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Fort Hays State rolled to a 120-39 victory over McPherson College in its home opener, setting a school record for points in a single game on Wednesday (Nov. 19) at Gross Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n
FHSU (2-1) was dominant from the field, shooting 58.8 percent from the field, including a 19-of-30 effort in the second half (63.3 percent).\u00a0 From long range, FHSU hit on 55.6 percent of its attempts (10-of-18). As a team, the Tigers outrebounded the Bulldogs, 49-19 and dished out an impressive 28 assists in the win.<\/p>\n
The Tigers opened the game on an 11-0 run in the first 2:56 and never looked back.\u00a0 After stretching the lead to 16 (27-11) just inside the 10-minute mark, the Tigers put together a 28-2 run that lasted over eight minutes, and included two separate runs of 13 and 15 unanswered.\u00a0 Kate Lehman<\/a><\/dfn> had 10 points for FHSU during the stretch.<\/p>\n At the break, FHSU led the Bulldogs by 40 (58-18).\u00a0 Lehman led all scorers with 22 points at the pause.<\/p>\n The second half began in similar fashion to the first, with the Tigers running off nine unanswered in the first 3:28 of play.\u00a0 Combined with the end of the first half, FHSU’s run was its third 13-0 burst of the night.<\/p>\n Inside 16 minutes to play, Fort Hays State took full control with a 27-0 run that lasted 7:02.\u00a0 Up by 49 (70-21), a layup from Lehman started a run that saw nine separate Tigers score, giving FHSU a 95-21 advantage.<\/p>\n FHSU’s final double-digit run of the night began at the 8:14 mark on a layup from Payton Hoeme<\/a><\/dfn>.\u00a0 From there, FHSU ran off eight more points unanswered, including a pair of free throws from Christine Russell<\/a><\/dfn> that pushed FHSU past the century mark for the first time this season.<\/p>\n Jenna Ulrich<\/a><\/dfn>‘s free throw with 1:35 to go set a new single game scoring record for the school, breaking the previous mark of 116 (set against Stephens College on Nov. 15, 2006).\u00a0 Hoeme’s three-pointer with one minute to go was the Tigers’ final field goal of the night, as the game ended with an 81-point scoring margin in FHSU’s favor, 120-39.<\/p>\n Lehman led all scorers with 30 points, adding eight rebounds while just missing a double-double.\u00a0 The performance was her second career game with at least 30 points.<\/p>\n Four other Tigers hit double-digits in scoring, as Jill Faxon<\/a><\/dfn> (15 points), Hoeme (11 points), Beth Bohuslavsky<\/a><\/dfn> (11 points) and Sarah Pimentel<\/a><\/dfn> (10 points) ranked among the team leaders.<\/p>\n Bohuslavsky added four assists and four rebounds in the effort, going a perfect 3-for-3 from long range.\u00a0 Joining her from the guard position, Nikola Kacperska<\/a><\/dfn> played well in 13 minutes of action, dishing out a team-high six assists to go with six rebounds. Paige Lunsford<\/a><\/dfn>‘s five assists was second highest on the team, matching her five rebounds.<\/p>\n Overall, seven Tigers set or tied career-highs in points, rebounds or assists in the contest, with three players (Kristin Huser<\/a><\/dfn>, Taylor Menke<\/a><\/dfn> and Hoeme) scoring their first career points.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State remains home on Saturday, Nov. 22 for a contest with Cameron.\u00a0 Game time from Gross Coliseum is 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fort Hays State rolled to a 120-39 victory over McPherson College in its home opener, setting a school record for points in a single… <\/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":[765,4207,3463,69,3448,243,3461,739,1447,2091,764,3460,3465,4206,1445,103],"class_list":["post-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-basketball-sports","tag-beth-bohuslavsky","tag-cameron","tag-christine-russell","tag-fhsu","tag-fhsu-womens-basketball","tag-jenna-ulrich","tag-jill-faxon","tag-kate-lehman","tag-kristin-huser","tag-mcpherson-college","tag-nikola-kacperska","tag-paige-lunsford","tag-payton-hoeme","tag-sarah-pimentel","tag-taylor-menke","tag-tiger-media-network"],"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\/16626","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=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16641,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions\/16641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}