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By Jake Courtepatte <\/strong><\/p>\n

Score one for the Tigers.
\nThe rebuild season for the Junior A Aurora Tigers will end on a positive note, after ensuring they did not finish dead last in the Northeast Conference with a win in Orangeville on Monday.
\nBoth teams were simply playing for bragging rights, eliminated from the Ontario Junior Hockey League postseason weeks ago. Each played with a competitive ferocity, however, with Orangeville\u2019s Hudson Lambert first beating Aurora goalie Brayden Lachance just over ten minutes in.
\nOrangeville went up by two just a few minutes later while shorthanded, before Jacob Kostopoulos\u2019 slap shot from the point made it through a number of bodies to make it a 2 \u2013 1 game.
\nWith Orangeville now up 3 \u2013 1 in the second period, the Tigers notched three quick goals to take the lead. Adam Petric first put a nice tip on a point shot from Sebastian Cirillo, while Luca Esposito was the recipient of a nice chip pass by Mel Melconian to bang it in the open side.
\nBrandon MacKinnon then scored shorthanded for the Tigers, shooing Orangeville goalie Nathan Torchia from the net.
\nAlthough Orangeville tied it at fours before the second intermission, Cirillo and Carmine Alberga scored the only two goals of the third, resulting in a 6 \u2013 4 win for the Tigers: their fourth on the road this season.
\nThe win leaves the Pickering Panthers in the dust with one game to go, tied at nine wins apiece but with more overtime luck going to the Tigers.
\nAurora faced the Whitby Fury the previous day in their only other matchup of the week, falling by the wayside 5 \u2013 2. Melconian and MacKinnon found the back of the net, while Esposito had Aurora\u2019s only multipoint night by adding two assists.
\nWith the regular season set to close out this Saturday, the Georgetown Raiders have locked up the first-place race with a record of 44-5-2-1, second best all time to the 2003-04 Tigers, who won the Royal Bank Cup after putting up a showing of 47-2-0-0.
\nThe Trenton Golden Hawks claim the Northeast Conference with a record of 41-8-2-1.
\nDown Yonge Street, the Newmarket Hurricanes will see the postseason for the second year in a row, squeaking in with an eighth-place finish, and will face Trenton in the first round.
\nAurora closes out the season Thursday in Kingston, facing the Kingston Voyageurs, who are locked into sixth position in the conference after losing three of their last four. They have had the Tigers\u2019 number this season offensively, scoring 24 goals against Aurora in the three games of their season series.
\nPuck drop is set for 7 p.m. in Kingston.
\nFor stats, schedules, and more information, visit www.auroratigers.pointstreaksites.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Score one for the Tigers.
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