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-- RE RR "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" PICKERING 1670 Simcoe St., 1051 Brock St., (905) 579-6868 (905) 426- 5509 www. vanandiruckworld. com Angling for the winner en JEFF MITCHELL/PORT PERRY STAR Bradley Niles, 7, was among the youngsters who braved cold and high winds on Lake Scugog to take part in the Backbay Outfitters fishing derby, held Saturday morning. Winners of the event were Emily Menary, first, Nicole Deriet, second, Michelle Anne Shaw, third, and Trevor Hannon, fourth. The event was cancelled because of poor weather the weekend prior to this one. MoJacks down, but not out, In series By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The Port Perry MoJacks may be down 2-0 in their best of seven Junior C playoff series with the Lakefield Chiefs. But they're not out, not by any means. . "The guys are still in very good spir- its," said MoJack head coach and GM Murray Parliament Sunday night after seeing his team drop a tough 4-0 deci- sion to the Chiefs at the Scugog Arena. "They are certainly not going to give up," he stressed, adding that the players would be encouraged to see a good crowd at the Scugog Arena this coming Friday night (faceoff 8:00 PM) when the teams meet in the crucial game four of this affair. Game three is this Tuesday evening at the Lakefield Community Centre. Even though they came out on the short end of the 4-0 score, Mojacks turned in a much more solid effort from start to finish than. game one where they squandered away a 4-1 lead early in the second period and wound up losing 10- 4. The head coach agreed the team played better in the 4-0 loss, "a full effort for 60 minutes." Penalties continue to haunt the MoJacks in the first two games of this series. The Chiefs own the best power play in the Central Junior C League and Sunday night they again employed it to full advantage, scoring their final two goals with a MoJack in the box. Jamie Mcintyre hit at 8:45 of the sec- ond to make the score 3-0, and Chief captain Darren Mahoney upped it 4-0 early in the third with Adam Jones sitting out for goaltender interference. The call on Jones late in the second period was one the MoJacks hotly dis- puted as Jones was attempting to play the puck and simply collided with Chief netminder Ryan Hogan. However, penalties (justified or not) taken against the Chiefs spell nothing but trouble with a capital T, as they move the puck crisply in the opposition zone and more often than not, look for their sniper Mahoney to get free in the slot where he's deadly. Other marksmen for the Chiefs in this one were defenseman Mike Kingdon in the first period and Chirs Rainey, anoth- er sniper of note, midway through the middle stanza. Mojacks were not without some excel- lent scoring opportunities of their own. Had they got a favourable bounce or two in the opening period, the complexion of the game might have been vastly differ- ent. MoJack captain Shane Norton and for- wards Ryan McQuade and Andrew Mercer all missed fine scoring chances when the match was still very much on the line. : Coach Parliament noted after the match that he was pleased to see the team stuck pretty much to their game plan throughout--namely to concentrate on defense in their own zone and cut the Chief scoring chances to a minimum. However, the best 'D' in the world will go for naught if you fail to put some pucks in the other guy's net, and this game marked the first time all season the MoJacks have been white-washed. While penalties played a key role in the final outcome, it was a clean game with just sevén minors against the MoJacks and eight by the visitors. Chiefs took the least number of penalty min- utes of the six teams in the Central League during the regular season and as MoJacks found out, they are none too shabby when it comes to killing off a man advantage. Game three is tonight (Feb. 20) at 8:00 o'clock in Lakefield and the series swings back to the Scugog Arena Friday night, also at 8:00. If MoJacks can prolong the series, game five is Saturday night in Lakefield at 8:00, and should a game six be need- ed it will be at the Scugog Arena on Sunday evening starting at 7 p.m. ~The Port Perry Panthers Midget boys team did extremely well at a recent tour- nament in Ottawa. They tied for first in their pool and unfortunately came in second due to a point differential. With stiff competition from the Ottawa Roos, the Panthers moved into the 'gold medal round. Terry Daly, Matt Tennant and Evan Bush's fan- tastic job of setting coupled with John Wotten's great hitting helped the team place fourth. overall. The entire team put their best efforts forward and had a fan- tastic day. The Port Perty Panthers Midget girls team is made up of 12 girls aged 14 and 15 years old. This is the first year of tourna- ment play for the girls and. they have been practicing twice a week since October. They have travelled to Hamilton and Etobicoke and are ranked fifth over- all. Their most recent tournament saw strong serving from Jessica Foster and consistently great setting from Nikki Reinhardt. Darcia Fis played a strong game throughout the day while Tracy Thompson was her usual graceful self. Heather Brock was phenomenal at block- ing and tipping at the net. The girls are looking forward to the provincial tourna- ment at the end of March. The Port Perry Panthers Bantam girls team came away with gold medals at a recent tournament in Barrie. The girls faced off against the Crush team with each team winning one game a piece. When it came down to the final game the Panthers won 15-2, Katrina Duke and Jennifer Lenis both had some awesome runs, serving. Rebecca Williams had some great sets fol- lowed by strong hits from Melissa Reinhardt. Rebecca Reurekas did a won- derful job covering the back court with her well-controlled bumps. Emily Fountain picked up points with her pow- Boys volleyball team places fourth in tourney erful deep volleys. The Port Perry Panthers Club is having a fundraising bus trip to Casino Rama on Friday, March '9 for only $15 per person. This includes an all you can eat buffet at Couchiching Court Restaurant and bus transportation to and from Port Perry. There are only 55 seats available and they are going fast so reserve yours today. The club is also hosting a co-ed volley- ball tournament at Kingsway College on Sunday, March 11. Anyone interested in entering a team or purchasing Rama tickets should call Kelly Daly at 985-3113.