The loss extended Milton’s losing streak to four games and dropped them below the .500 mark at 5-6-1. Milton now sits fifth in the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s 10-team MacKinnon Division.

Aurora jumped on the Hawks for a 2-0 first-period lead in Sunday’s game but Kevin Caister got Milton on the board early in the second. A little over three minutes later Justin Basso tied the game with a power-play marker.

Friday the Hawks faced the defending champion Oakville Blades for the second time in eight days. Again Milton spotted their opponents an early lead as Oakville took a 3-0 advantage into the second.

Caister and Ricky Buehler gave the Hawks some hope with goals in the first four minutes of the period to climb within one. However, Oakville would restore the lead to two just 25 seconds later.

The Blades’ Brendan Taylor, playing his first game since rejoining the team from the OHL, scored his second of the game early in the third to make it a 5-2 advantage.

Tyler Stothers would round out the scoring for the IceHawks before Oakville put the game away with an empty-net goal.

Breaking the streak won’t get any easier for Milton this weekend. The Hawks face the division’s top two teams, hosting Burlington Friday at Memorial Arena and playing in Georgetown Saturday. Both games are 7:30 p. m. starts.