{"id":42208,"date":"2018-11-14T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42208"},"modified":"2018-11-14T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:14:07","slug":"mens-soccer-regional-action-opens-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42208","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s soccer regional action opens Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just 16 teams remain in contention for the 2018 NCAA Division II Men&#8217;s Soccer Championship, and four of those programs will compete for a spot in the Final Four this week in Hays. As the Tigers are the No. 1 seed in the Central Region, FHSU Soccer Stadium will be the site for this year&#8217;s Central and Midwest Regional finals as well as the national quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers, ranked No. 11 in the latest national poll, will take on conference rival Northeastern State in the Central Region Championship on Thursday (Nov. 15) at 7 p.m. No. 3 Saginaw Valley State and Ohio Valley, the 4 seed, both won two games last week to earn a spot in the Midwest Region Championship, taking place at 4 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The advancing teams from Thursday&#8217;s contests will play in the national quarterfinal Saturday (Nov. 17) at 1 p.m., with the winner earning a trip to Pittsburgh, Pa. for the national semifinals November 29.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available on a daily basis at a cost of $5 for adults and $3 for kids and college students. Children under five get in free, as well as Fort Hays State students with a valid student ID.<\/p>\n<p>Video of all three games this weekend will be live streamed on The MIAA Network.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh year in a row the Tigers have qualified for the NCAA Division II Championships, the second-longest active streak in the country (LIU Post, eight years). The Tigers have won the Central Region three times (2014, 15, 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Just 16 teams remain in contention for the 2018 NCAA Division II Men&#8217;s Soccer Championship, and four of those programs will&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42209,"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":[3392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-soccar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/regsocsked.jpg?fit=300%2C157","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42210,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208\/revisions\/42210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}