{"id":18048,"date":"2014-03-06T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T05:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/garfield-rips-kentridge-boys-in-state-basketball-tourney\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T02:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T09:15:30","slug":"garfield-rips-kentridge-boys-in-state-basketball-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/garfield-rips-kentridge-boys-in-state-basketball-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield rips Kentridge boys in state basketball tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Garfield crushed Kentridge 63-41 in the opening round of the Hardwood Classic high school boys state basketball tournament Thursday at the Tacoma Dome.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>An initial seven-point run from Garfield, of Seattle, knocked Kentridge off its game, and the Chargers never quite recovered. Garfield led the Chargers 34-12 at halftime. The Bulldogs outscored Kentridge 17-2 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Put on the defensive, the Chargers were forced into taking more risks than normal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Things that we normally do didn&#8217;t work for us,&#8221; said Kentridge coach Dave Jamison. &#8220;The speed of the game made us rush our decision making. It was an 11-10 game and then it was a 17-10 game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Jawan Stepney led Kentridge with 13 points. Hussayn Ford added eight points and Nick Hopson scored five. Tramaine Isabell had 21 points for Garfield.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Bulldogs advanced to the semifinals against Issaquah. Kentridge plays Jackson of Mill Creek in a fourth-place semifinal game at 12:15 p.m. Friday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garfield crushed Kentridge 63-41 in the opening round of the Hardwood Classic high school boys state basketball tournament Thursday at the Tacoma Dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":18049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18048","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\/18048"}],"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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}