{"id":19780,"date":"2018-02-08T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=19780"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:42:09","slug":"panthers-lace-up-in-international-silver-stick-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/panthers-lace-up-in-international-silver-stick-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers lace up in International Silver Stick tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aurora rinks were buzzing with the best of the best in girls hockey over the weekend, hosting the annual International Silver Stick tournament.<br \/>\nA total of 56 teams competed across six divisions to earn the coveted trophy, in the largest youth hockey tournament in the world.<br \/>\nThe Bantam AA Panthers came the closest to tasting silver in their hometown tournament, playing in a massive 16-team division while going undefeated in the round robin.<br \/>\nA meeting with the Clarington Flames in Saturday\u2019s quarterfinal set up a date on Sunday morning with the Oakville Hornets, where Aurora came out on the wrong end of a tight 3 \u2013 2 score.<br \/>\nOakville went on to lose 4 \u2013 1 to North York in the afternoon\u2019s championship game.<br \/>\nThe Bantam As met a similar fate in their eight-team division, winning all three round-robin games before falling 3 \u2013 2 to the Barrie Sharks in the semifinal.<br \/>\nThe Atom A Panthers (Morning) also bowed out in their respective semifinal, 4 \u2013 1 to the Belleville Bearcats.<br \/>\nHonourable mentions go out to the Atom A Panthers (Barnett), Atom BBs, and Bantam BBs who competed well against the top teams in North America.<br \/>\nNow in its nineteenth year, the annual Silver Stick tournament in Aurora attracts over 1,000 spectators and athletes.<br \/>\nAs the Central York Girl\u2019s Hockey Association regular season comes to a close, the Aurora Panthers rep teams are preparing for playoff action.<br \/>\nSchedules will be posted at www.girlshockey-centralyork.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora rinks were buzzing with the best of the best in girls hockey over the weekend, hosting the annual International Silver Stick tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19780","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\/2018\/02\/2018-02-08-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780","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=19780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}