{"id":21116,"date":"2018-07-11T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2018-07-11T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:21:03","slug":"keeper-battle-leads-to-scoreless-draw-for-aurora-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/keeper-battle-leads-to-scoreless-draw-for-aurora-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeper battle leads to scoreless draw for Aurora FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

With plenty of chances on both ends, Aurora FC and West Ottawa each had chances to put away their League1 matchup for good with just one strike.
\nYet it was the goalkeeping that stole the show, pitting West Ottawa\u2019s keeper against the tandem of Aurora\u2019s Meghan Phillips and Quinn Josiah, resulting in a scoreless draw on Saturday.
\nJosiah opened up strong in the first half in stopping all four shots on target, before Phillips filled in for the final 45 minutes to earn Aurora its second clean sheet of the season.
\nThe scoreless draw could not come at a more fitting time: Phillips and West Ottawa keeper Mollie Eriksson were named recently as the last line of defense for League1 when they take on Canada\u2019s Soccer Regional Excel (REX) program this week, pitting the best of the League1 women against Canada\u2019s cream-of-the-crop.
\nLeague1 Ontario Commissioner Dino Rossi said the matchup will be \u201ca good test\u201d to become an \u201cannual fixture in the schedule.\u201d
\n\u201cThis match provides a useful measuring stick for many of our best U20 women as the REX Ontario side that they will be squaring off against features many of the top young female players in the Canadian Youth National Team system, some of who just helped Canada qualify for the next U17 World Cup,\u201d said Rossi.
\nPhillips willed by joined by teammates Chloe Chefero, Markela Beljeri, and Souyama Bouak on the pitch for League1.
\n\u201cIntroducing a \u201cYoung Stars\u201d game is something we have been wanting to do for a while and we are happy to have this opportunity for our top U20 players in the women\u2019s division,\u201d he said, adding that he hopes to introduce a similar style event for the men\u2019s side in the future.
\nThe Aurora men returned to the pitch for their regular season schedule on Sunday for the first time since earning their first win of the season in mid-June, yet returned to the losing end in a 1 \u2013 3 effort against the Woodbridge Strikers.
\nAurora goalkeeper Adam Scanlon was busy throughout the match, making a number of key diving stops to keep his team close, yet three goals in just over a half hour in the second half proved to be the sinker.
\nThe road side\u2019s only goal of the match came in extra time when Dylan Rennie was taken down inside the box, resulting in a penalty kick he sent swiftly into the bottom corner of the Woodbridge net.
\nWith losses in five of their last six dating back to mid-May, the Aurora men remain three points up on the Windsor TFC for the bottom of the League1 ladder.
\nThey take on the 2-3-1 Darby FC on the road on Friday, before returning home to host North Mississauga on July 29.
\nThe Aurora women next visit with North Mississauga at the Hershey Centre on the same date.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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