Isaac Cordova threw for 350 yards and four touchdowns, including the game-winner with three seconds left in the game, as Kent-Meridian pulled out a dramatic 35-28 North Puget Sound League Sound Division win over Thomas Jefferson at Federal Way Stadium last Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Royals (2-1 division, 3-4 overall) meet Mount Rainier (2-1, 2-5) for the division’s No. 2 NPSL crossover playoff berth Friday. Kickoff is 5 p.m. at Highline Stadium in Burien.<\/p>\n
Cordova connected with Jordan Wigfall on three scoring strikes, including a 33-yarder that tied the game with 2:02 left to play.<\/p>\n
The Royals recovered a fumble at the Raiders’ 33-yard line with 34 seconds remaining, setting up Cordova’s 25-yard, game-winning TD pass to Nate Jones.<\/p>\n
Jones finished with 10 catches for 151 yards.<\/p>\n
Aaron Tulloch scored on a 2-yard run for K-M.<\/p>\n
The Royals compiled 417 yards of offense.<\/p>\n
Charles Wight ran for 253 yards and a touchdown for the Raiders (1-3, 1-6).<\/p>\n
Elsewhere<\/strong><\/p>\n Kentwood 37, at Tahoma 6:<\/strong> Jalin Church ran for two touchdowns, leading the Conquerors past the Bears in an NPSL Mountain Division game in Maple Valley last Friday night.<\/p>\n Gabriel Johnson and Akil Brown each ran for scores, and Siolei Saokai returned a fumble 22 yards for another TD for Kentwood (2-2, 2-5).<\/p>\n Tahoma dropped to 1-3 and 3-4.<\/p>\n The Conks host Kennedy Catholic on Thursday.<\/p>\n At Auburn Mountainview 31, Kentlake 17:<\/strong> Sophomore Berkley Alfrey ran for 103 yards and a touchdown and Carson Klemetsen threw a TD to Jeremiah Penn as the Lions (2-1, 2-5) clinched an NPSL crossover playoff berth with a Valley Division win against the Falcons (1-3, 4-3) on Oct 11.<\/p>\n Auburn Mountainview erupted for 21 fourth-quarter points to seize the victory<\/p>\n Brandon Miguel returned an interception 78 yards for a touchdown and Teagin Child returned another 55 yards for a TD in the win.<\/p>\n The Lions finish the regular season at Hazen on Friday. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at Renton Stadium.<\/p>\n Lions (2-1 division, 2-5 overall) earned one of the Valley’s four playoffs spots to the league crossover playoffs Oct. 26-27. The Falcons (1-3, 4-3) remain in the hunt but need help to reach the postseason.<\/p>\n Kentlake faces Thomas Jefferson at 7 p.m. Friday at French Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kent-Meridian scores two touchdowns in the final two minutes to seize win <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":37192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37191","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\/37191"}],"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=37191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37191"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}