{"id":53244,"date":"2020-02-11T15:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=53244"},"modified":"2020-02-11T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:55:50","slug":"brandon-ball-picks-up-miaa-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=53244","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Ball picks up MIAA honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; After defeating a nationally ranked wrestler in his only action of the week, Fort Hays State wrestling senior <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fb3c73f8f-c966-4bc0-951a-652db9d66a9e%3felinkdata%3d145615&amp;c=E,1,u2WweXJTzilB_jeF_y6q1ZcynP5-X4vkIe0Xmt7Gs9JO7QB-RbI_xAASVncFsczWQlGUSnlG7CeBnHx4wJYrSVSMII5hIAbmm4coalD7m8EFwmHJqidm1oSKkpo,&amp;typo=1\">Brandon Ball<\/a> was named the MIAA Wrestler of the Week on Tuesday (Feb. 11). The Great Bend, Kan. native is the third Tiger wrestler to earn the honor this season.<br><br> Ball, the No. 2-ranked wrestler in Division II at 141 pounds, stayed perfect on the season with a 6-0 decision over No. 8 Pete Kuster of Drury. The win helped propel the Tigers to a 33-13 win over the Panthers on Friday (Feb. 7). Ball is now 12-0 on the season and 126-21 in his storied career at FHSU.<br><br> It is the third time Ball has earned the weekly conference award. He was also named league wrestler of the week after the Bob Smith Open during his sophomore (12\/5\/17) and junior seasons (12\/4\/18).<br><br> Ball joins <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fda839118-c1af-429a-a1b9-993f8b2b5cce%3felinkdata%3d145615&amp;c=E,1,aXoJuLYw4p3fd0gte0H3-VlOq2_A-XOfwAo53rcHz9lggtobyK6T-DbcPqlwT8CsVIqc-o0MYEakVqYhOLNAY1C6Jyv25bac2t0NoBjuQKe_pU-KMg5_pQ,,&amp;typo=1\">Jordan Davis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f2c66a9e2-692b-4cbc-b203-26d6a827b87c%3felinkdata%3d145615&amp;c=E,1,PEpyvYqgqvtHUMU17DXoy78U1O3GFpfr4_iMTDwrrm-z8aUuYDy2Lzp7LRRWTN3TvPHu4_uLM4DTjq0GGxVeIDA3hJC_uW4JFcs-OJHrvMU9&amp;typo=1\">A.J. Cooper<\/a> as recipients of the award during the 2019-20 season. Davis and Cooper both received the honor in November (Davis 11\/13\/19, Cooper 11\/26\/19).<br><br> The No. 22 Tigers wrap up their regular season home schedule this week when they host third-ranked Nebraska-Kearney on Thursday (Feb. 13). Action in the MIAA dual is slated to begin at 7 p.m. The Tigers will honor Ball, Davis, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f32aa07e7-7166-41cb-8bba-e18016017b85%3felinkdata%3d145615&amp;c=E,1,0gnklJ8w52ZTkNvMM8Zxb4WgU37pUus_irxVdaw3DinvxFY9mM7EkjNp2Yyy08d6_Juh2qVN0WtxKMw57v1l3z793-C6UpZ6L0SyCz9SdWX2oQ,,&amp;typo=1\">Conrad Cole<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f36226ffa-fd26-474f-a8c4-3d949b022789%3felinkdata%3d145615&amp;c=E,1,HvB18UUN-QS1zdZ8gArbPsUROqGpK-aKQhkqz34Ss66AR1FOgjahYD61jSAITLm70Mv4Rk3AyomGxeEeOweOLuPbKLengJWCIrHP20JxmABC&amp;typo=1\">Dy&#8217;Juan Carney<\/a> in their final home dual with a Senior Night ceremony.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; After defeating a nationally ranked wrestler in his only action of the week, Fort Hays State wrestling&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":[7349,784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling"],"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\/53244","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=53244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53245,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244\/revisions\/53245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}