Fort Hays State University volleyball hits the road for its final four matches of the season, the first two coming Friday and Saturday. The Tigers (13-14, 7-11 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Assocation) play at Missouri Western (20-6, 14-4 MIAA) on Friday at 7 pm, and at Northwest Missouri State (9-17, 6-12 MIAA) on Saturday at 2 pm.<\/p>\n
The Tigers have played well away from home this year, a combined 9-7 in their road and neutral site matches combined. The Tigers fell at home to both Missouri Western and Northwest Missouri State earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State is 6-2 in its last eight matches, the only losses coming to a pair of nationally ranked teams in Nebraska-Kearney and Central Missouri. In that stretch, the Tigers have done a great job spreading around the offensive attack as seven players have more than 35 kills. Mallory Flagor<\/a><\/dfn> leads that group with 86 kills, followed by Taylor Mares<\/a><\/dfn> with 72. Those two continue to lead the Tigers in kills for the season, Flagor with 333 and Mares with 233. Rebekah Spainhour<\/a><\/dfn> has also cracked the 200-kill plateau, currently with 209.<\/p>\n Raegan Vanderplas<\/a><\/dfn> has jumped into the starting role at setter and is averaging six assists per set in the last eight matches. Kristin Conor<\/a><\/dfn> complements her by adding 5.04 per set in the two-setter offense. Both have played solid defense in that span, Vanderplas averaging 2.77 digs and Conor 2.07 digs per set. At the net Callie Christensen<\/a><\/dfn> has averaged 1.31 blocks per set in the last eight matches with a total of 38.<\/p>\n The Tigers will need to win three of their last four matches to secure a winning season, but they have already matched their most wins ever in MIAA play since joining the conference in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fort Hays State University volleyball hits the road for its final four matches of the season, the first two coming Friday and Saturday. The Tigers… <\/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":[382],"tags":[3380,3508,3379,1882,181,111,2706,1880,384],"class_list":["post-15890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volleyball","tag-callie-christensen","tag-fhsu-womens-volleyball","tag-kristin-conor","tag-mallory-flagor","tag-miaa","tag-missouri-western","tag-raegan-vanderplas","tag-rebekah-spainhour","tag-taylor-mares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15960,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions\/15960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}