{"id":1939,"date":"2014-11-08T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2014-11-08T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T00:46:14","slug":"no-11-widener-thumps-kings-55-6-on-senior-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"No. 11 Widener thumps King’s, 55-6, on Senior Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was quick, and it happened in a flash.\u00a0It took all of 13 seconds before Widener was on the board.<\/p>\n

Quarterback, Seth Klein, read the defense and aired out a 58-yard touchdown pass to Montrell Hicks-Taylor on the first play of the game, and Widener never looked back. The No. 11 Pride went on to win Saturday’s contest, 55-6, dropping the Monarchs to 3-6.<\/p>\n

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Widener\u00a0racked up 525 yards of total offense on a very balanced attack. Klein passed for 291 yards on an efficient 14-21, spreading the wealth out to 10 different receivers. Chris Wickes lead the rushing\u00a0attack with 59 yards and two stops to the end zone.<\/p>\n

King\u2019s, in large part, played very one-dimensional. Running back Kyle McGrath found it very difficult to find holes behind his underachieving offensive line. The senior, who is coming of a stellar performance last week against Delaware Valley, was only able to run the ball for 37 yards.<\/p>\n

Tyler Hartranft threw the ball for 278 yards and one score, but was picked off twice, one going the distance for a Pride touchdown. He was also sacked five times in the losing effort.<\/p>\n

It was the\u00a0last time the Monarchs seniors will play a game at McCarthy Stadium, a day that preseason All-American Dan Kempa won’t forget following a shoulder injury that sidelined him for part of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coach Knarr was not sure about the extent of Kempa\u2019s injury. \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d Knarr said, but he did add that it was a good sign to see the senior participate on the activities after the game with his fellow upperclassmen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey really are the soul of our program\u201d is what Knarr said about his entire senior class.<\/p>\n

Knarr continued saying\u00a0that Widener was by far the best team his squad has seen all year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they are the prohibited favorite,\u201d Knarr said about Widener’s tough matchup against Del-Val next week.<\/p>\n

King\u2019s will take on crosstown rival Wilkes next week for the Mayors Cup at 12 p.m. at Wilkes. Wilkes is 2-7 on the year, so this year\u2019s games only implication will be which rival school wants it more.<\/p>\n

Vito Malacari covers King\u2019s sports for WRKC Digital, follow him on Twitter\u00a0@VitoMalacari23<\/a>\u00a0or email him at VitoMalacari841@Kings.edu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was quick, and it happened in a flash.\u00a0It took all of 13 seconds before Widener was on the board. Quarterback, Seth Klein, read the defense and aired out a 58-yard touchdown pass to Montrell Hicks-Taylor on the first play of the game, and Widener never looked back. The No. 11 Pride went on to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrkc.kings.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}