{"id":2160,"date":"2012-01-11T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kentwood-holds-off-tahoma-kentlake-has-first-league-win-girls-basketball\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:35:46","slug":"kentwood-holds-off-tahoma-kentlake-has-first-league-win-girls-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-holds-off-tahoma-kentlake-has-first-league-win-girls-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentwood holds off Tahoma, Kentlake has first league win | Girls basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">Kentlake\u2019s girls basketball team picked up its first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spsl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Puget Sound League North Division<\/a> win of the season thanks to a put back by Alyssa Simonson Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">It has been a rough season for Kentlake,  which put together a 43-42 victory over Thomas Jefferson at home, as it  tallied its second win overall \u2014 its first win came in a tournament in  Wasilla, Alaska, in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Simonson had 13 points on the night while Stephanie Luce led the Falcons with 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Falcons were down 35-33 at the start  of the fourth quarter to the Raiders and with 2 minutes, 30 seconds  left, trailed 41-35.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/high-schools\/kentlake-falcons-(kent,wa)\/girls-basketball\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kentlake<\/a> didn\u2019t give up.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Simonson made a free throw to make it  41-37 then Paige Engeland drained a three ball to cut the lead to 41-40.  Engeland finished with five points.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">With 36.5 seconds left Luce made one of two free throws to tie it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">A few seconds later Jefferson made the  front end of a one and one to take the one point lead before Simonson\u2019s  heroics put Kentlake ahead for good as the Falcons outscored the Raider  10-7 in the final period.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">On the other side of the division, Tahoma  traveled to Kentwood, where the Conks raced out to a 10-0 lead in the  first quarter over the Bears.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">But Tahoma pulled within two at the half,  25-23, thanks to three pointers from Jordan Eberhardt and Kymber  Morrison as the Bears outscored the Conquerors 18-11 in the second  period.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Conquerors seemed to make the  necessary adjustments at halftime to defend the hot shooters, holding  the Bears to just four points in the third period.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Tahoma fought back in the fourth quarter, outscoring Kentwood 19-12, but it wasn\u2019t enough and the Conks won 56-46.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Morrison led Tahoma with 16 points while Eberhardt finished with 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Maddison Rankin poured in 14 points, Alycea DeLong tallied 11 and Jenny Johnson posted nine points for Kentwood.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">With the win, Kentwood improved to 7-2 in league, while Tahoma dropped to 4-4.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Mount Rainier has a hold on first place  after beating Kentwood last week, as the Rams are still undefeated (8-0,  12-0), while the Conks are in third place behind Auburn Riverside in  the North. The Ravens are the only other team the Conks have lost to in  the division.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Tahoma is in fifth place behind Kentridge with 10 games left on the league schedule as of Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This week, Kentlake heads to Kentwood,  while Tahoma hosts Auburn on Tuesday. On Friday, Kentwood travels to  Auburn, Tahoma hosts Mount Rainier and Kentlake has the night off.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentlake\u2019s girls basketball team picked up its first South Puget Sound League North Division win of the season thanks to a put back by Alyssa Simonson Jan. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"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-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"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\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}