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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 15,1994 - 25 KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR Valerie Larocca, of Native Perspectives, left, presents the trophy to the winning rink of the Native Perspectives Bonspiel held Feb. 9. Members of the winning team are Bev Brown, skip, Freida Cochrane, vice, Nancy Grylls, second and Sharon Duff, lead. The rink finished: with 31 points. Second place went to Gale Ballard's rink with 30 Jackson's rink with 28 points. points and third to Carol By Paul Wylie After not having won a game in the series, Port realized that they had better turn things around, or they would quickly be eliminated from the playoffs. On Monday night, Uxbridge hosted the third game. Uxbridge came out flying and with virtually the first shot on net, Zeller put a quick one past Mike Tripp. A minute later, Port responded while on the power play. Vander Slagt and Vanderligt set up McEnaney, who sent a pass towards the net which slid by everyone and right into the net. With some strong forechecking by Ux- bridge and a poor defensive play by Port, Johnston put a shot on net resulting in another goal. In order to shake things up, the Port Juvies put Matt Wil- letts between the pipes. At the 9:06 mark of the first, Port popped their second goal, with a quick shot from in close, while on the power play. Desautels as- sisted on Ennis' marker. Still in the first, McEnaney broke out of the end zone, and fed Vanderligt just inside the other team's territory. Darrell made a beautiful, unselfish pass to Ridgway who placed the puck in the top corner to push the lead to 3-2. Just before the end of the first, Ridgway took a pounding behind the net by Pegg, the Uxbridge defender. After breaking free, Ryan found the puck sitting at the edge of the crease and hammered in his second of the game. Assists went to Ennis and Desautels. Things settled down during the second, while both teams decided to play a lot more physi- cal. Half way through the sec- ond, Ennis took a wicked penal- ty after delivering a crushing clothesline. Fortunately, Port's awesome penalty killing line came through again. So far this series, this line has only al- lowed an average of one-two shots on goal - at the most! Things got close in the third when Pegg, Uxbridge's most dominating force, crashed the net and put both the puck and Willetts in the net. The Key-Bar Juvies hung on to win 4-3, and tie the series up (three points each). The first team with eight points would advance on. : Feb. 10 saw Uxbridge travel to Port for another anticipated grudge match. Targeted quickly by Uxbridge, Vanderligt would find himself victim of most of the opponents cheap shots all night long. This quickly result- ed in a foolish play by the Ux- bridge defence when three de- fenders collapsed on Darrell who was trying to break down the far side. The puck ended up on Ridgway's stick, and he and Brett Puckrin walked in on a two man breakaway. Brett re- ceived the pass and buried his first of the season. A few seconds later, James tied the game up for Uxbridge, 1-1. While Ridgway and McE- naney were forechecking for Port, MacArthur pinched in from the point and sent a bullet along the ice to extend the lead 2-1. After Port's penalty killing line did another incredible job, while at a two man disadvan- tage, Port walked down the ice and Darrell Vanderligt shot one over the sprawling Tindall. Ridgway and Sean Ellis picked up the assists. The Key-Bar Juvies managed to keep Uxbridge off the score- board during the second, while we notched two more. Fitzge- rald and Puckrin set up McEna- ney, who sent a soft slapshot along the ice, which slid right past the Uxbridge goaltender. The next goal came on the pow- erplay. With some nifty tic-tac- toe passing between Desautels, Ennis, and Card, Jeff extended Port's lead to 5-1. Just betore the end of the sec- ond period, Uxbridge was fore- checking hard. One of the Ux- bridge players went behind the net chasing the puck. He had run into the Ennis Express. John leaned in with his hip and sent the Uxbridge checker fly- - ing in the air, turning a half sommersault, and finally crash- ing down on his head. He was al- right and the game continued on. In the third period, Uxbridge finally answered with their sec- Malmont Atoms take command of playoff series On Feb. 13th, Port Perry's Malmont Farms Atoms success- fully started their playoff sea- son on the road against Colling- wood by grabbing a 6-2 victory. This capped a busy weekend of hockey as they played against Markham on Feb. 11th and absorbed a tough 1-0 exhi- bition loss. On Feb. 12th, they scrimmaged with their friends on the Atom