By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n
HAYS, Kan. – Sterling College kept pace with Fort Hays State for the first 15 minutes on Saturday evening (Nov. 24), but FHSU pulled away in the second half for a 99-73 win. Fort Hays State improved to 3-3 overall, while Sterling College is 1-3.<\/p>\n
Both teams shot the ball extremely well early in the game, making for a back-and-forth battle in the first 15 minutes. Sterling’s took the lead for the last time with just over 6:30 remaining in the first half, holding a 32-29 advantage. From that point, the Tigers went on a 7-0 run capped by an Aaron Nicholson<\/a> 3-point field goal to lead by four. The Tigers eventually extended the lead to eight by halftime, 45-37.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State opened the second half on a 23-10 run to open up a 21-point lead. The Tigers went into cruise control the rest of the way, never seeing the lead trimmed smaller than 19 points. The largest lead was 28 at the 2:31 and 0:20 marks on the clock before the final margin settled at 26.<\/p>\n Brady Werth<\/a> poured in 22 points to lead FHSU, going 10-of-15 from the field and 2-of-2 at the free-throw line. He tied Marcus Cooper<\/a> for the team lead in rebounds, each with eight. Nicholson scored 17 points with four 3-point field goals. He was 6-of-12 from the field overall and 1-of-1 at the charity stripe. Trey O’Neil<\/a> (12), Jared Vitztum<\/a> (11), and Kyler Kinnamon<\/a> (10) also reached double figures in scoring. Kinnamon had a team-best eight assists on the evening, helping FHSU to 24 as a team. The Tigers hit 15 3-point field goals in the game. O’Neil matched Nicholson for most made, also with four.<\/p>\n JaMiah Windom-Haynes led the Warriors with 18 points and six rebounds. Edo Okafor had 11, while Isaac Ostrosky and Sean Nordberg each had 10.<\/p>\n FHSU forced Sterling into 20 turnovers and pulled down 21 offensive rebounds. Overall, the Tigers outrebounded the Warriors by 15 (46-31) and outscored them by 17 on second-chance opportunities.<\/p>\n The Tigers return to their home floor on Tuesday night (Nov. 27) when they take on Central Christian College (Kan.) at 7 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION HAYS, Kan. – Sterling College kept pace with Fort Hays State for the first 15 minutes on Saturday evening (Nov. 24),… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42380,"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":[3394,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mbbsterling.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\/42379","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=42379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42381,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42379\/revisions\/42381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}