Fort Hays State football will be in search of its first seven-win season since 1996 this Saturday (Nov. 15) in Warrensburg, Mo., when it faces Central Missouri. The Tigers (6-4, 6-4 MIAA) are currently tied for fifth in the MIAA standings, looking to reel in the fourth-place Mules (7-3, 7-3 MIAA) in the conference standings. Action is set to begin at 1:30 pm at Walton Stadium.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State has already clinched back-to-back winning seasons with the win last week against Missouri Southern, a feat accomplished for the first time since 2003 and 2004. The Tigers are looking to take a step further to possibly reach seven wins in a season for the first time in 19 years.<\/p>\n
To reach that mark, the Tigers will have to end an eight-game losing streak to Central Missouri. The Mules have won every meeting between the teams since FHSU joined the conference in 2006, going a perfect 8-0. UCM owns an 8-2 advantage in the all-time series as FHSU won the first two meetings ever way back in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State was on the verge of ending the streak last year in Warrensburg as it took a 27-0 lead early in the game before Central Missouri eventually stormed back and won 48-34.<\/p>\n
The Tigers gave up over 30 points in a game for the first time last week, but still won by producing their most points of the season as well, winning 49-41 over Missouri Southern. The Tigers ran the ball well for the second straight week, going for 234 last week and 242 the previous week at Nebraska-Kearney.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State wide receiver Ed Williams<\/a><\/dfn> enters Saturday with 902 receiving yards. He is already sixth on the single-season receiving yards list at FHSU. Edward Smith<\/a><\/dfn> leads the balanced Tiger rushing attack with 523 yards, followed by Kenneth Iheme<\/a><\/dfn> with 443, and Treveon Albert<\/a><\/dfn> with 406. Justin McPhail<\/a><\/dfn>anchors the defense at linebacker with 99 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss, 4.0 sacks, and two interceptions.Nathan Lindsey<\/a><\/dfn> is coming off a well-earned Beyond Sports Network National Athlete of the Week honor, racking up five tackles, two fumble recoveries (one that went for a 49-yard touchdown) a sack, an interception, and a 92-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fort Hays State football will be in search of its first seven-win season since 1996 this Saturday (Nov. 15) in Warrensburg, Mo., when it faces… <\/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":[3387],"tags":[738,480,1624,69,1694,1628,2543,181,2544,103,481],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-sports","tag-central-missouri","tag-ed-smith","tag-ed-williams","tag-fhsu","tag-fhsu-football","tag-justin-mcphail","tag-kenneth-iheme","tag-miaa","tag-nathan-lindsey","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-treveon-albert"],"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\/16328","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=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16344,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions\/16344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}