Pineridge Sports squad. The best way to take the home team fans out of the game when playing on the road is to get the first goal and our boys were prepared to do this after a fast-paced pre-game warmup. Rookie Dean VanCamp must have asked his stick to help him have a big game as he opened the Port Scoring on a wrist shot from the faceoff circle on a feed by Sean Jeffrey and went on to notch two more markers for the "hat trick". Aggressive fore- checking by our team allowed captain Jason Whitworth to poke in a rebound with assists by Steve Wygerde and Sean Jef- frey. Matt MacMaster was do- ing good digging for the puck along the boards and Grant ond of the game. The puck took a funny bounce off the end glass and ended up on Lunney's stick, which he deposited it into the wide open net. Wylie and Gar- vock helped set up Port's sixth and most surprising goal. Vander Slagt, one of Port's quiet defencemen, cruised into Uxbridge's zone, waited, went behind the net, waited, and fi- nally stuffed it in on his second attempt. The final goal of the game Hooker was doing some good de- fensive work in plugging up the neutral zone to keep the mo- mentum going our way. At 2:27 of the first Dean put us up 3-0 as he cut in from the wing and stuffed the puck un- der the sprawling Collingwood backstop. Centre Billy Carr and Sean Jeffrey earned the helper points. Collingwood showed that they weren't going to just roll over as they got on the board to make it 3-1 with just 45 seconds left in the first period. The two teams traded goals in the second period as Dean VanCamp scored while killing off a penalty as he was in the right place at the right time when Collingwood couldn't break out of their zone and lost possession of the puck in their own slot area. The home Black- hawks made the Port fans ner- vous as they put on a lot of pres- sure at the end of the second period and almost got to within one goal except for a great toe save by the Malmont "cagecop" Chris Monsma who made a fab- Turnto Page 27 Momentum shifts in Juveniles' favor came when Sean Ellis deflected Vander Slagt's shot from the point. The final score was 7-2 for the Juvies, and Port took the lead 5-3 (in points). Willetts played very well for Port, while the Uxbridge goaltending was not what it had been in the pre- vious three games. | Port Perry Juveniles will host Uxbridge again this Thursday at the Scugog Arena. Hope to see you out supporting them! ModJacks eliminate Chiefs with back-to-back wins by Shawn Bastarache The Port Perry MoJacks ad- vanced to the OHA Junior C Central Division semi-finals last week with back to back wins over the Lakefield Chiefs at Scugog Arena. After losing 5-4 in game three in Lakefield, head coach Brad Manzies and his club closed out the Chiefs posting a 7-1 win Wednesday night before finish- ing the series with a 7-4 victory on Friday. Throughout the series, one of the keys to victory for Port Perry was the success of its powerplay unit. Of the 29 goals the MoJacks scored during the five-game series 12 came as a result of a powerplay. Menzies, who knows the importance of special teams at the Junior lev- el, couldn't be happier with his team's recent sucess. "Our penalty killers have been playing really well und our powerplay worked excellent through the whole series," said Menzies who feels his special teams have been more efficient during the playoffs than at any other time this season. Another key to Port Perry's playoff success has to be the play of the MoJacks' "prodigal son" Shannon Todd. Todd, who left the club earlier this season for personal reasons, has re- turned with a renewed vigor for Shannon Todd 15 playoff points the game. The league Rookie of the Year last season, Todd has struggled through a tough season in 1993- 94 often being the focus of the opposition's attention. During the first-round set with the Chiefs however, Todd proved that last year's performance was no fluke as he caught fire scoring six goals and 15 points through the five games. Todd says the three-week hia- tus he took from the team was due mostly to frustration but also says the rest helped him come back with a fresh attitude and new focus. "That time off really helped me," he said, adding that when he came back to the club he "felt at ease and without any pres- sure." "Now I can't wait for the games, and when I'm not on the ice, I'm analyzing the game," said Todd. "I'm more into the game now." Todd also echoed his coach's thoughts on the MoJack power- play success ta this point in the playoffs and feels they will have to continue to play well through the remainder of the playoffs. "We have to play disciplined and have everybody going Turnto Page 29 nd, Po lA Ta on 0 ty P, . abe. NEE wd SN