{"id":16463,"date":"2017-02-09T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16463"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:37:29","slug":"panthers-lace-up-in-international-silver-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/panthers-lace-up-in-international-silver-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers lace up in International Silver Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over fifty Atom and Bantam rep teams took to the ice in Aurora for the girls International Silver Stick tournament this weekend, and two hometown teams came out on top.<br \/>\nBoth the Atom AA and Bantam BB Panthers were crowned champions in the largest minor hockey tournament in the world, each going undefeated en route to their championship.<br \/>\nThe Atoms defeated the Whitby Wolves and Oakville Hornets in round robin play, tying the Waterloo Ravens to meet the Stoney Creek Sabres in Saturday\u2019s semifinal.<br \/>\nA 1 \u2013 0 win set up a championship game against the Barrie Sharks Sunday at the Aurora Community Centre, winning the title by a score of 2 \u2013 1 in a battle of the undefeated.<br \/>\nThe Bantam BB Panthers had a similar path to the championship game, allowing just one goal in wins over the Rocky Mountain Lady RoughRiders and the Barrie Sharks and a tie with the Kitchener Lady Rangers.<br \/>\nThey met the Huron Heat in their final after shutting out the Oakville Hornets, downing the Heat 2 \u2013 1 to earn the championship.<br \/>\nIn other action, the North Halton Twisters defeated the Kingston Ice Wolves to win the Atom A division, the Orangeville Tigers shut out the Clearview Ice Cats in Atom BB, and the Oakville Hornets beat the Brampton Canadettes in Bantam A.<br \/>\nThe Bantam AA Panthers went undefeated in round robin play, before falling 2 \u2013 0 to a tough Stoney Creek Sabres squad in Sunday\u2019s semifinal. Stoney Creek went on to beat the Oakville Hornets in the championship game.<br \/>\nNow in its eighteenth year, the annual Silver Stick tournament in Aurora attracts over 1,000 spectators and athletes.<br \/>\nAs the Central York Girl\u2019s Hockey Association regular season comes to a close, the Aurora Panthers rep teams are preparing for playoff action.<br \/>\nSchedules will be posted at www.girlshockey-centralyork.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over fifty Atom and Bantam rep teams took to the ice in Aurora for the girls International Silver Stick tournament this weekend, and two hometown teams came out on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16463","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\/2017\/02\/2017-02-09-06.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463","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=16463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}