{"id":18026,"date":"2017-08-09T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2017-08-09T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T21:39:10","slug":"aurora-fc-earns-first-clean-sheet-of-league-1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-fc-earns-first-clean-sheet-of-league-1-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora FC earns first clean sheet of League 1 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something had to give.<br \/>\nThe men\u2019s side of Aurora FC broke a six-game winning streak on Saturday when they earned their second win of the season, a 2 \u2013 0 shutout of ProStars FC of Brampton.<br \/>\nDespite the ProStars continuing to search for the first win of the season, the first<br \/>\nseventy-five minutes of the match was a stalemate. Aurora put pressure on the ProStars defense throughout the first half, though both teams went to the break without a shot on goal.<br \/>\nIt was Jared Agyemang that opened the scoring with just fifteen minutes to go in regulation time, his third of the season, taking advantage of a mistake by the goalkeeper that sent him the other way.<br \/>\nKaramvir Mehmi scored in stoppage time, sneaking one in from close range, in his season debut after just eight minutes on the field.<br \/>\nAdam Scanlon and Alexander Jakma split the time in goal to earn Aurora its first clean sheet of the 2017 season.<br \/>\nThe win is just the first step in a long journey to climb up the League<br \/>\n1 Ontario rankings, still ten points back of the sixth place Master\u2019s Futbol while sitting in seventh with a record of 2-11-1.<br \/>\nThey sit seven points up on the winless Toronto Skillz FC.<br \/>\nBack in action on Saturday at St. Maximilian Kolbe field, the men will be in tough when they host the 12-2-0 Oakville Blue Devils in a cross-division match, the leaders of the West division.<br \/>\nKickoff is set for 7 p.m.<br \/>\nFollowing a week\u2019s break in the schedule, the women\u2019s side will look to stay hot on Sunday against the 5-6-2 Woodbridge Strikers on the road.<br \/>\nA two-game winning streak has helped the women jump two spots in the League 1 rankings into a logjam at seventh-place, with just four points separating fourth from eighth.<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t return home until September 9 when they host Durham United FA at St. Maximilian Kolbe field.<br \/>\nFor stats and schedules, visit www.league1ontario.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something had to give.<br \/>\nThe men\u2019s side of Aurora FC broke a six-game winning streak on Saturday when they earned their second win of the season, a 2 \u2013 0 shutout of ProStars FC of Brampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-10-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","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=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}