{"id":1438,"date":"2009-10-08T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/cross-country-k-m-knocks-off-kentwood\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T07:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:35:32","slug":"cross-country-k-m-knocks-off-kentwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/cross-country-k-m-knocks-off-kentwood\/","title":{"rendered":"CROSS COUNTRY: K-M knocks off Kentwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent-Meridian boys got it done Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Behind big performances from senior D.J. Jigre and Matt Bailey, the Royals turned back Kentwood 28-29 on the three-mile course at Clark Lake in a pivotal South Puget Sound League North Division dual meet.<\/p>\n<p>Though one meet remains, the Royals (5-0) sealed at least a tie for the SPSL North crown, which will be Kent-Meridian\u2019s first in any sport since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>As he has done all season, Daigre led the way, blistering the three-mile course in 17-minutes, 17 seconds. Junior Matt Bailey, in his first year of cross country, wasn\u2019t far behind, taking second by breaking the tape in 17:27.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Massimino delivered Kentwood\u2019s fastest time, taking third with a time of 17:39.<\/p>\n<p>Kent-Meridian\u2019s 1-2 finish behind Jigre and Bailey proved to be too much for the Conquerors, who added fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth-place finishes. Behind Massimino, Kentwood sophomore Danny Lunder (5th place, 17:42) was the Conquerors next highest finisher.<\/p>\n<p>Kent-Meridian can win the SPSL North outright on Wednesday, when it hosts Auburn at French Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent-Meridian boys got it done Wednesday afternoon. Behind big performances from senior D.J. Jigre and Matt Bailey, the Royals turned back Kentwood 28-29 on the three-mile course at Clark Lake in a pivotal South Puget Sound League North Division dual meet. Though one meet remains, the Royals (5-0) sealed at least a tie for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}