{"id":19913,"date":"2018-02-22T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=19913"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:28:00","slug":"panthers-teams-in-hunt-for-lower-lakes-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/panthers-teams-in-hunt-for-lower-lakes-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers teams in hunt for Lower Lakes championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An impressive eight Aurora Panthers squads have moved on to the second round of the Lower Lakes Female Hockey League playdowns.<br \/>\nThe Midget A Panthers, the highest level of play to move on to the quarterfinals, earned their ticket to the second round last week with a pair of shutout wins over the Vaughan Flames. A scoreless road tie against the North York Storm and a 2 -1 loss at the Aurora Community Centre on Thursday has the Panthers against the ropes in their best-of-three series.<br \/>\nIn Midget BB, the Panthers have taken a 1 \u2013 0 series lead with a 3 \u2013 1 win over the Scarborough Sharks in game one of their matchup, fresh off a 5 \u2013 1 drubbing of the Markham-Stouffville Stars to reach the second round.<br \/>\nThree Bantam teams find themselves still competing, with the Bantam As and the Bantam BBs each battling the Etobicoke Dolphins, while the Bantam Bs fell 3 \u2013 1 in their first game of a series with the Orillia Hawks.<br \/>\nThe PeeWee A Panthers are up against the Whitby Wolves and find themselves in a 1 \u2013 0 hole, while the Atom A\u2019s are yet to begin their matchup with their respective Wolves squad.<br \/>\nThe Atom BBs round out the playoff competition with a second round series against the Barrie Sharks, winning game one 2 \u2013 1 before falling in game two 2 \u2013 0 to send the series to a third and deciding game.<br \/>\nFor schedules, visit www.girlshockey-centralyork.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An impressive eight Aurora Panthers squads have moved on to the second round of the Lower Lakes Female Hockey League playdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19913","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\/2018-02-22-10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19913","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=19913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}