{"id":17015,"date":"2017-04-12T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17015"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T21:10:35","slug":"york-simcoe-topples-lakeshore-in-league-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/york-simcoe-topples-lakeshore-in-league-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"York-Simcoe topples Lakeshore in League Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best of the best in the York-Simcoe Hockey League took on their Lakeshore Minor Hockey counterparts in Whitby on Saturday, coming out on top by the narrowest of margins.<br \/>\nRetaking bragging rights after Lakeshore decisively won the annual Challenge in 2016, York-Simcoe came out on top by a score of 46 \u2013 44 in the battle between two of the GTA\u2019s largest minor hockey leagues, winning ten series compared to Lakeshore\u2019s nine.<br \/>\nThe Atom AA Aurora Tigers, champions of York-Simcoe after a five-game series with the Markham Waxers in late March, claimed victory in a three-game series with the Whitby Wildcats.<br \/>\nAfter a decisive 4 \u2013 0 victory to start the day at Iroquois Park Sports Centre in Whitby, the home team took Game Two to send the series to a winner-take-all game. Aurora earned the two points for York-Simcoe with a 1 \u2013 0 win.<br \/>\nIn the Atom A battle, Aurora put up a pair of strong efforts against the Wildcats but eventually fell by scores of 2 \u2013 1 and 3 \u2013 1.<br \/>\nThe Wildcats also got the best of the Minor Bantam A Tigers, who after splitting the first two games of their series fell 1 \u2013 0 to the home team in the final game of the day.<br \/>\nOnline registration for the 2017-18 season has already begun. For a schedule of in-office registration dates, visit www.auroraminorhockey.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best of the best in the York-Simcoe Hockey League took on their Lakeshore Minor Hockey counterparts in Whitby on Saturday, coming out on top by the narrowest of margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17015","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\/04\/2017-04-12-09.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015","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=17015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}