By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n
After posting a season-high shooting percentage Thursday, the fourth-ranked Fort Hays State women’s basketball team bested that mark in Saturday’s 81-61 victory over Central Oklahoma (Jan. 12). The Tigers knocked down 51.8 percent of their shots (29-of-56) while forcing 23 turnovers thanks to 17 steals.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State improved its record to 15-0 overall and 6-0 in MIAA play, while the Bronchos are now 11-5 overall and 2-4 in league action.<\/p>\n
The Tigers got off to a hot start and never looked back, hitting 8-of-13 shots (61.5 percent) in the opening quarter to go along with a perfect 6-for-6 effort from the charity stripe. Fort Hays State closed the quarter with nine-straight points, including a big three-pointer from Taylor Rolfs<\/a>.<\/p>\n After trailing by as many as 18, Central Oklahoma battled back within eight late in the second quarter before a Carly Heim<\/a> free throw made the halftime margin 37-28.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State dominated out of the locker room, outscoring the Bronchos 23-9 in the third quarter to pull away for good. The Tigers closed the quarter on a 15-2 run over the final five-plus minutes, including seven-straight points from Tatyana Legette<\/a> over an 84-second span.<\/p>\n Five players scored in double figures for the third time this season, including a game-high 18 for Legette to go along with six assists, seven rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Kacey Kennett<\/a> tallied 14 points, while Lanie Page<\/a> had 13, Whitney Randall<\/a> had 12 and Rolfs had 11.<\/p>\n The Tigers took advantage of the 23 Broncho turnovers, tallying 24 points off turnovers including 16 fast-break points. FHSU also dominated in the paint, outscoring the visitors 38-20.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State will head back out on the road next week when they travel to a pair of in-state opponents. First up is a trip to Emporia, Kan. Wednesday (Jan. 16) to take on Emporia State at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION After posting a season-high shooting percentage Thursday, the fourth-ranked Fort Hays State women’s basketball team bested that mark in Saturday’s 81-61… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43157,"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":[7349,3395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-womens-basketball-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/womensbb.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\/43155","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=43155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43158,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43155\/revisions\/43158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}