{"id":40627,"date":"2018-10-01T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40627"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:10:24","slug":"hirschs-late-goal-pushes-tigers-to-1-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40627","title":{"rendered":"Hirsch&#8217;s late goal pushes Tigers to 1-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With 0-2 records in the MIAA, both Northeastern State and Fort Hays State were fighting for their first conference win of the season. The game seemed destined for extra time before <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/d32ec488-345e-4f6b-910f-acbf64b869f5?elinkdata=112625\">Darby Hirsch<\/a> played hero for the second time this season as she netted a late-game goal to give the Tigers a 1-0 victory over the RiverHawks.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, FHSU records their first MIAA win to improve to 1-2 in conference and 3-5-2 overall. Northeastern State drops to 6-4 and 0-3 in MIAA play on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams played lock down defense and relied on their goalkeepers to keep the match scoreless. However, in the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Hirsch connected on passes from both <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/cf1948bc-ea82-44d4-a0d8-323954f32284?elinkdata=112625\">Cailey Perkins<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/20f49cc4-b5b9-4a82-82f5-7e154acf59d4?elinkdata=112625\">Chloe Montano<\/a> as she played the ball ahead to capture her second goal of the season. This shot gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead with just five minutes remaining in regulation. That goal would prove to be the winner for FHSU as they earned their first MIAA win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State out-shot Northeastern State in the match by a 19-6 margin, with 10 hitting on goal. Perkins led the way with four shot attempts on the day, the most for any player. <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/b22f3d09-81a2-43b5-9429-db7853a3e5cd?elinkdata=112625\">Nikita Woods<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/517ef996-fca4-4158-ab5e-f7843935acad?elinkdata=112625\">Olympia Katsouridis<\/a> accounted for three shots each, while five other Tigers recorded at least one shot. For the RiverHawks, five players attempted a shot against Tiger keeper <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/436f3715-920e-45bf-9b96-c7048a19d4cc?elinkdata=112625\">Megan Kneefel<\/a>, led by Valeriia Pankratova with two.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers were awarded two yellow cards in the match during the final ten minutes against Katsouridis and <a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/9313bbe9-d6cb-42d1-889d-63bfadefe479?elinkdata=112625\">Macy Decker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kneefel picks up the win in net for the Tigers, improving her record to 3-4-2 and totaling 44 saves after collecting five in the match. Brennan Hockett falls to 5-3 for the RiverHawks and adds nine saves to her total for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State is back home next weekend for another two-match weekend in Hays. On Friday (Oct. 5) the Tigers welcome Missouri Western in a 7 p.m. duel followed by a 2:30 p.m. match against Northwest Missouri State on Sunday (Oct. 7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION With 0-2 records in the MIAA, both Northeastern State and Fort Hays State were fighting for their first conference win of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40628,"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":[7349,3393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-womens-soccar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wsocriverhawks.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627","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=40627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40629,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions\/40629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}