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(Photo by Leighton Chong) By John Reich The Aurora Barbarians Senior Men's team hosted Toronto Scottish for two games at Fletcher's Fields on Saturday and came away with two losses and mounting pressure to avoid relegation to Tier 2 competition next year. In the first team game, head coach Ian McLeod had to juggle his final lineup yet again in the face of mounting injuries as promising rookie second row forward Austin St. Amant suffered a serious leg injury at work and will be unavailable to the club for an undetermined amount of time. Combined with injuries to Captain Eric Selvaggi, back row Steve Seccareccia and centre Jesse Walker as well as the absence of Canada trialist Paul Ciulini, McLeod was forced to draw heavily on the development team to fill his side against the second place Scots. The Barbarians were under pressure from the opening kickoff and while not nearly as disorganized as the week previous in Oakville, the young Barbarians struggled to compete against a formidable and well drilled opponent. Despite an undying effort on defence, the Scots overwhelmed the Aurora side with five trys in the first half to lead 25 – 0 at the break. During the intermission, Coach McLeod reassured his team that they were quite capable of performing at a higher level and admonished them for a lack of focus. In the second half, the Barbs drew closer with two early trys from Marnus Coetsee and Jon West, both converted by kicker Mark Denton to bring the score to 30 – 14, but the comeback was cut short with the exhausted York Region side giving up two more trys late in the game to lose 42-14. The result puts the Barbarians in a tie with Waterloo County for last place in the Ontario Marshall Premiership, County taking two bonus points in its 31-29 loss to Oakville Crusaders on Saturday. The two teams will meet for the first time this year in Waterloo next Saturday to heighten the speculation on which the Marshall Club might be relegated. In the second team match-up with the Scottish, the Barbarians' development team showed the stress of the call-ups to the first side falling to the Toronto club 62 to 28 but winning a bonus point for four trys scored. Touching down for Aurora was scrumhalf James Hulbert twice with singles going to Nick Manoukas and Tyler Neil. Hulbert added four conversions. The development side will be featured in Waterloo next weekend, as well. ]]> 7434 2014-07-16 18:32:45 2014-07-16 22:32:45