{"id":9388,"date":"2014-12-23T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:24:41","slug":"aurora-tigers-atom-ae-team-wins-silver-stick-regional-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-tigers-atom-ae-team-wins-silver-stick-regional-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Tigers Atom AE team wins Silver Stick Regional Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Submitted by Chris MacEachern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Aurora Tigers Atom AE team entered the Silver Stick Regional Tournament this month with the goal of earning a spot in their fourth consecutive tournament championship game. <\/p>\n<p>The team, winners of the Orangeville Early Bird Tournament, had also delivered successive second place finishes in both the Motown Cup and the Bradford Blue &#038; Gold Classic, respectively.  <\/p>\n<p> The Tigers opened the Silver Stick Regional Tournament with a close win over the Richmond Hill Stars followed by hard-fought victories over the Innisfil Winterhawks and the Georgina Blaze. <\/p>\n<p>In the semi-final game, the team emerged victorious over a skilled Markham Waxers squad, setting up a championship game between the #1 seed, Aurora Tigers, and the #2 seed, Newmarket Redmen.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly competitive final, the Tigers and Redmen battled from whistle to whistle, back and forth. Spurred on by vocal fans and an unwavering focus on teamwork, the Tigers won a tight championship game, 2-1. With the victory, the team was accepted into the International Silver Stick Finals in Pelham, scheduled for January 8 \u2013 11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aurora Tigers Atom AE team entered the Silver Stick Regional Tournament this month with the goal of earning a spot in their fourth consecutive tournament championship game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9388","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\/2014\/12\/2014-12-25-09.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388","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=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}