Kentlake hosts Auburn at French Field for a high school football action.
The Reporter newspapers prep football rankings through week six.
Kentwood and Kentlake meet tonight in a battle of top football teams in the South Puget Sound League North at 7 p.m. at French Field.
In this new age of instant gratification in cyberspace, most young people don’t realize the lasting effects their virtual lives can have on their real lives, and it’s a lessons many are learning the hard way.
Educators and cybersafety experts are working with kids to teach them the importance of taking a moment to think about what may happen if they put every thought that pops into their head out on the Internet.
It’s no secret that I hate the color pink.
True, I have come to see it as a neutral color since my daughter Lyla arrived almost two years ago, but still it’s not a color I have in abundance in my wardrobe.
Much like the playground bully that generation after generation of children have endured, young people today endure cyberbullying in silence, not knowing how to deal with it or what to do when they see someone else victimized.
Former Kentlake High School math teacher Barbara Jeanne Anderson was sentenced to eight months in jail for first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor, according to King County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Dan Donahoe.
Facebook and cell phones are the communication vehicles of today’s teenagers.
Jason Fiorito is fighting a war where victory means keeping his business, Pacific Raceways, operating.
It's a war which has multiple fronts.
Pacific Raceways is like a second home for funny car driver Tim Wilkerson as well as Maple Valley native Brad Plourd.
Wilkerson won his third straight Northwest Nationals on Sunday while Plourd, who has relocated to Indiana but still has family here, won in the Super Comp category in Sportsman at the National Hot Rod Association’s 24th Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nationals.
In fact, Wilkerson had not lost a round at Pacific Raceways since 2007, but this is his first trip to the winner’s circle this season.
The Kentlake High fastpitch team was able to cross another goal off of its list Saturday afternoon.
The Falcons, behind several standout performances, throttled Rogers 13-2 for the Class 4A West Central/Southwest District title at Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway. With three banners down — North Division, South Puget Sound League and West Central/Southwest District champions — Kentlake now has its eyes on the biggest prize.
"That's our goal, to get to the championship game on Saturday," said Kentlake coach Greg Kaas.
Kentlake isn't known for playing small ball, but on Friday night that's what earned the Falcons another fastpitch league championship banner.
In fact, Kentlake had a stretch of four games with a combined 50 runs scored, so the 4-0 victory over Spanaway Lake in which not a single run was earned for the South Puget Sound League crown was a bit out of character.
Erika Smyth thought for sure the home run she hit in the bottom of the fourth Tuesday afternoon wasn't getting out of the infield.
Instead, it carried over the center-field fence at Kentwood to give Kentlake a 4-0 lead in a first-place tiebreaker game against Tahoma.
Turnabout is fair play, just ask the Kentlake High fastpitch team, which beat Tahoma 5-2 on Thursday night.
This came little more than 24 hours after Tahoma beat Kentlake 6-5.
"I don't think we ever had a doubt it would turn out differently," said Kentlake catcher Brittany Styger.
This time last year, Kentwood diver Jesse Dehnert wasn't even competing at the Class 4A state boys swim and dive championships.
What a difference a year makes.
At the end of Saturday, Dehnert was wearing a seventh-place medal having tallied 314 points.
Tanner Keeling-Garcia likes to fly in the water and in the skies.
Keeling-Garcia, a junior on the Kentlake boys swim and dive team, is on the verge of getting his private pilot’s license but is also one of the Falcons’ strongest swimmers.
School records were falling left and right at the Class 4A state swim meet Nov. 12-13 at the King County Aquatic Center.
Emily Tanasse from Kentlake broke her own record in the 100-yard butterfly three times over the weekend.
The Kentwood High volleyball team split its matches at the West Central District 4A volleyball tournament last Friday and Saturday, but still managed to punch its ticket to a seventh straight Class 4A state berth.
The Kentlake High girls swim team delivered another good day in the pool at Rogers High in Puyallup Oct. 29-30, grabbing a third-place finish in the Class 4A West Central District.
The Kentlake High girls swim team swam fast at the South Puget Sound League meet on Saturday, Oct. 23.
But the Falcons firmly believe that they can, in fact, swim faster than they did at Rogers High.
