This time the Raiders were doing the routing.

Thomas Jefferson picked up its first football win of the year Friday by a 52-7 score over Kent-Meridian, after taking a beating in its past games. The Raiders improved to 1-6 overall with the lopsided win under rainy conditions at Federal Way Memorial Stadium.

“It’s about time,” said TJ head coach Dean Peck. “It’s also special when it’s homecoming.”

It was a soggy but happy bunch of royalty that ascended the Raiders’ throne, and it was the Royals who had a truly miserable night as they took a beating on the field.

It took work for TJ to accomplish the feat.

“We were just working on stuff we were not doing right,” said Peck of the practices leading up to the game. “Tonight it all came together.”

Keagen Giles led the Raiders’ running game by gaining 87 yards on 22 carries, while Michael Salle gained 67 yards on 10 carries and scored two touchdowns.

Quarterback KW Williams completed 9 of 14 passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions to provide the aerial game.

The Raiders scored their first touchdown at the end of a monstrous 14 play drive in the first quarter. It began at the TJ 33-yard line and concluded on a 2-yard keeper for a touchdown by Williams. McKay Owsley kicked the extra point and the Raiders were up 7-0.

Ryan Scuderi then recovered an onside kick for TJ that bounced over a Kent-Meridian player’s head, allowing the Raiders to take possession only 37 yards from paydirt.

Kent-Meridian wound up getting the ball back on downs at the 20, but the Raiders kept the Royals' backs to the wall and forced a punt that they recovered 42 yards out.

TJ scored four plays later, when Williams threw to his right to Jonny Volland and he evaded players and sprinted to a 27-yard touchdown. A K-M player jumped in front of him on the catch, but Volland went around him before he came down and took off for the touchdown.

Kent-Meridian closed the lead to 14-7 with an 80-yard run by BJ Arceneaux, but Scott Sanford of the Raiders answered by returning the ensuing kickoff 88 yards for a touchdown. He went up to the crowd of players that were pursuing him and popped through, then turned on the speed.

Williams passed to Giles for a two-point conversion and a 22-7 lead with 1:39 left before halftime.

Williams opened the scoring in the second half, finding Sanford open for a 31-yard touchdown. A pass for two points fell incomplete, but the Raiders scored again after Spencer Hicks pounced on a fumble 22 yards out. Two plays later Sallee struck on a 5-yard touchdown.

Volland recovered a loose ball in the end zone to make it a 40-7 game, and after K-M got the ball at the 1-yard line the hike for a punt went through the end zone for a safety and two points.

The Royals then had to make a free kick at the 20 on the safety, and TJ returned it to the 42. Five plays later, Owsley kicked a 29-yard field goal to make it 45-7.

The Raiders set up their final touchdown when Ian Tougher recovered a fumble at the 32.

Sallee scored on an 8-yard run and Owlsey’s kick brought the lead to its final 52-7 margin.