{"id":24619,"date":"2019-09-05T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24619"},"modified":"2019-09-12T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:21:26","slug":"under-11-akba-jays-reign-as-oba-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/under-11-akba-jays-reign-as-oba-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-11 AKBA Jays reign as OBA champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Under-11 Aurora King Jays are tops in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AA squad took to the fields in\nVaughan over Labour Day Weekend for the annual Ontario Baseball Association (OBA)\nchampionships, one of thousands of teams across the province competing in their\nrespective end of year tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A successful start in an 8 \u2013 5 win over\nthe Oakville A\u2019s to open the tournament Friday was the start of five straight\nwins for the Aurora King squad, the only team in the tournament to accomplish\nthe feat. They took down Oakville, Northumberland, Kitchener, Royal York, and\nHalton Hills on route to a finals berth against the Niagara Falls Falcons, in\nwhat would be a double-knockout round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An 11 \u2013 4 loss in the first game stalled\nAurora King\u2019s tournament title, yet a 15 \u2013 5 mercy rule win in Game Seven of\nthe tournament secured the championship and the coveted OBA ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The championship win is just the latest\nin a long list of accolades for the U-11 Jays after a successful season, having\ntaken home gold at the Newmarket Silver Bat tournament just over a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations go out to Noah Glenn,\nNoah Sutchy, Cale Williams, Parker Bifolchi, Matthew Burdo, Luciano Montanaro,\nLuca Cutajar, Colin Ellsworth, Romeo Waghmare, Lincoln Glover, Tyson Kushnir,\nas well as coaches Raj Waghmare, Mark Cutajar, Tim Glenn, Richard Glover, and\nPeter Bifolchi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Under-11 Aurora King Jays are tops in the province. The AA squad took to the fields in Vaughan over Labour Day Weekend for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24619","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\/09\/2019-09-05-02.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619","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=24619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}