After allowing an early Nebraska-Omaha goal, Fort Hays State men’s soccer scored the next three, winning 3-1 over the Division I opponent on Friday (Oct. 14) on the road in Omaha, Neb. The game was a battle of first year programs as the Mavericks also added soccer this season.

The win was the first over a Division I opponent in the Tigers first game ever against that level. With the win the Tigers upped their record to 8-2-1 on the season and increased their unbeaten streak to eight games, including four straight wins.

The Tigers’ only senio Travis Patzner scored FHSU’s first goal and his first of the season to tie the game at 1-1 at 13:06. The Patzner goal came from 10 yards away in the center of the box.

The scoring ceased until 53:45 when Tigers leading scoring Ricardo Yeverino, who was tied for 13th in Division II before today’s game, buried a shot to the low left corner of the goal, giving the Tigers a 2-1 advantage and Yeverino goal No. 11 on the season. Diego Cabral’s pass set up the goal.

The Tigers were not done offensive. Tomas Mares continued his hot play, scoring at 71:52 to increase the FHSU lead to 3-1. The goal was Mares fourth in the last three games. Cabral notched his second assist of the game on the goal, bringing his season total to eight, a team high.

The host Mavericks got on the scoreboard early, tallying their lone goal at 5:41 on a shot by Vance Rookwood from 18 yards out.

The Tigers return home for a three-game homestand. In the first of the three home games, FHSU welcomes Oklahoma Wesleyan on Tuesday (Oct. 18) to the FHSU Soccer Stadium for a 4 p.m. kickoff.

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The Fort Hays State Tigers allowed a late goal with less than two minutes left in the game, falling 2-1 to No. 12 ranked Central Missouri on Thursday night (Oct. 13) at the FHSU Soccer Stadium.
 
The Jennies scored first in the 29th minute on an Alyssa Rhodes header off a pass from Carly Stanley. The score remained 1-0 in favor of UCM at the end of the first 45 minutes.
 
The Tigers notched the equalizer in the 66th minute on a header by junior Cindy Benitez, her fourth goal of the season. Benitez knocked in a rebound off a shot from Jamie Babyak, who was credited with the assist on the goal.
 
After a back-and-forth physical end game, the contest looked like it was headed to overtime; however, the visiting Jennies tallied the game winner at 88:34. Becky Lackey scored on a long pass from Alyssa Rhodes for the 2-1 final score.
 
The Tigers were just the fourth team this season to score a goal on the No. 12 UCM team. FHSU dropped to 4-8-1 on the season and 1-5 in MIAA play.
 
Fort Hays now travels to Northwest Missouri State on Saturday (Oct. 15) at 11 a.m. in Maryville, Mo.

Fort Hays State football coach Chris Brown held his weekly news conference Tuesday evening following practice. The 2-4 Tigers are coming off a 38-17 loss at home to then No. 8 Pittsburg State.

FHSU hosts Central Missouri this Saturday night in a regionally televised game on the MIAA Television Network (Eagle Cable Channel 15). Kickoff is at 6pm with the Fort Hays Auto Sales Pregame Show at 5pm on Tiger Radio Mix 103.

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The Fort Hays State women’s golf team closed out the fall on a high note, winning the Park University Invitational in Parkville, Mo., on Tuesday (Oct. 11). The Tigers sat in second place after the first round, three strokes back of Grand View University, but roared past GVU on Tuesday for a 12-stroke win. The tournament was at The Deuce at the National Golf Course, a par-70 layout.

Samantha Nielsen led the tournament after the first day with her lowest round of the year, a 74. She slipped to a second place finish, but still shot in the 70’s with a 79 on day two. Ana Laura Gomez of Bellevue University jumped Nielsen for the individual title, shooting 73 on the second day. She was just two strokes back of Nielsen entering the second day after a first round 75.

The Tigers had two more top 10 finishers, including Jordan Nixon, who tied for seventh and Samantha Hobson, who tied for ninth. Nixon backed up a first-round 82 with an 83, shooting 165 for the tournament, and Hobson improved three strokes on the second day with an 82, shooting a total of 167 for the tournament.

Kiley Johansen remained steady with two rounds of 85. She tied for 12th. Carmen Thompson figured into the scoring for FHSU on the second day with an 84, following a first day 91. She tied for 19th.

Fort Hays State won three of the five tournaments it played in during the fall season. The team resumes action in the spring, which will include the MIAA Championships in April. The Tigers defeated both MIAA opponents competing in the Park Invitational, which included Missouri Western (3rd) and Northwest Missouri State (6th).

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The Fort Hays State men’s golf team could not hold onto its tournament lead on the second day of competition at the Park University Invitational in Parkville, Mo. The Tigers led by five strokes after an opening round team score of 289, but a 300 on the second day coupled by a 282 from Grand View University allowed GVU to take the team title by 13 strokes. The tournament was held at The Deuce at the National Golf Course, a par-70 layout.

