{"id":17422,"date":"2017-05-31T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17422"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:22:46","slug":"aurora-united-women-earn-first-win-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-united-women-earn-first-win-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora United women earn first win of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

All it took was one.
\nA late goal from Ellie Hayes made her the heroine in the Aurora United FC women\u2019s first win of the League 1 Ontario season, defeating the Woodbridge Strikers 1 \u2013 0 in their fourth game.
\n\u201cI think it\u2019s good for the girls to have a good performance today,\u201d said Aurora head coach Gianni Cimini.
\n\u201cThis is the fourth game and we finally got a victory. We were pretty tight in most of those matches but couldn\u2019t close the deal, and today we stuck with it and got there, in the eighty-seventh minute I think, and it was deserved. I think we hit a couple crossbars, so I was happy.
\n\u201cI think we tired out a little bit in the second half and obviously you\u2019re not going to control the whole game. There are two teams on the field and I think we managed that transition period where they were putting a little bit of pressure on us and in the end we ended up scoring the goal. It was a good game, it was an exciting game all the way through.\u201d
\nPatricia Koutoulas, also a keeper with the national Under-17 club, kept a clean sheet for the home side.
\nThe win vaulted Aurora over the Sanjaxx Lions out of the basement of the semi-pro league\u2019s standings, now tied with Durham, Toronto, and Woodbridge.
\nThey face FC London (2-1-0) at 4 p.m. on Saturday at St. Maximilian Kolbe field.
\nThe men\u2019s side of Aurora United followed with their second one-goal loss in a row, as they continue to search for their first win of the season.
\nAlso hosting Woodbridge, Luca Baldassarre was the only goalscorer in the 1 \u2013 0 match, finding twine in the 41st minute to preserve his team\u2019s perfect start to the season.
\nLosing midfielder Jackson Tooke to a red card in the first half and fielding only ten men, Aurora failed to find the opportunity to beat keeper Quillan Roberts.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s similar to last week against Masters when we had three or four good chances and I think everyone saw today we had the same,\u201d said head coach Derek O\u2019Keeffe. \u201cIf you score one of them, it\u2019s a different game. We went in at half-time and we were positive about what we were doing but we felt that we would get more chances.\u201d
\n\u201cHowever, when you lose a man against a team like Woodbridge, your back is always going to be against the wall.\u201d
\nDespite the outcome, O\u2019Keeffe said he was \u201cvery, very proud\u201d of his players.
\n\u201cThey gave me everything and they still kept the score line 1-0. We still kept our discipline. Obviously our attacking momentum had dwindled due to the player sent off, but they kept going right to the end. Woodbridge knew they had a game there tonight, they really knew they had a game.\u201d
\nThe men are winless through their first five games of the season, playing to a 0-4-1 record. They face a tough opponent in the 3-1-1 Vaughan Azzurri on Saturday at the St. Max field.
\nKickoff is set for 7 p.m.
\nFor stats and schedules, visit www.league1ontario.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All it took was one.
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