{"id":31597,"date":"2022-07-09T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=31597"},"modified":"2022-07-09T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T16:33:16","slug":"14u-barbarians-take-home-first-place-at-fletchers-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/14u-barbarians-take-home-first-place-at-fletchers-field\/","title":{"rendered":"14U Barbarians take home first-place at Fletchers Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 14U Aurora Barbarians took home first place in their division at the Great North 7\u2019s held at Fletchers Field in Markham this past Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a round-robin style tournament, each team played each other once in their division and whoever held the best record took home the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barbs took on Barrie in the final game of the day on Saturday. Each team came into this bout with a 3-0 record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barbs left it all out on the field and the boys thrashed Barrie 26-5 to take home the silverware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Rugby 7\u2019s, teams play two seven-minute halves to determine a winner. Games are fast-paced and extremely intense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U14 boys kicked off their tournament with a dominant 50-0 victory over the Caledon Cavaliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boys went on to defeat Southwest 31-7 and the Barr Scottish 38-0 before defeating Barrie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were four teams from the Barbs in total taking part over the weekend. As coach with the Barbs, Khalil Ajram alluded that it was a fairly successful weekend overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur U14 girls did well. They went 2-2 and nearly missed out playing in the finals. That was the first time we had a U14 girls team too, so they had great success,\u201d Ajram said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur senior women went to the finals and lost to a Kingston team that had three national players on it. They\u2019re stacked. It was pretty intense but it was good they played well. We had a few girls play for the U18 Toronto Reds and they won it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had great success in club and players playing for players representing teams in tournament. The tournament itself had 40 teams and 500 players.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aurora Barbs senior men\u2019s team was also in action and unfortunately the men went 0-3 in their division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senior women\u2019s team who lost to Kingston, fell 42-0, after opening the tournament with a 34-10 victory against roots, a 31-12 loss to Kingston earlier and a 29-14 over the Vikings to bring them to the final game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajram said this tournament was a preview for the July Summer Games coming up between July 23-26. He confirmed, Aurora will have five or six players playing on the Toronto teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, between August 3-5, there is the Ontario U18 girls playing at the Canada Summer Games at Brock University in St. Catherines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He expects eight to 10 players taking part in the next level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Belardi<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 14U Aurora Barbarians took home first place in their division at the Great North 7\u2019s held at Fletchers Field in Markham this past Saturday. In a round-robin style tournament, each team played each other once in their division and whoever held the best record took home the trophy. The Barbs took on Barrie in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8dD","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 21:04:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31597","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=31597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}