FHSU Sports Infomation Department<\/p>\n
HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State swept Lincoln University in a conference doubleheader on Sunday (Mar. 20) at Tiger Stadium. FHSU shutout Lincoln in game one 5-0 before taking the second contest 9-4. FHSU moved to 12-17 overall and 6-6 in the MIAA, while Lincoln dropped to 2-27 overall and 1-11 in the MIAA.<\/p>\n
Game 1: Fort Hays State 5, Lincoln 0<\/strong><\/p>\n Paxton Duran threw her second shutout of the season and struck out nine to help FHSU to a 5-0 victory. She scattered four hits and hit one batter, but did not allow any walks. She improved to 7-10 on the season with the win.<\/p>\n Veronica Knittig opened the scoring for the Tigers in the third with a solo homer to left field. Erin Elmore followed with a double and then Rilee Krier singled before Tori Beltz drove both of them home on a smash single up the middle. FHSU added a run in the fifth on a Duran RBI single and a Lincoln fielding error led to a run in the sixth.<\/p>\n Macie Kinsey took the loss for Lincoln. She pitched 3.0 innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on six hits. Madison Ragar also pitched three innings and allowed one run.<\/p>\n Game 2: Fort Hays State 9, Lincoln 4<\/strong><\/p>\n Fort Hays State took an early 1-0 lead in game two on a Kylie Strand RBI single in the first, but a pair of errors by the Tigers in the second led to three Lincoln runs. FHSU trailed Lincoln 3-1 through three innings before breaking through in the fourth.<\/p>\n The Tigers scored six runs in the fourth on five hits and a Lincoln error led to two unearned runs in the inning. FHSU plated the first run on a wild pitch, then Rilee Krier delivered a game tying RBI single. Tori Beltz nearly in a grand slam as her blast hit high off the wall in left center, resulting in a two-RBI double to give FHSU a 5-3 lead. Strand later had an RBI groundout and Chermayne Yago also drove home a run with a single.<\/p>\n FHSU tacked on two more runs in the sixth on a Beltz two-run homer. Lincoln plated one run in the seventh, but it was too little, too late. Beltz went 3-for-4 at the plate in the game with four RBI.<\/p>\n Carrie Clarke went the distance for FHSU in the pitching circle, allowing four runs (one earned) on five hits and two walks. She struck out a season-high five batters.<\/p>\n Lauren Stamp took the loss for Lincoln, allowing seven runs (five earned) on seven hits and a walk. Sarah Westhoff threw five innings for Lincoln and gave up just two runs.<\/p>\n The Tigers now head on the road for a couple of weeks. FHSU will have conference doubleheaders at Northeastern State and Central Oklahoma next week before heading to Missouri Western and Northwest Missouri State the following week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FHSU Sports Infomation Department HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State swept Lincoln University in a conference doubleheader on Sunday (Mar. 20) at Tiger Stadium. FHSU… <\/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":[4541,7349],"tags":[6818,2688,106,5171,181],"class_list":["post-26104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-softball-sports","category-sports","tag-roartigers","tag-fhsu-softball","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-lincoln","tag-miaa"],"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\/26104","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=26104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26106,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104\/revisions\/26106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}