{"id":18499,"date":"2010-05-17T10:33:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/defense-powers-kent-predators-to-indoor-football-league-win-against-fairbanks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:45:27","slug":"defense-powers-kent-predators-to-indoor-football-league-win-against-fairbanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/defense-powers-kent-predators-to-indoor-football-league-win-against-fairbanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense powers Kent Predators to Indoor Football League win against Fairbanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defense scored three touchdowns to help lead the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentpredators.com\">Kent Predators<\/a> to a 42-26 win over the Fairbanks Grizzlies in a professional Indoor Football League game May 14 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showare.center.com\">ShoWare Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators ended a three-game losing streak, improved to 4-6 and moved into third place in the five-team Pacific North Division. Second-place Fairbanks dropped to 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>Kent defensive lineman John Fields recovered a fumble and returned it for a touchdown and also blocked a field-goal attempt that enabled teammate Frank Connell to recover the ball for another score.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive lineman Manase Hopoi set up Kent&#8217;s first score when he sacked quarterback Justin Rummell to force a fumble that lineman CJ Niusulu recovered for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Kleckner kicked three field goals for the Predators and Dre&#8217; Mail Hardin returned a missed field goal 53 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Kent quarterback Charles McCullum completed 4 of 13 passes for 39 yards with no touchdowns. McCullum rushed seven times for 11 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators led 28-23 at halftime and 28-26 after three quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Kent does not play this week. The Predators play the Billings Outlaws at 7:30 p.m. May 29 at the ShoWare Center. The Outlaws lead the division with an 8-1 record.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets, go to www.showarecenter.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense scored three touchdowns to help lead the Kent Predators to a 42-26 win over the Fairbanks Grizzlies in a professional Indoor Football League game May 14 at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":5643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499"}],"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=18499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}