{"id":48211,"date":"2015-05-31T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=48211"},"modified":"2015-05-31T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T04:24:48","slug":"la-kiss-vs-jacksonville-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=48211","title":{"rendered":"The KISS are Sharkbit In the End"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ball and the winning touchdown were just out of reach of Donovan Morgan and the L.A. Kiss. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Anaheim) – Danny Southwick’s pass was intercepted at the three -yard line with no time remaining and the LA KISS fell to the Jacksonville Sharks 41-35 Sunday before 8,235 at Honda Center. It was the ninth consecutive loss for the KISS.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0KISS\u00a0got the ball back after making a stop\u00a0with 37 seconds left in the game and moved it down to the 20 yard line. But the Sharks’ Greg Reid pulled down Southwick’s pass to end it.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kiss defense got a couple of stops but the offense could not capitalize.<\/p><\/div>\n

The KISS found themselves down 21-0 right away. First\u00a0Jacksonville’s Tommy Grady threw a\u00a040 yard touchdown pass\u00a0to Anthony Jones. On the opening KISS possession, Alvin Ray Jackson picked off\u00a0Southwick and returned it 25 yards for a score.<\/p>\n

“The jack linebacker looked like he was originally moving left but then my vision was blocked. He was out of my sight,” Southwick said. “It was a bad decision on my part.”<\/p>\n

After another four and out by the KISS\u00a0the Sharks went up\u00a021-0 on\u00a0a seven yard scoring strike from Grady to Joe Hills.<\/p>\n

The KISS finally got on the board in the\u00a0second quarter on a two-yard run by JT Gilmore but the Sharks marched right back down the field\u00a0and scored on a Ray McNeil one -yard run.<\/p>\n

DeMarco Sampson responds for the KISS with a\u00a0four yard TD run and after a Jacksonville field goal attempt fails the KISS\u00a0go into the break down 28-14.<\/p>\n

The KISS took the\u00a0opening kick\u00a0in the second half and scored on a five-yard touchdown pass from Southwick to JT Gilmore to cut it to 28-21.<\/p>\n

But Jacksonville answers with a one-yard touchdown run by Derrick Ross\u00a0a 35-21 advantage.<\/p>\n

Donovan “Captain” Morgan pulled\u00a0in a one handed grab and\u00a0sprinted\u00a017 yards into the end zone late in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

The KISS then had a\u00a0golden opportunity to get even when\u00a0Ter’Ran\u00a0Benton picked off\u00a0 a pass but the\u00a0offense failed to\u00a0convert going four and out. Jacksonville\u00a0maintained a 35-28 lead.<\/p>\n

The KISS\u00a0defense again made a\u00a0stop on the ensuing possession but the offense couldn’t\u00a0take advantage and gave up the\u00a0the ball on downs.<\/p>\n

The Sharks then capitalized when Ross broke off a 24-yard touchdown run for a 41-28 lead. The extra point failed.<\/p>\n

A long kick off returns sets up the KISS and\u00a0Morgan hauled in a eight-yard\u00a0TD pass from Southwick\u00a0and suddenly LA was\u00a0down only six with 2:00 left.<\/p>\n

The stop set up the chance to win it but\u00a0the KISS was stopped in the final seconds.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to look at the tape. I want to see the tape and see what adjustments we can make and we’ll get ready for Portland,” said KISS Head Coach Bob McMillen.<\/p>\n

Southwick completed 27 of 46 for 245 yards and three touchdowns for LA. He was hurt by the two interceptions. DeMarco Sampson caught\u00a011 passes for 104 yards. Morgan had 10 receptions for 90 yards and\u00a0two scores.<\/p>\n

Grady finished 20 0f 33 for 223 and two TDs,\u00a0but he also threw two picks.<\/p>\n

The KISS fell to 0-9 with the loss while Jacksonville improved\u00a0to 5-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Anaheim) – Danny Southwick’s pass was intercepted at the three -yard line with no time remaining and the LA KISS fell to the Jacksonville Sharks 41-35 Sunday before 8,235 at Honda Center. It was the ninth consecutive loss for the KISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11299,11297,536,9379,9375,11152,11032,9909,2238,9924,11298,11300,9181,11301,9662],"class_list":["post-48211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football","tag-alvin-ray-jackson","tag-anthony-jones","tag-arena-football-league","tag-bob-mcmillen","tag-danny-southwick","tag-demarco-sampson","tag-derrick-ross","tag-donovan-captain-morgan","tag-honda-center","tag-jacksonville-sharks","tag-joe-hills","tag-jt-gilmore","tag-la-kiss","tag-terran-benton","tag-tommy-grady"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48211","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48211"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48239,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48211\/revisions\/48239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}