{"id":11176,"date":"2014-10-19T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kentwood-stops-royals-secures-spsl-northeast-title-prep-football\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:45:36","slug":"kentwood-stops-royals-secures-spsl-northeast-title-prep-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-stops-royals-secures-spsl-northeast-title-prep-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentwood stops Royals, secures SPSL Northeast title | Prep football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kentwood jumped out to a big lead and never looked back in beating Kent-Meridian 38-7 to clinch the South Puget Sound League Northeast 4A title Friday night at French Field.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kalen Swain caught one touchdown pass and later returned an interception 51 yards for another score for the Conquerors (3-0 in the division, 6-0 overall).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kentwood retains the Claude French Trophy for another year.  The Royals last defeated their rivals in 1995.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Royals dropped to 3-1 and 5-2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Brian Campbell ran for one TD and found Swain for another. Isaiah Williams scooted 32 yards for a TD. Andre Slyter booted field goals from 26, 28 and 38 yards out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For Kent-Meridian, Gabriel Gallman ran 38 yards for a TD in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Conks made five interceptions and recorded a safety.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kentwood takes on Kentlake at 7 p.m. this Friday at French Field. The Royals travel to Mount Rainier (1-6) for a 7 p.m. Friday game at Highline Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Elsewhere:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Jefferson 29, at Kentridge 12:<\/strong> The Chargers dropped to 0-7 on the season with a loss to the Raiders (2-5). Kentridge hosts Tahoma (4-3) at 7 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>At Tahoma 49, Kentlake 14:<\/strong> Caleb Brown ran for three TDs and caught a fourth as the Bears beat the Falcons (3-4). Cody Folckner scored on a 55-yard run and Trey Helgeson connected with Matt Burley on a 90-yard scoring play for Kentlake.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentwood jumped out to a big lead and never looked back in beating Kent-Meridian 38-7 to clinch the South Puget Sound League Northeast 4A title Friday night at French Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}