{"id":17267,"date":"2017-05-17T11:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17267"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:56:49","slug":"aurora-jays-win-big-over-ivy-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-jays-win-big-over-ivy-leafs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Jays win big over Ivy Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The senior Aurora Jays rebounded from an opening loss with a statement 11 \u2013 2 win over the Ivy Leafs on Sunday.<br \/>\nWith the Leafs\u2019 first two games of the season postponed, Daniel Lehmkuhl took advantage of a stale Ivy squad when as only the second batter of the game he sent a two-run shot to left centre.<br \/>\nFrom there they never looked back, battling challenging winds which manager Rob Wilson said the team \u201cmanaged well.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBetween the quick start and solid pitching, the game was always in our hands.\u201d<br \/>\nRobert Spencer got his first start on the mound, going five strong innings for the Jays and earning the win.<br \/>\n\u201cWe left a lot of runners on against Bolton last week, so it was a good bounce back game for us to cash in some runs,\u201d said Wilson.<br \/>\nThe Jays had lost 5 \u2013 2 to the Brewers at Lambert Willson Park on Tuesday, who returned to the NDBL after a two-year stint in the AAA Greater Toronto Baseball League.<br \/>\nWith a total of ten runners reaching base, only Lehmkuhl and Aaron Giroux were able to cash in, while a three-run home run by the Brewers off pitcher Andrew Bukovec in the top of the seventh inning broke open a 2 \u2013 1 game.<br \/>\nDevon Wu started the game on the mound for the Jays, putting up five innings of two-run ball while striking out five.<br \/>\nA 1 \u2013 1 record has the Jays in the middle of the pack after the first week of play, with only the Clearview Orioles and Creemore Braves maintaining a 2 \u2013 0 record.<br \/>\nThe Jays hit the mound Wednesday following press time to visit the Brewers in a rematch, and get their first look at the Ivy Rangers Thursday night, who moved up to the senior ranks from the junior league in the offseason.<br \/>\nFirst pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. at Victoria Park in Ivy.<br \/>\nA busy week in the NDBL continues with the annual Victoria Day tournament in Lisle this weekend.<br \/>\nFor stats, schedules, and more information, visit www.ndbl.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior Aurora Jays rebounded from an opening loss with a statement 11 \u2013 2 win over the Ivy Leafs on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267","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=17267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}