Also unable to hold onto his first round lead was Tom O’Keeffe, who shot a 5-over par 75 on the second day after a first round 2-under par 68. Yousaf Khan of Grand View posted the lowest score of the tournament on the second day with a 5-under par 65, coming from nine strokes down to clip O’Keeffe by one stroke overall after a first day 77. Aaron Ahrendsen of Grand View tied O’Keeffe for second with rounds of 70 and 73.

Trey Herman was right behind O’Keeffe and Ahrendsen, shooting a 4-over par total of 144 for the tournament after rounds of 71 and 73. Kevin Quinley had a rough second day, shooting 80 after a first round 73. He tied for 15th, but did not figure into the team score on Tuesday.

Markus Hilger and Austin Maxwell each contributed to the team score in the second round. Hilger shot 77 for the second straight day to finish 18th at 154, and Maxwell was just one stroke back of Hilger overall after rounds of 80 and 75. He tied for 19th.

Individuals competing in the tournament from Fort Hays State included Jacob Hoover and Adam Gorjiyan. Hoover shot rounds of 78 and 84 to tie for 27th. Gorjiyan shot rounds of 87 and 84 for 44th.

The Tigers are now finished with the fall season and resume action in the spring.

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The Fort Hays State men’s golf team and Tom O’Keeffe are leading after the first round of the Park University Invite in Parkville, Mo. The tournament is being held at The Deuce at the National Golf Course, a par-70 layout. FHSU shot 289 as a team and O’Keeffe shot a 2-under par 68 to lead the way.

O’Keeffe has a two-stroke lead as an individual. He was the only golfer to shoot under par on the first day of competition. Aaron Ahrendsen of Grand View University is in second place after an even-par 70. Grand View is just five strokes back of Fort Hays State in the team standings. There are nine teams competing in the tournament.

Trey Herman shot a one-over round of 71 to sit alone in third. Kevin Quinley is tied for eighth after a 73. Markus Hilger rounded out the team scorers for the day with a 77 and is tied for 16th. Austin Maxwell is also competing for FHSU and shot 80.

Fort Hays State has two individuals playing in the event that will not figure into the team scoring. Jacob Hoover shot 78 in his first action of the year and Adam Gorjiyan shot 87 in his first action of the year.

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Senior women’s golfer Samantha Nielsen is leading the field after one round at the Park University Invitational in Parkville, Mo. Nielsen fired her lowest round of the year, a 74, on the par-70 layout of The Deuce at the National Golf Course. She was one of just four golfers to shoot below 80 on the first day, helping the Tigers to sit second out of nine teams competing in the tournament.

Fort Hays State shot 326 as a team in the first round, which is just three strokes back of tournament leader Grand View University. Nielsen has just a one shot lead as an individual as Amalia Meiji of Grand View and Ana Laura Gomez of Bellevue University are just one stroke back of the lead. Natalie Bird of Missouri Western is four strokes off the pace after a 78.

Jordan Nixon also sits in the top 10 after the first day, carding an 82 on Monday. She is currently tied for seventh. Kiley Johansen and Samantha Hobson are each tied for 11th after rounds of 85. Carmen Thompson also competed for FHSU, shooting a 91.

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The Fort Hays State volleyball team hosted MIAA rival Pittsburg State on Sunday (Oct. 9) at Gross Memorial Coliseum. After rallying from behind on two separate occasions, the Tigers could not hold off a fifth-set run from the Gorillas which gave them the 3-2 victory.

The match was very balanced, and the second five-setter that the teams have played this season. Fort Hays State outhit Pitt State .183 to .143 and had 113 digs to the Gorillas 109, but they were done in by errors on the serve and on blocks. The Tigers committed 11 service errors to just two for Pitt State and also had five blocking errors.

Pittsburg State took the first set 25-22 before FHSU rebounded and took the second set by the same score. The teams traded the third and fourth sets as well, with Pitt taking the third 25-19 and FHSU getting the fourth 25-16. The Tigers then rode the momentum into the fifth set, taking an 11-4 advantage and they appeared on the way to their second MIAA win of the season.

Pitt State came roaring back following a timeout, and they used three attack errors by FHSU and two kills of their own to cut the lead to 12-10, causing Fort Hays State to call a timeout. Unfortunately for the Tigers, the momentum had already swung and they were unable to get it stopped, with Pitt quickly tying the set up at 12-12 after two more Tiger attack errors. Sara Hewson got a kill to put the Tigers up 13-12, but Pitt got back-to-back kills from Morgan Voorhes to take their first lead of the set at 14-13. A kill from Jenna Ulrich helped the Tigers stay alive, but the Gorillas scored the next two points and won the set 16-14 and the match 3-2.

