{"id":20652,"date":"2018-05-16T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20652"},"modified":"2018-05-16T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:38:40","slug":"aurora-fc-women-snag-first-win-of-league-1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-fc-women-snag-first-win-of-league-1-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora FC women snag first win of League 1 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Aurora FC women\u2019s side is off on the right foot.
\nAfter failing to find the back of the net in their League 1 season opener in late April, the women charged back to Stewart Burnett Park on Saturday for a commanding 3 \u2013 0 win over the Toronto Azzurri Blizzard.
\nAurora dominated the play through the opening minutes against the winless Toronto squad, scoring the game\u2019s first goal at just the three-minute mark when Markela Bejleri was set up perfectly inside the box.
\nReturning from the half still up 1 \u2013 0, it was Bejleri again who notched the game\u2019s second goal in the second\u2019s opening minute, finishing off the play from six yards out.
\nSamantha Murphy found the top right corner late in the match to secure the victory, a one-sided match that saw a shot differential of 10 \u2013 4 in favour of Aurora.
\nVeteran goalkeeper Meghan Phillips earned her first clean sheet of the season.
\n\u201cProud to get our first win of the season,\u201d said Phillips. \u201cGreat way to come back after a hard-fought loss in our first game.\u201d
\nWhile Toronto freefalls down the women\u2019s ladder with their third-straight loss to open the season, Aurora moves to 1-1-0 to stay competitive in the expanded thirteen-team league with three of a possible six points.
\nThey next face the new Hamilton United Elite on the road on Saturday, one of two teams that remain undefeated through three games.
\nThe men\u2019s side of Aurora FC remains in search of its first win of the season, squandering a late second half lead on Sunday despite a long man advantage against the Vaughan Azzurri.
\nAurora keeper Ryan Collins stood on his head throughout the first half, making a number of key saves including a penalty kick in the 43rd-minute to keep the game scoreless at the whistle.
\nGoing the entire first half without a shot on net, Aurora took advantage of a Vaughan red card early in the second to drop their team down to ten men, with Jordale Byers opening the scoring for Aurora.
\nDown a man for the remainder of the match, Vaughan\u2019s decision to change formation paid off in notching the tying goal only a few minutes later, before putting home the winner past Collins with just over ten minutes to play.
\nDespite failing to record a win so far this season, Saturday\u2019s match was Aurora\u2019s first loss of the year, previously putting up a pair of ties.
\nThey bring a record of 0-1-2, good for two points, into their next match against the Oakville Blue Devils at Stewart Burnett Park on Sunday.
\nKickoff is set for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Aurora FC women\u2019s side is off on the right foot.
\nAfter failing to find the back of the net in their League 1 season opener in late April, the women charged back to Stewart Burnett Park on Saturday for a commanding 3 \u2013 0 win over the Toronto Azzurri Blizzard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-05-17-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5n6","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 10:02:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20652","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=20652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}