{"id":13561,"date":"2016-03-02T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T23:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=13561"},"modified":"2016-03-09T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T23:38:26","slug":"junior-saints-basketball-cruises-to-cisaa-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/junior-saints-basketball-cruises-to-cisaa-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Saints basketball cruises to CISAA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Momentum is often the x-factor in a team\u2019s postseason run, and the U16A St. Andrew\u2019s College Saints are hoping that rings true in CISAA basketball playoffs.<\/p>\n

A final regular season record of 12 \u2013 3 is good for second-place in the top junior tier of independent schools, an impressive finish capped off by a four-game winning streak. That sets up a semifinal matchup with Crescent School, the third-place finishers who also hold an impressive record of 10 \u2013 4. <\/p>\n

Despite the strong finish, the game should prove to be a challenge for the Saints: their last defeat came on Feb. 3, a three-point game at the hands of Crescent School. The Saints returned the favour with a three-point win of their own over Crescent two games later, a 39 \u2013 36 effort that saw Noah Hulton put up 12 points while Bilal Mahmood added ten of his own.<\/p>\n

The championship tournament wraps up Saturday at the home of the highest remaining seed, which would be the 13 \u2013 1 St. Michael\u2019s College, who handed the Saints their other two regular season defeats.<\/p>\n

The varsity Saints playoffs hopes were dashed on Friday in a 63 \u2013 55 loss to St. John\u2019s Kilmarnock, the second of three must-win games to end the season to stand a chance of making the postseason. They ended the season the following day with a lopsided loss to the top-seeded Ridley College.<\/p>\n

In junior varsity, the Saints ended the season on a high note by squeaking out a 36 – 35 win over Lakefield College School on Saturday, finishing with a 5 \u2013 5 record for second in the Western conference and home court advantage to open the playoffs. They face De La Salle, the third-seeded team in the East, in league quarterfinals. The league\u2019s championship tournament is also set for Saturday at Toronto Montessori School in Richmond Hill.<\/p>\n

For schedules, visit www.cisaa.ca.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Momentum is often the x-factor in a team\u2019s postseason run, and the U16A St. Andrew\u2019s College Saints are hoping that rings true in CISAA basketball playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-03-09.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3wJ","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 21:58:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}