{"id":20879,"date":"2018-06-13T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T03:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20879"},"modified":"2018-06-24T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T04:37:39","slug":"late-goal-sinks-aurora-fc-versus-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/late-goal-sinks-aurora-fc-versus-strikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Late goal sinks Aurora FC versus Strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just minutes away from a crucial point in the League1 Ontario standings, the Aurora FC women were sent home with their fourth loss of the season.<br \/>\nThe women entered Sunday\u2019s matchup just two points back of their opponent, the Woodbridge Strikers, looking to capture their first win since week three.<br \/>\nAurora veteran keeper Meghan Phillips was kept busy in the first half, forced to contend with six saves in the opening frame while conceding a pair of goals in the first six minutes of play.<br \/>\nAurora countered with a well-placed strike from winger Paige Murray in the sixteenth minute, sending one past an aggressive Woodbridge keeper from inside the box.<br \/>\nThe comeback was complete in the 81st minute of the match, when Cloey Uddenberg finished off a Samantha Murphy free kick in close, chipping home the tying goal.<br \/>\nWith both sides set to play to a tie and take home a point apiece, Woodbridge put on a late charge with just three minutes to go before stoppage time, firing one over Phillips into the top corner for the 3 \u2013 2 win.<br \/>\nThe women take their 1-4-0 record into a Saturday hosting of Unionville Milliken SC (2-1-2) at Stewart Burnett Park in Aurora.<br \/>\nThe Aurora men also failed to gain ground thanks to a second half slip-up on Sunday, falling 3 \u2013 1 to Alliance United FC to remain at the bottom of the table.<br \/>\nAurora\u2019s Maximillian Ferrari put the away side up by one early in the match at Centennial College, though Alliance countered with a header past keeper Ryan Collins less than five minutes later.<br \/>\nAlliance took the lead for good early in the second half, breaking through the Aurora defense down the middle for the game-winning goal, before adding an insurance marker in extra time for the 3 \u2013 1 win.<br \/>\nThe Aurora men will get an opportune chance for their first win of the season when they host the 1-4-1 ProStars FC of Toronto on Sunday.<br \/>\nKickoff is set for 4p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just minutes away from a crucial point in the League1 Ontario standings, the Aurora FC women were sent home with their fourth loss of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-14-07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879","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=20879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}