In its lone exhibition before tipping off the 2014-15 regular season campaign, Fort Hays State University \u00a0Women’s Basketball fell, 73-52, to Kansas on Sunday afternoon in Lawrence.<\/p>\n
The Tigers hung close with KU for a majority of the first half, trailing by five (26-21) with 7:38 to play. \u00a0From there, however, the Jayhawks closed the half on a 17-1 run that put the game out of reach. \u00a0FHSU did match KU in scoring for the second half, with each team tallying 30 points.<\/p>\n
FHSU hit just 26.8 percent of its field goals on the afternoon, but showed bright spots as Kate Lehman<\/dfn>, Jill Faxon<\/dfn> and\u00a0Chelsea Mason<\/dfn> all hit double-digits in scoring.<\/p>\n Lehman’s 17 points paced the Tigers, as Faxon had 12 points and Mason added 10 points.\u00a0 Lehman was 6-of-11 from the field on the night and hit 5-of-10 free throw opportunities, pulling down six rebounds.\u00a0 Faxon and Mason led the team in field goal attempts, with 19 and 17, respectively.<\/p>\n The team leader on the boards was Paige Lunsford<\/dfn>, who grabbed seven total rebounds, four of them coming on the offensive glass. Lunsford’s 30 minutes played led the team as well.<\/p>\n Keriann Shaw<\/dfn> provided a spark defensively, leading the team with five steals, while Beth Bohuslavsky<\/dfn> added seven assists and seven points in the contest.<\/p>\n Kansas, which reach the second round of the Big 12 Tournament last season, was Chelsea Gardner’s double-double (23 points, 10 rebounds).\u00a0 Natalie Knight added 11 points as the second-leading scorer.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State heads to St. Paul, Minn., in two weeks for its regular season opener on Nov. 14.\u00a0 The Tigers will play a two-day event at Concordia-St. Paul on Nov.\u00a0 14-15, taking on Bemidji State and the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In its lone exhibition before tipping off the 2014-15 regular season campaign, Fort Hays State University \u00a0Women’s Basketball fell, 73-52, to Kansas on Sunday afternoon… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3395],"tags":[765,3712,3461,739,3459,3713,3714],"class_list":["post-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-basketball-sports","tag-beth-bohuslavsky","tag-chelsea-gardner","tag-jill-faxon","tag-kate-lehman","tag-keriann-shaw","tag-natalie-knight","tag-paige-lundsford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15420,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions\/15420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}