By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n
EDMOND, Okla. – The 14th-ranked Central Oklahoma Bronchos gave the Fort Hays State volleyball team all it could handle Saturday afternoon (Oct. 27), knocking off the Tigers in three sets (25-16, 25-18, 25-21). The Tigers are now 8-20 overall and 2-14 in the MIAA with two games remaining in the regular season, while the Bronchos move to 25-5 on the year and 13-3 in league action.<\/p>\n
The Bronchos rolled to a 25-16 win in the opening set and jumped in front big to start the second set, 17-8. The Tigers wouldn’t go down without a fight, capturing the next five points to close within four. A pair of UCO errors helped the cause, filling the run alongside kills from Taylor White<\/a> and Azlyn Cassaday<\/a> and a block from Cassaday and Tatum Bartels<\/a>. The Bronchos took back control after the run, holding FHSU without consecutive points the rest of the way to head to the locker room up 2-0 after a 25-18 win.<\/p>\n The teams swapped points for much of the third set, leading to 12 ties and eight lead changes. Fort Hays State led as late as 19-18 after back-to-back kills from Kayla Vitztum<\/a> and Isabelle Reynolds<\/a>, but Central Oklahoma finished things off after a 7-2 run gave the Bronchos the 25-21 win.<\/p>\n Vitztum led the Tigers with a season-high 13 kills while adding one block assist. Bartels compiled a team-best three blocks to go along with five kills and three digs. Bre Becker<\/a> totaled 11 assists and 12 digs while Becca Page<\/a> tossed up a season-high 10 assists. Abbie Hayes<\/a> led the team with 17 digs.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State totaled a .116 hitting percentage while allowing the Bronchos a .242 swing rate. The Tigers held an edge in digs, 62-60, and in blocks, 5-4.<\/p>\n The Tigers will wrap up the regular season next weekend at home against Northwest Missouri State and Missouri Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION EDMOND, Okla. – The 14th-ranked Central Oklahoma Bronchos gave the Fort Hays State volleyball team all it could handle Saturday afternoon… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41601,"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":[7349,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-volleyball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/vitztum.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\/41600","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=41600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41602,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600\/revisions\/41602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}