A heated and emotional exchange Friday night sent Kent-Meridian into an overtime battle against Kentwood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Despite Kent-Meridian’s strong showing, a missed extra point kick separated the South Puget Sound League North 4A teams, with the Royals falling 28-27 at French Field.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Brandon Systma scored on a 3-yard run in overtime and Min Park converted for the Conquerors (4-0 league) to secure the hard-fought win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Robert Nelson III’s 3-yard TD run gave the Royals (1-3) a short-lived 27-21 lead, but K-M missed its second extra point kick of the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Royals gave Kentwood fits with dual-threat quarterback Quincy Carter and Nelson III, who scored four short-yardage TDs on the night. On several occasions, Carter outmaneuvered and outran defenders on key downs. Nelson III consistently moved the ball.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Systma scored three TDs and Brian Campbell hit Devaugn Wells on a 7-yard scoring pass for Kentwood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Despite the stinging loss, K-M coach Brett Allen praised his team’s effort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kentwood takes on Kentridge at 7 p.m. next Friday at French Field. K-M hosts Spanaway Lake next Saturday at 7 p.m. at French Field.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Elsewhere:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kentridge 22, at Mount Rainier 0: <\/strong>The Chargers (1-2, 1-3) picked up their first SPSL North 4A win of the season but shutting out the Rams (0-4).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A heated and emotional exchange Friday night sent Kent-Meridian into an overtime battle against Kentwood. Despite Kent-Meridian’s strong showing, a missed extra point kick separated the South Puget Sound League North 4A teams, with the Royals falling 28-27 at French Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":2793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2792","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\/2792"}],"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=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}