{"id":9860,"date":"2015-02-19T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T05:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:44:06","slug":"toughest-challenge-of-the-season-lies-ahead-for-mustangs-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/toughest-challenge-of-the-season-lies-ahead-for-mustangs-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Toughest challenge of the season lies ahead for Mustangs basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>St. Maximilian Kolbe\u2019s Junior boys basketball team will be looking to put together a Cinderella story of their own in YRAA playoff action this week.<br \/>\nA win in the first round has the Mustangs up against Middlefield Collegiate Institute of Markham, the overwhelmingly dominant team in York Region basketball.<\/p>\n<p>St. Max, meanwhile, has turned an unimpressive pre-Christmas season into a promising one.<\/p>\n<p>Following a 0 \u2013 2 start to the season, the Mustangs turned around to win four of their remaining six games and finish with a respectable .500 record.<br \/>\nGood for fifth place in the Tier 2 East Division, they crossed over to play St. Elizabeth of the West, who were riding a hot streak of two consecutive victories to close out the season.<\/p>\n<p>In an impressive offensive display, the Mustangs strung together 66 points in the contest, a season high.<\/p>\n<p>They will now face off against the Middlefield Silver Hawks on the away court, an undefeated team that averaged 68 points-per-game during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Action takes place Friday at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jake Courtepatte St. Maximilian Kolbe\u2019s Junior boys basketball team will be looking to put together a Cinderella story of their own in YRAA playoff action this week. A win in the first round has the Mustangs up against Middlefield Collegiate Institute of Markham, the overwhelmingly dominant team in York Region basketball. St. Max, meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/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-9860","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\/9860","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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}