~ Nick Pelyk, and then Nick from Brad and Chad. Co In the third period Chris Skerratt showed some good hus- tle in getting to the puck and feeding a beauty of a pass to Chris Jones who made no mis- take on the one-timer. Mark Blakley also picked up an assist on this one. Brett then netted one from Braden and Dave Jus- tynski. The last goal came from Nick, Chad picking up the only assist. The game was a sign of the times as the Atoms had their passing game in full gear and in their next game against the Canadians they even picked itup a notch. In the first period Brett got things rolling with a tally from Ryan McQuade and Jeff Ash- ton. Then Brad bagged one from Nick and Chad to lead it 2-1 af- ter one. Ryan then made it 3-1" with Braden and Chad getting the assists, Braden then fin- ished off the scoring with Chris Skerratt and Aaron Chambers drawing the helpers. This game showed that the boys can play a really good passing game when they want to. Hopefully this Turnto Page 32 Garth Pascoe of Burketon was the overall winner of the 1st Port Perry Firefighters Association Ice Fighi ng Derby on Satur- day. Mr. Pascoe (at right) received $200 for landing a 5.98- pound pickerel, the heaviest of any of the fish caught by the 37 fishermen participating in the event. He is pictured being con- gratulated by the association's vice-president Jamie Donald- son. Second place went to Steve Delyea of Oshawa (4.23), third to Ron Hubbard of Raglan (3.46), sarea (2.91), and fifth to Bob Hub fourth to Brian Taylor of Cae- bard of Blackstock (2.45). Jeff Lyons was the lucky draw winner of $100.