The No. 6 seed Fort Hays State women’s soccer season ended in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a 2-0 loss to No. 3 seed Central Oklahoma on Friday afternoon (Nov. 9) at the Pitch at Gage Towers in Mankato, Minn. The Tigers finished the 2012 season with a 14-7-1 record, which included a MIAA Tournament Championship.
Two first half goals by the Bronchos were the difference in the 2-0 loss. UCO scored the game-winning goal in the sixth minute. Shayna Kindsvater scored her first goal of the season, putting the Bronchos up 1-0 early in the match.
Central Oklahoma doubled its lead to 2-0 in the 33rd minute on a goal by Kate Foran, her fifth of the season.
Despite 13 shots, the Tigers could not get on the scoreboard. UCO totaled 18 shots and held a 7-3 advantage in shots on goal.
Nicole Barnaba got the loss in goal, dropping her record to 10-3-1. She made five saves and allowed the two goals.
The Tigers, in their second season of soccer, won eight more matches than 2011 when FHSU went 6-11-1. This season, FHSU won the MIAA Tournament Championship, a first in its short history. The 14-7-1 record included a five-match win streak that was snapped in today’s NCAA Tournament.
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After 35 years of coaching, Smith Center’s Roger Barta is calling it quits. Barta informed his team at their season-ending meeting Wednesday night that this past season is his last.
Barta has 323 coaching victories and guided the Redmen to 11 state title game appearances, winning eight titles.
He engineered a state record 79-game winning streak which culminated in a fourth straight state title in 2009. The streak prompted Barta and the Redmen to be featured in a New York Times best selling book Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen written by author Joe Drape.
Fort Hays State football coach Chris Brown and selected players sat down with the local media for their final weekly press conference Tuesday night following practice. The Tigers close out the season Saturday at 12:30pm at Nebraska-Kearney.
Anthony Sheppard Presser 11-6-12
The Fort Hays State volleyball team fell in straight sets to Emporia State on Tuesday evening in Emporia, Kan. The Hornets rolled to the win by scores of 25-18, 25-16, and 25-18, gaining a regular season split with the Tigers after FHSU won by a score of 3-1 earlier this year in Hays. The loss puts FHSU at 23-12 overall and 7-9 in the MIAA. Emporia State moved to 18-10 overall and 8-7 in the MIAA.
Emporia State rolled to the straight-set win by hitting .315 overall compared to just .115 for FHSU. ESU averaged nearly 27 digs per set with 70 total, compared to just 49 for FHSU, keeping several of the FHSU attacks in play throughout the night. The Hornets scored 55 of their 75 points on kills.
Paige Vanderpool and Courtney Haring led the Hornets with 14 kills each. Haring hit .458 and Vanderpool .394 for the match. Meg Schwartz averaged over nine digs per set for the Hornets with 28 and Katie Deutschmann led in assists with 25.
Taylor Mares led the Tigers in kills with seven, hitting .389 for the match with no errors on 18 attempts. Madison Schwartz added six kills. Kayle Zoaglman had 25 assists and Tara Hoekman led FHSU in digs with 15.
The Tigers close out the regular season on Saturday when they host No. 6 ranked Central Missouri at 11 am in Hays.
– FHSU Sports Information –
Both the Fort Hays State men’s and women’s soccer teams are headed to the NCAA tournament in just their second year of existence.
The Tiger men are the No. 2 seed in the Central Regional and will play top-seeded Northeastern State in Tahlequah either November 15th or 16th with the winner advancing to the Elite Eight. The Tigers have lost twice to the Riverhawks, both in double overtime.
The Fort Hays State women are the No. 6 seed in the Central Regional and will open with No. 3 seed Central Oklahoma Friday afternoon in Mankato, Minnesota. It’s a rematch of the MIAA tournament semifinals in which the Tigers beat the Bronchos 2-1 in double overtime. The Tigers are 1-1 against UCO this season.
Kansas used a couple of big first half runs to take control and defeat the Fort Hays State Lady Tigers 88-43 in an exhibition game Sunday afternoon in Lawrence. The Tigers had a 4-3 lead two minutes in when KU scored 11-straight to go up 10. They would later add a 15-0 run to push the lead to 25.
The Tigers, playing without point guard Kai Brown who tweaked her knee in the K-State game Thursday, were led by Kate Lehman and Kate Edwards. Lehman scored 16 points but was held to just three rebounds. Edwards chipped in 11 points and grabbed seven boards.
Kate Edwards Postgame 11-4-12
Game Highlights 11-4-12
The Fort Hays State women’s soccer team scored in double overtime to win the MIAA Championship, 2-1, over No. 1 seed Central Missouri on Sunday in Warrenburg, Mo. The Tigers, who are in their second season of soccer, won their first MIAA Championship in the program’s short history. With the win, FHSU clinches a spot in the NCAA Tournament, which starts Nov. 9.
For the second straight match, the Tigers scored the golden goal in the 107th minute to win 2-1. This time, junior forward Joanne Glynn hit the game winner after the Jennies miscleared the ball, and Glynn gained possession and hit a shot that went in.
Fort Hays State took an early 1-0 lead less than 2 minutes into the match. Jordan Hester scored on a shot from the center of the box on a short pass from Bethany Keefer. The goal was Hester’s 10th goal of the season, a team high, and second of the MIAA Tournament.
The lead did not last long as the Jennies tied the score at 1-1 in the 10th minute. Aaryn Burke knocked in a rebound to knot the match at 1-1.
The match remained 1-1 for the rest of the 90 minute regulation and for the first 10 minutes of the first overtime. The Tigers scored the game-winning goal at the 6:32 mark of the second overtime.
Nicole Barnaba got the win in goal for the Tigers. She made five saves and allowed the one goal to up her season record to 9-2-1.
To win the MIAA Tournament Championship, the No. 6-seeded Tigers defeated the No. 1-3 seeds in the three rounds. In the quarterfinals, FHSU won 1-0 over No. 3 Truman and then the Tigers won 2-1 in double overtime against No. 2 Central Oklahoma to reach the MIAA Championship match.
The Tigers improved to 14-6-1 on the season. The NCAA Tournament field will be announced Monday at 6:30 p.m.
– FHSU Sports Information –
The Fort Hays State defense held Central Missouri to 90 yards and no points in the second half but come up short, losing 14-12 on Senior Day at Lewis Field.
Trailing 14-6 and starting quarterback Tarean Austin out with an ankle injury, Anthony Sheppard led the Tigers on an 11-play 74-yard scoring drive, capped off by a 6-yard Sheppard run to pull FHSU within two. Sheppard’s pass to Tanner Hagaman on the two-point conversion was off the mark.
Central took a 7-0 lead on an 8-yard pass to Ronrei Lloyd with 2:18 to play in the first quarter. They would go up 14-3 on a 21-yard TD pass to Kevin Johnson with 0:22 to play before halftime.
The Tigers finish with 381 yards of offense on 75 plays. The Mules were held to 331 yards. FHSU controlled the time of possession 34:40 to the Mules 25:20.
Anthony Sheppard finished with 80 yards rushing and 54 yards passing.
The loss drops Fort Hays State to 4-6 and 3-6 in the MIAA, they close out the season next Saturday with a 12:30 game at Nebraska-Kearney.
The Hays High Indians fell to the Bishop Carroll Eagles by the score of 52-27 Friday night in Wichita, and end their season in the first round of the State Playoffs. The Indians only trailed by 3 at half time, but were outscored 28-6 in the second half. Hays High ends their season with a 7-3 record.
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