SPOKANE, Wash. – Kiss a golden opportunity goodbye.

Two costly fumbles and a misplayed kickoff sent the LA KISS to a 13th consecutive Arena Football League loss Friday night – to an opponent that’s been nearly as hapless this season.

Warren Smith, making his first AFL start, threw for six touchdowns and ran for another to lift the Spokane Shock to a 68-46 victory in front of 7,906 fans at the Spokane Arena. It is the Shock’s second win in six games.

But that’s a significant step up from the KISS, which dropped to 0-7 and suffered yet another setback at quarterback when starter Matt Bassuener broke his throwing hand in the fourth quarter.

“We’re back at square one trying to find a quarterback for next week,” KISS coach Bob McMillen said.

“If you don’t have good quarterback play, it’s tough to win in this league, and I think Matt was just starting to get the offense. Another bad break. Now we’ll have to find somebody who can help us out.”

It was Bassuener’s early play that gave the KISS some hope.

He led the KISS on two crisp scoring drives to open the game, hitting Donovan Morgan on a 31-yard touchdown pass and later plunging in from 2 yards.

The Shock answered both – the first with a 52-yard kickoff return by upback Sergio Gilliam after KISS coverage had mostly run past him. Then, things began to cave in on the KISS, as they have repeatedly this season.

“Our guys are fighting, but they’re frustrated,” McMillen said. “And I know our ownership is frustrated, too. But eventually things are going to snap for us, and it’ll turn.”

Spokane kicker Taylor Rowan knocked a kickoff off the low bar and straight into the hands of Shock receiver Nick Truesdell, who stiff-armed a teammate and ran into the end zone from eight yards out for a lead the Shock would never relinquish.

Bassuener had the KISS right back in position to tie, but he fumbled at the Spokane 7-yard line and James Ruffin recovered. Six plays later, Truesdell collected a short pass from Smith over the middle and pivoted away from Shaine Boyle of the KISS on a 43-yard touchdown play that made it 27-14.

The crusher came midway through the second quarter – a Bassuener fumble in the end zone that Micah King fell on for a 41-20 Shock lead.

The KISS’ last real chance to climb back into the game came late in the third quarter, still down two touchdowns, with the Shock facing fourth down at midfield. But somehow receiver Mike Washington wound up uncovered behind Boyle and Carlton Brown for the third of his four touchdown catches.

Bassuener completed 25 of 39 passes for 307 yards and five touchdowns before his injury, with Morgan snagging 11 balls for 177 yards and three scores.