{"id":39689,"date":"2014-06-21T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39689"},"modified":"2014-06-21T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T05:21:19","slug":"kiss-gets-rattled-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39689","title":{"rendered":"KISS Gets Rattled in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=37695\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37695\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LA-KISS.jpg\" alt=\"LA KISS\" width=\"262\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>PHOENIX, Ariz.\u00a0\u2013 \u00ad\u00ad\u00adHoping to become the first team to defeat the Arizona Rattlers (14-0) in 335 days, the LA KISS (3-10) came up short in the desert Saturday night, 83-47.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Nick Davila threw for 373 yards and eight touchdowns, with Rod Windsor hauling in five of those scoring tosses, to help Arizona reach an all-time AFL-best 14-0 start. Donovan Morgan led the KISS with 11 catches for 133 yards and three touchdowns in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles kicked off the scoring with a touchdown pass from Aaron Garcia to Samora Goodson for the early lead. Arizona bounced right back with Windsor\u2019s first touchdown catch of the evening to knot up the score at 7-7. Kenny Guiton, responded on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and goal from the 1-yard line, finding Morgan in the back of the end zone for a 14-7 KISS lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Rattlers\u2019 offense became nearly unstoppable from that point on, as Davila and Tysson Poots connected on two consecutive scoring passes to give Arizona a 21-14 advantage. LA pulled within a point after a 27-yard Garcia missile found Morgan in the end zone. However, Arizona answered immediately with a scoring strike to Maurice Purifoy for a 28-20 lead. Two more touchdown receptions by Windsor, the last coming in the final seconds of the half, gave Arizona a comfortable 42-20 lead heading into the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona continued to roll in the second half, scoring on an Alex Singleton rushing touchdown on its first series after the break. The KISS broke the 28-0 run with another touchdown catch by Morgan to cut the deficit to 49-27, but the red-hot Davila hooked up with Windsor on touchdown passes of 43 and 45 yards, respectively, to increase the gap to 62-27. Although Brandon Thompkins and Raymond Radway combined for three late scores, Arizona managed the 83-47 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, the KISS will play the first of two straight home games when they battle the Spokane Shock, June 28 at the Honda Center. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. (PDT). Single game tickets are still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/ticketmaster.com\/\">ticketmaster.com<\/a> or the Honda Center box office.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about LA KISS visit <a href=\"http:\/\/lakissfootball.com\/\">lakissfootball.com<\/a> or call 714-462-KISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX, Ariz.\u00a0\u2013 \u00ad\u00ad\u00adHoping to become the first team to defeat the Arizona Rattlers (14-0) in 335 days, the LA KISS (3-10) came up short in the desert Saturday night, 83-47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6086,9726,9724,9584,9368,2238,9856,9181,9881,9727,9882,9879,9857,9569,9880],"class_list":["post-39689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football","tag-aaron-garcia","tag-alex-singleton","tag-arizona-rattlers","tag-brandon-thompkins","tag-donovan-morgan","tag-honda-center","tag-kenny-guiton","tag-la-kiss","tag-maurice-purifoy","tag-nick-davila","tag-raymond-radway","tag-rod-windsor","tag-samora-goodson","tag-spokane-shock","tag-tysson-poots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39690,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689\/revisions\/39690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}