{"id":15251,"date":"2016-09-14T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15251"},"modified":"2016-09-14T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:16:56","slug":"aurora-united-sunk-by-skillz-fc-as-season-draws-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-united-sunk-by-skillz-fc-as-season-draws-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora United sunk by Skillz FC as season draws to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another multi-goal effort from All-Star Simon Adjei was not enough for Aurora United FC to best their division rival Toronto Skillz FC on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Adjei struck twice in the first 45 minutes of action in Scarborough, though it would be the end of Aurora\u2019s offence as Skillz took the match 4 \u2013 2 to move ahead of Aurora in the table.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of goals moved Adjei into a solo second spot in league scoring leaders, with seventeen on the season. Zakariae Mahrady ranks second on the Aurora side in goals, with three.<\/p>\n<p>It was a crucial match for both Aurora and Toronto, with Toronto overtaking Aurora in the East for sixth place in the eight-team table. Aurora\u2019s record sits at 3-12-3.<\/p>\n<p>With only four games left in the season, Aurora finds themselves at home at Sheppard\u2019s Bush three times, where they found success with a pair of wins in late August. They host the league-leading Vaughan Azzurri (14-1-4) on home turf Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff is set for 7.30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Aurora women\u2019s side returns from a two-week break on Friday for their final game of the season, on the road to face Darby FC (1-11-3). The rookie squad found their groove in August, rattling off three straight wins, thanks mostly to the heavy foot of international star Sarah Stratigakis.<\/p>\n<p>A win Friday could secure Aurora fifth place in the nine-team league in the final standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another multi-goal effort from All-Star Simon Adjei was not enough for Aurora United FC to best their division rival Toronto Skillz FC on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-15-06.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251","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=15251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}