Kentwood High’s Kiana Kraft has been a bit hesitant with her shot selection on the soccer pitch this fall.
On Tuesday night at French Field, however, Kraft finally let it rip. The results were pretty much what Kentwood fans have come to expect from the two-time all-league midfielder. The junior standout found the back of the net twice, both times unassisted, scoring in the 57th minute and again in the 79th minute, leading the Conquerors past Kentlake 2-0 in a South Puget Sound League North Division match between top teams.
Opportunity knocked and the Kentwood High football team answered last Saturday night at French Field.
Federal Way, 1-2 in league play, bolted out to a 21-0 lead and never looked back in knocking off Kentlake, 2-2, in a 49-14 victory in a South Puget Sound League, North Division game.
Lou and Diane Tice’s 5-year-old Assessment, winner of three stakes including the $300,000 Longacres Mile, was voted Emerald Downs Horse of the Meeting for the 91-day live racing season that concluded Sunday.
Koala Beach took an eight-length, gate-to-wire triumph into the winner’s circle in the $75,000 Gottstein Futurity for 2-year-olds at Emerald Downs Saturday.
Ace and Jim belatedly began his career, but the 5-year-old gelding is making up for lost time quickly.
FOOTBALL SCORES: Live updates from French Field of the Tahoma-Kent Meridian game
Toutlelew moved leading rider Ricky Frazier a step closer to a new single-season riding record with a three-length victory Thursday in the Stanislaw Ashbaugh Purse for older horses at Emerald Downs.
The Kentwood and Tahoma boys gold teams went at it on the greens at Meridian Valley Country Club Thursday.
The Kentlake High girls soccer team has had its way in the early going this season, churning out four straight wins.
Tuesday night at Maxwell Field, the Falcons hit a bit of a wall.
Falcons look to challenge South Puget Sound League North foes for division title while Conquerors start off the season with their first win over Kentridge in seven years
The Bears win their second SPSL North meet of the season over the Ravens Tuesday. Auburn Riverside also swam against Kentlake.
Trainer Charles Essex and jockey Jose Zunino will receive special awards when Emerald Downs completes its 14th season of thoroughbred racing next week.
The consistent gelding Tarage staged a strong rally and scored a head victory Sunday over long shot King Congo in the featured Budweiser Purse.
Jasmine’s Melody powered to the lead in mid-stretch and drew off for a nearly four-length victory Saturday in the feature race for fillies and mares at Emerald
Kentwood quarterback Tristan Askew felt the butterflies. But it hardly showed Friday night at Maxwell Field, when the gritty senior…
Medicine Creek rallied furiously for a three-quarter-length victory over Sharper Eagle in Friday’s featured Michael’s Toyota Purse for 3 year olds and up at Emerald Downs.
Kentwood travels to Tahoma to play at 7 p.m. Friday.
Kentwood is 1-1 and Tahoma is 2-0.
Tyler Phippen, a senior at Tahoma High School, earned a spot on the Junior Olympic Taekwondo team at a team trial fight off at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Aug. 22.
Favorites: Kentwood, AR. • Contenders: Tahoma, Jefferson, Federal Way. • Sleepers: Kentlake, Kentridge. • Playoff picture: The top three teams…
