{"id":52285,"date":"2020-01-06T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=52285"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:22:08","slug":"tigers-host-gorillas-in-search-of-first-miaa-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=52285","title":{"rendered":"Tigers host Gorillas in search of first MIAA win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State returns to action on Monday night (Jan. 6) when it plays host to Pittsburg State at Gross Memorial Coliseum. Tipoff is set for 7:30 pm, which follows the women&#8217;s game at 5:30 pm. The Tigers and Gorillas both enter the contest winless in conference play, both at 0-3. FHSU is 6-5 overall and PSU is 4-8 overall.<br><br> The Tigers are looking to bounce back from their first home loss of the season, a setback to No. 18 ranked Missouri Southern on Saturday evening. It was Missouri Southern&#8217;s first win in Hays since the 2011-12 season.<br><br> The Tigers will now attempt to protect a four-game win streak overall against Pittsburg State. The Tigers swept the Gorillas last year with a two-point win on the road and a 10-point win at home. FHSU won the only meeting with PSU in both the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. Pittsburg State&#8217;s last win in the series occurred in February of the 2015-16 season in Pittsburg. FHSU claimed the last three meetings between the schools in Hays.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f6b12bfe8-5f67-4e09-bbdf-f1cd1dc8a74d%3felinkdata%3d142735&amp;c=E,1,vyve1LYGvq1O0fVuUiaHtr5Ob1iZ7G3i8BTooMC3y8D_Qz0jteLjyCUuujYmDwE5amfdb_ibZPe84NRjYzl_GHgNh6AEDgcZ6W1rGXpKGV38iDssyh2NXE0,&amp;typo=1\">Jared Vitztum<\/a> led the Tigers with 17 points in the loss to Missouri Southern on Saturday, while <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fea09ed30-8e02-4912-b1d1-987fe54461e4%3felinkdata%3d142735&amp;c=E,1,Nvrdym96DSxpFNXFCPQWTy-Cd6t0oxDNBZ72WcP35RrgetkAhGXxz1LIPbOnz4-ADCdsK3jJ69gWj0A0oTYyQvXC6Om6Jdhq7P7rgXXv&amp;typo=1\">Calvin Harrington<\/a> added 11. Vitztum is now averaging 11.5 points per game, just behind team-leader <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f6d01f9fc-4e31-4a8d-a08e-fa1c835c5a43%3felinkdata%3d142735&amp;c=E,1,mwiIp0tQVA2kkINyUE4F06_FCaIfP0dNfgQkksjpIXlG0FHDB5RSab7NrZugEAMA1BvbBXughiDxLgDQze6Y-C5VQroQGRMXHoYYRltrHoDGCmCyPIA,&amp;typo=1\">Devin Davis<\/a> at 11.7 per game. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f3d535da8-d383-4890-b55d-e95a317d1f1f%3felinkdata%3d142735&amp;c=E,1,NPpv-3Y0Oa3gMFAbMzLSW7jjh5RgfFJVBMrbkPqgR9cQYIyuVIqzH7oy_g3qE_a3ELqOdgRWTefOTyS0hL0KX7fNg2t8zvBqUArT7vfYxwXzcXaFbgmiL3RgkdE6&amp;typo=1\">Jake Hutchings<\/a> also averages over 11 points per contest, holding an 11.3 average.<br><br> Pittsburg State enters on a seven-game losing streak overall. The Gorillas fell in overtime on Saturday evening at Nebraska-Kearney by a score of 81-80. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Fort Hays State returns to action on Monday night (Jan. 6) when it plays host to Pittsburg State at Gross Memorial&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":[3394,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-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\/52285","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=52285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52286,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52285\/revisions\/52286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}