After picking up there first three wins on the season all in a row, the Fort Hays State Tiger volleyball team (3-11,1-6 MIAA) is on the road for eight straight games, seeking their first road win on the season.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited about what we got coming up here in the next couple weeks,” Head Coach Kurt Kohler said.<\/p>\n
The road trip for the Tigers started started with a flat tire as the Tigers dropped the first games, one to Washburn and one to Emporia, only managing to win one set.<\/p>\n
“Washburn has always been a fundamentally sound team, and White Auditorium (in Emporia), Fort Hays has always struggled for whatever reason,” Kohler said.<\/p>\n
Coming into the match against Washburn Kohler had said-we needed to limit big runs and just compete all the way through.<\/p>\n
The Tigers were swept in straight sets; 25-20, 25-21, 25-13, and saw runs like 8-1, 5-0,7-0,6-1,and 4-0 throughout the matches as the Tigers couldn’t keep with the Ichabods.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State University volleyball fell, 3-1 (21-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-20), to Emporia State on Saturday in Emporia.<\/p>\n
The rest of the road trip for the Tigers is a triangular in Oklahoma.\u00a0 Fort Hays will face Northwestern Oklahoma State and Oklahoma Panhandle State.<\/p>\n
Senior Madison Schwartz leads Fort Hays offensively for the road thus far with 20 kills and freshman Haley Corkill has the highest hitting percentage at .533.<\/p>\n
Defensively the Tigers are led by seniors Jenna Ulrich and Makenzie Weinman.\u00a0 Ulrich continues to play in All-MIAA form of lately with 13 kills and Weinman had 37 digs.<\/p>\n
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