Tyler Cowan’s sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning scored the eventual game-winning run as Kentwood defeated Kentlake 5-4 in a North Puget Sound League Cascade Division game at Hogan Park at Russell Road Park on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Conquerors moved to 7-3 in league, 8-7 overall. The Falcons remain in first place at 8-2, 11-5 overall. Kentlake won the first game of the home-and-home series 6-2 last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Cowan’s sac fly brought home Nate Franceschina, who led off the inning with a double.<\/p>\n
Ty Collins, Jackson Proctor and Raheem Rivera each had an RBI for Kentwood.<\/p>\n
James Spickelmier, in relief of starter Nick Musga, three five shutout innings, striking out 11 and walking six, to earn the win. Spickelmier, Musga and Wyatt Hansen combined on a five-hitter.<\/p>\n
Reliver Anthony Elston took the loss.<\/p>\n
Drew Biggerstaff drove in two runs for Kentlake.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere<\/strong><\/p>\n Kentridge 9, at Hazen <\/strong>2:<\/strong> Trent Jackson homered and Cameron Denny had three doubles and drove in two runs as the Chargers (7-3, 11-3) beat the Highlanders(2-8, 5-10) in an NPSL Cascade game Monday.<\/p>\n Kentridge is on a seven-game winning streak.<\/p>\n Jordan Rourke doubled and drove in two runs. Cameron Hoiland and Lucas Turk, who doubled, each had an RBI for the Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conquerors move within a game of division-leading Falcons <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":40134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40133","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\/40133"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40133"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}