{"id":39970,"date":"2014-07-12T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T00:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39970"},"modified":"2014-07-12T23:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:39:34","slug":"kiss-fall-to-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39970","title":{"rendered":"KISS Fall to Thunder"},"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>The LA KISS (3-13) fell to the Portland Thunder (5-11) 44-31 Saturday night\u00a0at the Moda Center in Portland in Week 18 of the 2014 AFL season.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Thunder struck first on a 2-yard rush by Darron Thomas (kick by Ramirez is good). A few possessions later, Portland quarterback Kyle Rowley connected with Jamar Howard on an 11-yard pass (failed kick). The Thunder took an early lead 16-0 (7:04). However, Los Angeles was able to put some points on the board before the end of the quarter on a 5-yard pass from Garcia to Radway (kick by Spencer is good).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A completed pass from Rowley to McNeil for the touchdown would open up the second quarter (kick is good). Then, on back-to-back touchdowns, LA KISS was back in the game. The first score came on a 20-yard pass from Garcia to Morgan and the second, Garcia connected with Goodson on a 10-yard pass. Both Spencer&#8217;s kicks were good. With just 51 seconds left in the half Ramirez puts in a 29-yard field goal to finish out the quarter (21-23) Thunder lead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An 18-yard field goal by Spencer was the only score in the third quarter. But Portland came out firing in the fourth with three consecutive touchdowns. First, Garcia was sacked for a loss of 5-yards and Bryce Peila recovered a forced fumble for a touchdown (12:17). The second score came on a 22-yard pass from Rowley to McNeil (24-37) and the third, another connection from Rowley to McNeil. Ramirez&#8217;s kicks are good putting the score at 24-44 (1:54) left in the game. But the KISS were not going down without a fight. Morgan pulled down a 46-yard touchdown pass from Garcia (kick is good), bringing the final score to 31-44 (00:39).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next week Los Angeles hosts the San Antonio Talons for &#8220;NET10 Wireless Arena Football Saturday&#8221; on Saturday, July 19 at 7 p.m. (PDT) on CBS Sports Network in Week 18 of the 2014 AFL Season. Single game tickets are still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/ticketmaster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.com<\/a> or the Honda Center box office. For more information about LA KISS visit <a href=\"http:\/\/lakissfootball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lakissfootball.com<\/a> or call 714-462-KISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA KISS (3-13) fell to the Portland Thunder (5-11) 44-31 Saturday night\u00a0at the Moda Center in Portland in Week 18 of the 2014 AFL season.<\/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":[9399,9181,9372],"class_list":["post-39970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football","tag-arena-footbal-league","tag-la-kiss","tag-portland-thunder"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39970","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=39970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39972,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39970\/revisions\/39972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}