{"id":9456,"date":"2015-01-07T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:25:09","slug":"minor-bantam-aas-fall-in-finals-of-home-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/minor-bantam-aas-fall-in-finals-of-home-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Bantam AAs fall in finals of home tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minor Bantam AA Tigers put on quite a show in front of a home crowd last week, finding success in the Aurora Minor Hockey Association\u2019s (AMHA\u2019s) 46th annual Minor Bantam\/Bantam Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The team opened the tournament against the West Mall Lightning, taking them down 4 \u2013 2 before disposing of the Whitby Wildcats 3 \u2013 1 later that day.<br \/>\nThey completed their round-robin matchups with a 7 \u2013 0 victory the next day over the Sudbury Copper Cliff Redman, who they met once again in the semi-finals due to team points.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora continued their shutout streak, and punched their tickets to the finals with a decisive 5 \u2013 0 win.<\/p>\n<p>The finals saw another matchup against Whitby, however this time it was the Wildcats that would hold off the Tigers offensively.<br \/>\nWhitby took the game, and the tournament, 2 \u2013 1.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bantam AA Tigers were shut out in their respective semi-final matchup, 1 \u2013 0, by the Niagara Falls Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>For information on upcoming schedules, tournaments, and minor hockey news, check out www.auroraminorhockey.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minor Bantam AA Tigers put on quite a show in front of a home crowd last week, finding success in the Aurora Minor Hockey Association\u2019s (AMHA\u2019s) 46th annual Minor Bantam\/Bantam Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","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=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}