{"id":20737,"date":"2018-05-31T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20737"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:09:08","slug":"barbarian-women-rush-to-perfect-start-to-owl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/barbarian-women-rush-to-perfect-start-to-owl-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarian women rush to perfect start to OWL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Aurora Barbarian first women are picking up right where they left off.<br \/>\nAurora\u2019s representatives in the top-tier Ontario Women\u2019s League played to a 2 \u2013 0 record to open the season after an eight-try effort against the Toronto Scottish at Fletcher\u2019s Fields on Thursday, putting up a 55 \u2013 24 win after a heavy-scoring second half.<br \/>\nThe win came just four days after a whooping of the Markham Irish in the season opener, where Aurora rode fourteen tries to an 86 \u2013 0 shutout.<br \/>\nThe 2017 OWL finalists are tied atop the leaderboard with the Toronto Saracens, who have also opened to a 2 \u2013 0 record.<br \/>\nThe women return to the field on Saturday to take on the 1 \u2013 1 Toronto Nomads.<br \/>\nThe Aurora men were able to pick up their first win of the season following a slow start, riding three tries to a 23 \u2013 14 win over the Barrie RFC on Thursday.<br \/>\nBoth the Barbs and the Ajax Wanderers take a 1 \u2013 1 record into their 3 p.m. matchup at Fletcher\u2019s on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aurora Barbarian first women are picking up right where they left off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20737","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\/2018-05-24-0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737","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=20737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}