Vernon Word scored two touchdowns, the first of which snapped a scoreless tie in the second quarter, and Nathan Proctor notched a pair of second-half TDs as the King County Jaguars rolled to a 42-0 victory against the Valley Mustangs a North American Football League game at Auburn Memorial Stadium.
After erasing portions of the Kentridge High School record book and earning Class 4A State Player of the Year honors, Renado Parker is taking his basketball talent to North Idaho College.
Rui Li, who stars for the Kentwood High golf team, won the girls 16-17 age division with a 1-under-par 71 in the final Washington Junior Golf Association District Six sub-district tournament last Monday at Lipoma Firs Golf Course in Puyallup.
A list of recreational events happening in Kent.
They dreamed big.
But Chuck and Elena Stowell never imagined things would snowball quite like they have.
Or in such magical fashion.
The Kent couple lost their only daughter, Carly, on April 12, 2007 of an acute cardiac arrhythmia. Just days away from her 15th birthday, Carly collapsed in a North Carolina hotel room while at a tournament with her select AAU basketball team, the Emerald City Legends.
A biting sense of humor pulled her through.
Because during even the most difficult of times in what was supposed to be the finest volleyball season of her already strong prep career, Alison Fairchild always had that on which to fall back.
Even when she couldn’t fall back on the one thing she once unknowingly counted on the most: her left knee.
• EVENT: 21st Annual Schuck’s Auto Supply NHRA Nationals, the 14th of 23 events on the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series.
Gary Densham says one of the three biggest days of the year in Northwest – along with Seafair weekend – is when the NHRA comes to Pacific Raceways in Kent.
She’s only 2, but Super Dixie already is making her mark at Emerald Downs.
It wasn’t what the King County Jaguars had in mind for the third annual Cornucopia Bowl.
Quarterbacks become head coaches. Linemen become head coaches. Kickers?
They don’t usually become head coaches.
Mike Astley would love nothing more than to give that stereotype the boot.
Wasserman added the latest chapter to his remarkable story with a thrilling nose victory over Call On Carson in the $50,000 Governor’s Handicap on Sunday at Emerald Downs.
Sarah Stockwell fell short of one goal, but easily achieved another one during the United States Olympic swim trials last week in Omaha, Neb.
It was one of those moments everyone has. That moment when an idea clicks, the mental light globe goes on, and you hear yourself saying, “Now why didn’t I think of that before?”
For Kent’s Jerry Schmidt, it might not have been precisely that way back in 1983. But it sure was close.
Jeff Bernard put Kent into the unlimited hydroplane winner’s circle on Sunday.
Fresh off a 44-7 rout of the Kitsap County Bears in their season opener, the King County Jaguars will play host to the British Columbia Spartans in the annual Cornucopia Bowl minor league football on Saturday at French Field.
They started out 20 years ago playing basketball together in a Kent Parks Department league. And they’re still playing.
Then, they decided to form a softball team. And they’re still playing that in Kent, too.
And guys such as Glenn Watkins, Rich Marlow and brothers Steve and Mike Redmond don’t see the end in sight.
The Northwest Warriors, a Kent-based team that draws players from Kent, Auburn and Enumclaw, has earned a trip to the Continental Amateur Baseball Association World Series.
