{"id":22916,"date":"2019-02-07T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:07:53","slug":"bantam-aa-panthers-runners-up-in-home-silver-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/bantam-aa-panthers-runners-up-in-home-silver-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantam AA Panthers runners-up in home Silver Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Add it to the trophy case: it\u2019s yet another podium finish for the Aurora Panthers as hosts of the International Silver Stick tournament.<br \/>\nThe Bantam AA Panthers rode a perfect preliminary round into Saturday\u2019s quarterfinal games at the Aurora Community Centre, getting the best of the Mississauga Chiefs, Kingston Ice Wolves, and Guelph Jr. Gryphons along the way.<br \/>\nAfter putting out the fire against both the Vaughan and Clarington Flames in the quarter- and semi-final rounds by scores of 2 \u2013 1, the Panthers met the Nepean Wildcats in Sunday\u2019s final, where they fell by a close score of 4 \u2013 3 to earn the tournament\u2019s silver medal.<br \/>\nIn the Atom AA division, then Markham-Stouffville Stars blanked the Oakville Hornets 2 \u2013 0, while the Atom A Mississauga Chiefs got the best of the Smiths Falls Cubs 3 \u2013 2.<br \/>\nThe Stratford Aces were the queens of the Bantam A division, beating the Clarington Flames by a score of 2 \u2013 1, while the Bantam BB division had the St. Clair Shores U14 best the Brantford Ice Cats 4 \u2013 3.<br \/>\nAll in all, 52 teams from across Canada and the United States competed in the three-day tournament, spread between the Aurora Community Centre, Stronach Aurora Rec Complex, and St. Andrew\u2019s College\u2019s LaBrier Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add it to the trophy case: it\u2019s yet another podium finish for the Aurora Panthers as hosts of the International Silver Stick tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22916","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\/2019\/02\/2019-02-07-09.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","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=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}