Kentwood couldn’t find the net in the first half against Auburn on the soccer pitch at French Field Monday night.

The Conquerors more than made up for it in the second half when they scored repeatedly in a 4-0 victory over the Trojans.

And with a little help from Tahoma Monday night, coupled with its win, Kentwood moved into first place in the South Puget Sound League North division.

Conquerors sophomore midfielder Min Park started the scoring off three minutes, 15 seconds into the second half popping a rebound into the net.

With 19:19 left on the clock, Hunter Pyne lobbed a penalty kick from out nine yards out into the goal, bending it up and over the wall of Auburn defenders into the left side of the net.

Ivan Manzano took a ball from Dakota Maslowski as he ran up the right side of the field and put it in far post to make it 3-0 Kentwood.

With under four minutes left in the contest Sean Denby was in the right place at the right time in front of the Auburn goal when he scored for Kentwood putting an exclamation point on the victory.

Kentwood improved to 5-0-2 in South Puget Sound League North and remained in second place play while Auburn dropped to 4-2-2.

Later on Monday Tahoma traveled to Jefferson, which was in first place in the division before the contest began, and the Raiders quickly showed the Bears why they had the lead.

Jefferson scored two goals in the first half, one at the 19 minute mark by Louis Alvaro Osornio on a ball from Tyler Hamashima, next Brandon Madsen had an unassisted goal at the 29 minute mark.

But just a minute into the second half Logan Young put the ball into Jefferson’s net.

Madsen answered for Jefferson with a goal off a pass from Charles Yi just seven minutes later.

The Bears didn’t give up, though, and scored three straight goals to put together the come from behind win.

Logan Young nailed a penalty kick, then Billy Miller scored off a ball from Chad Blenz at the 68 minute mark, then Jordan Downing put in the winning goal with five minutes left in the contest.

It was the reverse of Tahoma’s previous match against Kentlake at home on March 30 which the Bears won 4-0.

Young put Tahoma on the board first with a penalty kick with about 13 minutes left in the first half.

In the second half, the Bears came out firing against the Falcons, with Mac Henderson starting things off when he drilled it past Kentlake’s keeper to make it 2-0.

Tahoma was aggressively attacking Kentlake’s defense and spent much of the game pushing to the goal.

On the third penalty kick of the night for Tahoma, Young put in his second goal of the contest, putting Tahoma up 3-0 with about 21 minutes left on the clock.

The Bears put the final nail in the coffin when Sean Owens sent a ball across the field to Blenz who took it and headed it into the net to make it 4-0.

Kentlake bounced back from that loss on Monday night with a 3-2 victory on the road against Mount Rainier.

Dillon Emtman took a pass from Jacob Grabkowski while Brian Shelton scored with an assist from Greg Gorden and then Shelton got an assist on a goal by Preston Slane.

Through play Monday Kentwood is in first, Jefferson is in second place in the North at 5-1-1, Tahoma moved into third at 5-2-0 while Auburn dropped to fourth at 4-2-1 and Kentlake improved to 3-3-1 while in fifth place.

Kentlake will host Jefferson Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., after the Reporter goes to press, while Kentwood travels to Tahoma and Auburn plays Kentridge at 7:30 p.m. at French Field.