{"id":15308,"date":"2016-09-21T21:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2016-09-21T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:56:32","slug":"barbs-to-meet-london-in-first-round-of-mccormick-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/barbs-to-meet-london-in-first-round-of-mccormick-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbs to meet London in first round of McCormick Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A sixth place finish in Rugby Ontario\u2019s top division has set up an interesting post-season matchup for the senior Aurora Barbarians.<br \/>\nThe Barbs, playing out of Rugby Ontario\u2019s Premiership division, have a date with London St. George, the regular season victors of the second tier Championship division.<br \/>\nA 22 \u2013 14 loss to the basement-dwelling Waterloo County on Saturday solidified a record of 4-10-0 for the Barbs. London, meanwhile, put together an incredible season in Championship play, amassing a 13-1-0 record while averaging 51 points per game, and going undefeated on home turf.<br \/>\nThe action begins this Saturday in London, where a win will send the Barbs to the McCormick Cup quarterfinals on October 1 and a loss would send them to the consolation quarters on the same day. The championship game has a set date of October 22.<br \/>\nBrantford enters the postseason as odds-on favourites to win the title, playing to a record of 12-2-0 in the Premiership division this season.<br \/>\nBalmy Beach (9-5-0) are the returning champions, having won the Cup two years in a row.<br \/>\nAurora was the back-to-back victor of the Cup in 2009 and 2010.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Barbs second team opens their quest for the Gee Gage Cup on Saturday as well, the top trophy for Rugby Ontario teams not competing in the first-tier leagues.<br \/>\nAurora, who finished the season 2-12-0, visits Barrie to take on Barrie RFC at 1.30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sixth place finish in Rugby Ontario\u2019s top division has set up an interesting post-season matchup for the senior Aurora Barbarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15308","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\/2016-09-22-12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","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=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}