{"id":57552,"date":"2022-05-25T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-high-enters-state-fastpitch-tournament-as-top-seed\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:37:12","slug":"kentwood-high-enters-state-fastpitch-tournament-as-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-high-enters-state-fastpitch-tournament-as-top-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentwood High enters state fastpitch tournament as top seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentwood High School has a 20-0 record and is the top-seeded team in the Class 4A state fastpitch softball tournament May 27-28 at Merkel Sports Complex in Spokane.<\/p>\n<p>The Conquerors will seek their first title since 1985. They have made eight trips to state, the most recent in 2018 when they didn&rsquo;t place.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood opens against 16th-seeded Hanford at noon Friday, May 27. The other top seeds include No. 2 Jackson, No. 3 Skyview, No. 4 Puyallup and No. 5 Skyline.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood won the NPSL title and the district tournament. The Conquerors have outscored their opponents 175-22.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore pitcher Sarah Wright leads Kentwood with a .500 batting average and an ERA of 0.30, according to MaxPreps.com. She also has 26 RBIs, 24 runs and six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Senior outfielder Lauren Rivera is batting .485 with 26 runs. Junior third baseman Sarah Rothenberger is batting .444 with 27 RBIs, 25 runs and six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Wright had a huge game as Kentwood beat Skyview 6-0 in the Class 4A West Central\/Southwest bi-district championship game. She threw a no-hitter with 18 strikeouts, hit two home runs and batted in five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conquerors record 20-0; play May 27-28 in Spokane <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":57553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57552"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57552"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}