{"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. 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