{"id":20533,"date":"2018-05-02T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20533"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:41:52","slug":"under-13-avengers-shoot-to-ontario-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/under-13-avengers-shoot-to-ontario-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-13 Avengers shoot to Ontario championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We the North.<br \/>\nThe Under-13 York North Avengers rode a perfect 3 \u2013 0 record to an Ontario Cup win in Milton last weekend, meeting a fellow York rival in the winner-take-all final on Sunday.<br \/>\nOpening the eight-team tournament in a high-scoring affair with Guelph on Friday, the Avengers rode a 58 \u2013 57 win into a perfect 2 \u2013 0 Saturday, knocking off the team from Kitchener-Waterloo  44 \u2013 38 before beating the Grimsby Grizzlies 48 \u2013 34.<br \/>\nThat set up a meeting with the York South Silver Knights, the only other team to bring a perfect record into the final day.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Silver Knights were a tough opponent,\u201d said coach Casey Emery, who added that around \u201c90-percent\u201d of the York North team hailed from Aurora.<br \/>\nThe Avengers got off to a hot start, putting up fourteen straight points to open the game thanks to seven-for-nine shooting on their field goal attempts.<br \/>\nFrom there, Emery said the Avengers \u201cnever looked back\u201d, taking the game and the Ontario Championship by a score of 48 \u2013 42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We the North.<br \/>\nThe Under-13 York North Avengers rode a perfect 3 \u2013 0 record to an Ontario Cup win in Milton last weekend, meeting a fellow York rival in the winner-take-all final on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20533","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\/05\/2018-05-03-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533","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=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}