{"id":40029,"date":"2018-09-14T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40029"},"modified":"2018-09-14T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:05:34","slug":"mens-golf-ranked-8th-in-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40029","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s golf ranked 8th in preseason poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By FHSU Sports Information<\/b><\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; The Fort Hays State men&#8217;s golf team is ranked eighth in the 2018-19 MIAA Men&#8217;s Golf Preseason Coaches Poll, released Friday (Sept. 14) by the league office. The Tigers received 16 points in the balloting process, 12 back of seventh-place Missouri Southern.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State finished in a tie for seventh in the league last season after turning in a sixth-place performance at the conference championships to wrap up the season.<\/p>\n<p>Central Missouri was picked to win the league after picking up 55 points, just one more than defending champion Lindenwood.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State returns 11 players from a year ago, including four student-athletes who competed for the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers will get their first look at MIAA competition next week when they travel to Muskogee, Okla. for the first designated conference event of the season, the NSU Men&#8217;s Golf Classic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIAA Men&#8217;s Golf Preseason Coaches Poll<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Central Missouri (2) &#8211; 55 points<br \/>\n2. Lindenwood (3) &#8211; 54 points<br \/>\n3. Washburn (2) &#8211; 51 points<br \/>\n4. Central Oklahoma &#8211; 50 points<br \/>\n5. Missouri Western (1) &#8211; 44 points<br \/>\n6. Northeastern State &#8211; 33 points<br \/>\n7. Missouri Southern &#8211; 28 points<br \/>\n<strong>8. Fort Hays State &#8211; 16 points<\/strong><br \/>\n9. Southwest Baptist &#8211; 15 points<br \/>\n10. Lincoln University &#8211; 14 points<br \/>\n<em>*Not All Teams Submitted Ballots<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU Sports Information KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; The Fort Hays State men&#8217;s golf team is ranked eighth in the 2018-19 MIAA Men&#8217;s Golf Preseason&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3396,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-sports","category-sports"],"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\/40029","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40030,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40029\/revisions\/40030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}