{"id":20851,"date":"2018-06-06T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:57:05","slug":"minor-mosquito-jays-golden-in-bolton-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/minor-mosquito-jays-golden-in-bolton-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Mosquito Jays golden in Bolton tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It may still be spring, but Aurora-King\u2019s boys of summer have already picked up some hardware.<br \/>\nA monumental rally in the tournament semifinal provided enough of a spark for the Aurora-King Minor Mosquito Jays to earn the title of Bolton Braves tournament champions, in their first major test of the 2018 baseball season.<br \/>\nEntering play on Friday, the Jays quickly established themselves as contenders with a 16 \u2013 1 win over Thornhill, though they returned to earth on Saturday morning after blowing a 5 \u2013 0 lead over Mississauga to drop their second game 7 \u2013 5.<br \/>\nClosing out the round robin schedule with an explosive 23 \u2013 2 win over Whitby on Saturday afternoon, the Jays set up a meeting with Oakville on Sunday in the semis.<br \/>\nFalling behind 9 \u2013 0, Aurora-King rallied late in the game to earn their third double-digit score of the tournament in a 12 \u2013 9 win, setting up a date with the hometown Braves in the afternoon\u2019s final.<br \/>\nA back-and-forth affair left the Jays with the win, and the championship, by a score of 5 \u2013 4.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Aaron Chiola, Cale Williams, Mack Stewart, Parker Bifolchi, Matthew Burdo, Luciano Montanaro, Luca Cutajar, Colin Ellsworth, Romeo Waghmare, Lincoln Glover, and Tyson Kushnir on the early season success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may still be spring, but Aurora-King\u2019s boys of summer have already picked up some hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20851","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\/06\/2018-06-07-07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851","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=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}