{"id":16888,"date":"2017-03-29T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16888"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:24:19","slug":"express-win-double-gold-at-omha-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/express-win-double-gold-at-omha-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Express win double gold at OMHA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pair of York-Simcoe AAA clubs brought home the ultimate hardware at the AAA OMHA Championships last weekend.<br \/>\nThe Minor Atom Express traveled to Clarington for a tournament-style championship with the Halton Hurricanes, Clarington Toros, Southern Tier Admirals, and Markham Waxers, coming out on top without a loss in the series.<br \/>\nThree wins and a tie led to a final matchup with the hometown Toros, with the Express squeaking out a 1 \u2013 0 victory to claim the championship.<br \/>\nThe team celebrated with a ride through Main Street in Schomberg on the fire department\u2019s 1929 fire truck.<br \/>\nThe Bantam Express also earned gold, losing just one game in their finals weekend, held at St. Andrew\u2019s College.<br \/>\nAfter putting up just six losses in the regular season, the Bantams took down the Barrie Jr. Colts, Niagara North Stars, and Oakville Rangers en route to their provincial championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of York-Simcoe AAA clubs brought home the ultimate hardware at the AAA OMHA Championships last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16888","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\/03\/2017-03-30-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888","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=16888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}