{"id":17723,"date":"2017-07-05T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17723"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:35:03","slug":"aurora-fc-falls-to-durham-for-second-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-fc-falls-to-durham-for-second-straight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora FC falls to Durham for second straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A gaping hole in the Aurora FC women\u2019s roster left the semi-pro soccer team with a 3 \u2013 1 loss to Durham at the Pickering Soccer Complex on Saturday.<br \/>\nWith the absence of team-leading scorer Sarah Stratigakis, Aurora was blanked in the first half while allowing a goal just before the whistle to head to break down 1 \u2013 0.<br \/>\nTwo more Durham goals at the 49 and 62-minute marks dug the hole deeper for the visiting squad, who managed to get on the board in the 74th-minute thanks to Markela Beljeri\u2019s first of the season.<br \/>\nThe loss was the second in a row for the young Aurora squad, who strung together three wins throughout the month of June in three straight clean sheets.<br \/>\nHolding steady in the standings at eighth place with a record of 3-5-0, Aurora will look to climb the ladder when they host the last place Sanjaxx Lions at Highland Park in Aurora on Saturday.<br \/>\nGame time is set for 4 p.m.<br \/>\nThe men\u2019s side, whose Friday night matchup with ProStars FC of Brampton was postponed, return to action immediately following the women\u2019s match in a tough meeting with the 8-0-2 Sigma FC.<br \/>\nHolding a record of 1-7-1 good for seventh place in the eight-team East division, the men have been left with a clean sheet in their last two matches.<br \/>\nFor stats and schedules, visit www.league1ontario.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gaping hole in the Aurora FC women\u2019s roster left the semi-pro soccer team with a 3 \u2013 1 loss to Durham at the Pickering Soccer Complex on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723","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=17723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}