{"id":17546,"date":"2017-06-14T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17546"},"modified":"2017-06-14T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:17:01","slug":"aurora-fc-seals-first-victory-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-fc-seals-first-victory-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora FC seals first victory in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Put it on the board for the Aurora United FC.
\nJust over six weeks into the semi-pro League 1 Ontario season, the men\u2019s side has put up their first win, striking a 2 \u2013 1 score over Toronto Skillz FC at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough on Sunday.
\nWith both sides looking for their first three-point game of the season, it was Aurora who struck just eleven minutes into the match when Jared Agyemang notched his second goal in five games, finishing to the far corner on Aurora\u2019s first shot of the game.
\nAgyemang was forced to substitute out after a hard collision just six minutes later, with only a pair of shots on goal for each squad in the remainder of the first half.
\nIt was Joe Tituana who stepped up for Aurora just four minutes into the second, who finished a well-placed pass by Calvin Witzell to double Aurora\u2019s lead.
\nToronto\u2019s Anhr El Eidani cut the lead in half in the second to last minute of regulation time, finally beating keeper Adam Scanlon with the home side\u2019s fifth shot of the game, matching Aurora\u2019s total.
\nBoth sides held their breath as the referee announced five minutes of stoppage time, though Aurora held on to the final whistle.
\nIt also took the budding team six games to find their first win in their inaugural season in 2016.
\nThe win pushes Aurora out of the basement of the men\u2019s standings, vaulting over the winless Toronto Skillz with a record of 1-5-1.
\nNext up is a meeting with Toronto FC III (4-2-1) at the Kia Training Ground in Toronto on Sunday, with kickoff set for 1 p.m. They return home the following Saturday to host North Mississauga in a twilight game at Highland Park in Aurora.
\nThe Woodbridge Strikers continue to lead League 1\u2019s tough East division with a record of 6-1-0.
\nThe Aurora men were also pushed out of League 1 Cup contention last week in a 2 \u2013 0 loss to FC London, an ongoing ladder-style tournament with single game eliminations.
\nThe women\u2019s side, fresh off a two-game winning streak, had the week off before returning to the pitch this Sunday against the Toronto Azzurri Blizzard (1-3-1).
\nFor stats and schedules, visit www.league1ontario.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Put it on the board for the Aurora United FC.
\nJust over six weeks into the semi-pro League 1 Ontario season, the men\u2019s side has put up their first win, striking a 2 \u2013 1 score over Toronto Skillz FC at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-15-09.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-4z0","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 15:49:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546","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=17546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}