King's Knights make it to football semi-finals

Shoreline's Kings High School Knights football made it to the semi-finals in Class 1A state quarterfinals.

The King’s Knights erased six years of frustration last Saturday with a 42-21 victory over Hoquiam in the Class 1A state quarterfinals. 

Or as the Knights referred to it, the “third round.” 

After making it to the quarterfinal round in each of the the past six seasons — and losing each time — the Knights decided they were going to eliminate the word “quarterfinal” from their collective vocabulary and simply call the game “the third round.” 

One can debate whether the linguistic game plan was a factor in last week’s victory, but the end result is that the Knights (11-1) get to play in the fourth round — or as it’s more commonly referred to, the semifinals.

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