{"id":19804,"date":"2015-04-21T21:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T02:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19804"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:46:25","slug":"softball-takes-on-northwestern-oklahoma-state-in-non-conference-play-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19804","title":{"rendered":"Softball takes on Northwestern Oklahoma State in non-conference play Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fort Hays State softball takes on Northwestern Oklahoma State in Alva, Okla., <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_303846549\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_303846550\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3 p.m.<\/span><\/span> in a non-conference doubleheader. The Tigers enter at 23-22 overall to start their final week of regular season play.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe Tigers take on a Rangers team that enters at 18-25 overall. NWOSU has lost five of its last six games and has not played games since April 11, having its conference series this past weekend wiped out due to weather.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State split a pair of non-conference doubleheaders last week at Newman University and Rockhurst University. This is the third-straight non-conference doubleheader the Tigers are playing before facing Nebraska-Kearney in the final conference doubleheader of the season <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_303846551\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> in Hays.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers need to break out of an offensive funk that has seen them score two or less runs in seven of their last 10 games. FHSU has a record of just 3-7 in that stretch with only one win in the games it scored two or less. This will be a good week to do so as\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_303846552\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday&#8217;s<\/span><\/span> games against Nebraska-Kearney and other conference action will decide which teams get in the conference tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the circle, the Tigers own the fourth-best team earned run average in the conference (2.95), but have surrendered an average of 3.7 earned runs per game over the last 10 games.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Hays State softball takes on Northwestern Oklahoma State in Alva, Okla., on Tuesday\u00a0at 3 p.m. in a non-conference doubleheader. The Tigers enter at 23-22&hellip; <\/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":[4541],"tags":[2688,4903,5764,5763],"class_list":["post-19804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-softball-sports","tag-fhsu-softball","tag-fort-hays-softball","tag-northwestern-oklahoma-state-softball","tag-rangers-softball"],"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\/19804","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=19804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19816,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804\/revisions\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}