Four Tigers put down double figure kills, led by Kylee Hoagland with 18 and Hewson with 17. Ulrich was close behind with 14 and Madison Schwartz who had 11. Tracie Hileman the Tigers with 33 digs while Makenzie Weinman added 28. Kayla Zoglman had 61 assists to lead the Tigers and Ulrich had a team-high eight blocks (one solo, seven assist).

Voorhes led the Gorillas with 13 kills and Christa McCaw had a team-high 33 digs.

Fort Hays State drops to 12-9 on the year and 1-6 in the MIAA. They will play at home again on Friday (Oct. 14) against Missouri Western in a match starting at 7:00 pm.

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The Pittsburg State Gorillas score 21 unanswered third quarter points and knock off the Fort Hays State Tigers 38-17 in front of 4,704 on a rainy Saturday homecoming night at Lewis Field.

After Pitt State scored on their first possession, the Tigers tied the game on a 6-yard Andre Smith touchdown run. Pitt answered with a 12-play 64-yard, 6:27 scoring drive to go up 14-7 early in the second quarter. Each team exchanged field goals to make it 17-10 Pitt at the half. The Gorillas had a chance to go up more but WR Andrew Castaneda had the ball knocked away near the goal line by Sherod Murdock for a touchdack.

Anthony Sheppard, making his first start of the season at quarterback, capped a 10-play, 67-yard with a 7-yard touchdown run to tie the game at 17 with 10:10 to play in the third quarter.

Pitt scored on their next drive then took advantage of two Tigers turnovers for the final margin late in the third.

Pitt ended with 502 yards of offense on 88 plays compared to 172 yards on 44 plays for the Tigers. Sheppard completed just 7-of-17 passes for 96 yards with one interception. Andre Smith led the Tigers with 35 rushing yards and 48 yards receiving.

Pitt State moves to 6-0 on the season. The Tigers fall to 2-4 and 2-3 in the MIAA.

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Joplin, Mo. —The Fort Hays State volleyball team came up short in a five-set thriller Friday night at Missouri Southern. Individual set scores were 23-25, 26-24, 21-25, 25-20 and 12-15.

Fort Hays State (12-8, 1-5 MIAA) trailed 18-7 and 20-11 in the first set and were down 23-15 before scoring eight straight to tie it at 23 on a kill from Jenna Ulrich, but an attack error by Ulrich on the next point and a block gave Southern (4-13, 2-3 MIAA) the set.

The Tigers led the second set 13-7, but Southern fought back to get within one at 14-13, forcing a FHSU timeout. The lead for the Tigers reached five at 20-15, forcing a Southern timeout and the set would be tied at 24, before FHSU scored the final two points on kills from Camille Hubert and Kylee Hoagland.

The third set featured nine ties and four lead changes, but the Lions took the lead for good at 18-17 on a kill from Elin Skei. Fort Hays got within one at 21-20, but Southern scored four out of the next five points to win the set.

The Lions took an early 3-1 lead in the fourth set, but Fort Hays tied the set at five and took a 6-5 lead on a Southern attack error. They would take the lead for good at 7-6 on a kill from Megan Glandon.

In the fifth and final set, the Lions led 8-6 at the turn, but Fort Hays came back and scored the next four points to take a 10-8 lead and forced a Southern timeout. The Lions, however, came back and scored three straight points to go up 11-10, and went ahead for good at 13-12 on a kill from Katie Politte. A Southern block and an error on the Tigers gave the Lions the match.

Fort Hays returns home Sunday to host Pittsburg State at 2pm. Fans who bring their ticket stub from Saturday night’s football game receive free admission.

The Fort Hays State men’s soccer team dominated Truman, 4-0, on Friday on the road in Kirksville, Mo. The Tigers got two goals each from Ricardo Yeverino and Tomas Mares in the win.

Mares notched the first two FHSU goals, scoring his first unassisted in the 10th minute on a shot from the left side from five yards out. Mares added his second of the game, and second of the year, 15 minutes later, scoring from 15 yards away on a pass from Diego Cabrel. The Tigers finished the first half up 2-0.

Yeverino provided the second half scoring for the Tigers, notching his two goals 13 minutes apart in the 47th and 60th minutes. The junior striker scored first on a shot from the left side from 30 yards away. Cabral added his second assist in the game on the goal. Yeverino scored again off a turnover, going one-on-one against a Bulldog defender and beating the goalkeeper from 20 yards. The two goals give Yeverino 10 on the season, a team high.

Ryan Pakieser notched the win in goal, stopping two Bulldog shots in the shutout. The shutout is Pakieser’s second on the season.

The win upped FHSU’s record to 6-2-1 on the season, and the Tigers travel to Upper Iowa on Sunday for a 3 p.m. kickoff in Fayette, Iowa.

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