{"id":16555,"date":"2017-02-16T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16555"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:14:12","slug":"cardinal-carter-moving-on-in-yraa-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/cardinal-carter-moving-on-in-yraa-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Carter moving on in YRAA basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aurora has a sole representative heading forward in the competitive YRAA basketball playoffs.<br \/>\nThe Cardinal Carter Celtics are one of sixteen teams to reach the third round of York Region\u2019s AAA bracket, the largest bracket in York Region Athletic Association sports.<br \/>\nHeading into their matchup on Friday with the St. Roberts Rams, both teams were evenly matched, playing to a 4 \u2013 5 record through the regular season.<br \/>\nThe Celtics squeaked out a 56 \u2013 44 victory in a back-and-forth effort.<br \/>\nNext up for Cardinal Carter is their most challenging opponent yet, facing one of the top seeds in AAA basketball in the Vaughan Voyageurs: former home of NBA star Andrew Wiggins.<br \/>\nVaughan was one of two teams to go 7 \u2013 1 in the league\u2019s top bracket, along with Thornhill Secondary School.<br \/>\nThe playoffs culminate next Thursday, when the two finalists will go head-to-head in Keswick.<br \/>\nSt. Maximilian Kolbe fell by the wayside to the Markville Marauders last week in a \u201cwin and you\u2019re in\u201d game, while Aurora High School was eliminated by a strong Sir William Mulock squad in the opening round.<br \/>\nFor schedules, visit www.yraa.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora has a sole representative heading forward in the competitive YRAA basketball playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16555","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\/2017-02-16-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","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=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}