FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT<\/p>\n
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – A solid all-around effort helped the Fort Hays State women’s basketball team cruise past Bemidji State Saturday afternoon (Nov. 19) in a neutral site affair. The Tigers shot 47.2 percent (34-of-72) from the field, including a 40 percent effort from behind the arc (10-of-25), while making 10 steals and forcing 16 turnovers on the defensive end. Tony Hobson’s squad improved to 4-0 on the year while handing the Beavers (2-1) their first loss of the year.
\nThe Tigers put on an offensive rebounding clinic in the contest, grabbing 19 boards off the offensive glass leading to 25 second-chance points. Fort Hays State also had significant advantages in points off turnovers (21-10) and points in the paint (39-26).<\/p>\n
Jill Faxon had another successful shooting night, knocking down 7-of-11 from the field and 3-of-4 from downtown for a game-high 22 points, one off her career high, while distributing a team-best three assists. Nikola Kacperskaknocked down a pair of triples, tallying 14 points and a team-high seven rebounds while making two steals. Carly Heim scored a career-high 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting, pouring in both of her long-range efforts. 11 different Tigers tallied points in the win.<\/p>\n
The Tigers trailed for all of 14 seconds, falling behind 2-1 after the Beavers dropped in a layup for the first field goal of the game. Madison Mittie answered with a three-pointer on the next Tiger possession, and the rout was on. Fort Hays State closed the quarter on a 13-5 run to stretch the lead to 11, 23-12.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State held the Beavers to just four field goals in the second quarter, forcing seven turnovers in the frame. The Tigers led by as many as 33, 50-17, after a 27-5 run over the first eight minutes of the quarter.<\/p>\n
The Tigers defense was even more effective in the third quarter, limiting BSU to seven points on 2-of-9 shooting and forcing six more turnovers. A layup from Taylor Rolfs on the final possession of the quarter put the Tigers in front by 52, their largest lead of the season (80-28).<\/p>\n
After scoring just 28 points in the first three quarters, the Beavers more than doubled that in the fourth quarter by scoring 30 points on 12-of-21 shooting. But the 52-point cushion the Tigers built was more than enough, still winning by 33 points.<\/p>\n
The Tigers will return to Gross Memorial Coliseum next weekend for their home opener, a 5 p.m. contest with Bethel College on Friday (Nov. 25). The post-Thanksgiving basketball feast continues Saturday with the first FHSU men’s and women’s doubleheader of the year when Sterling College comes to town.<\/p>\n FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT ST. CLOUD, Minn. – A solid all-around effort helped the Fort Hays State women’s basketball team cruise past Bemidji State Saturday… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"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":true,"_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":[7349,3395],"tags":[6818,4016,676,3448,106,103],"class_list":["post-29815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-womens-basketball-sports","tag-roartigers","tag-bemidji-state","tag-bethel-college","tag-fhsu-womens-basketball","tag-fort-hays-state-university","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\/29815","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\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29817,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions\/29817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"