{"id":16494,"date":"2017-02-09T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16494"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:58:50","slug":"st-max-mustangs-look-to-defend-title-in-girls-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/st-max-mustangs-look-to-defend-title-in-girls-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Max Mustangs look to defend title in girl\u2019s hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The St. Maximilian Kolbe Mustangs have a reputation to uphold in hockey, and the varsity girls squad is certainly doing their part.<br \/>\nFor the second straight year, the Mustangs have finished atop the York Region Athletic Conference heading into playoff action, posting a 7-1-0 record against the four other teams in the conference.<br \/>\nThey capped off their season Monday with a decisive 2 \u2013 0 victory over the Aurora High School Eagles, who sit second in the conference.<br \/>\nForward Nikki Shaw put the team on her back scoring both goals, breaking the shutout late in the second before potting another by splitting the defensemen midway through the third.<br \/>\nVictoria Solilo provided the shutout, her fourth of the year.<br \/>\nIn eight regular season games, the Mustangs have allowed just five goals.<br \/>\nWith the playoff picture now set, the number-one seeded Mustangs will take on the fourth-seeded Stouffville High School Spartans in the first round of the YRAA playoffs. Each series is a first-to-three-points format.<br \/>\nIn the other matchup, the second-seeded Eagles will face the third-seeded Markham District Marauders.<br \/>\nSt. Max is the annual \u201cteam to beat\u201d in the tournament, reaching the final in the last three seasons. In 2016, the Mustangs took home the title with a series sweep of the Bill Crothers Colts.<br \/>\nPlayoff action is set to begin next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Maximilian Kolbe Mustangs have a reputation to uphold in hockey, and the varsity girls squad is certainly doing their part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16494","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\/2017-02-09-07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494","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=16494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}