{"id":71662,"date":"2023-03-05T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=71662"},"modified":"2023-03-05T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:46:49","slug":"tigers-lose-to-jennies-on-last-second-shot-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=71662","title":{"rendered":"Tigers lose to Jennies on last-second shot in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>File Photo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY RAEGAN NEUFELD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing in its sixth consecutive MIAA tournament semifinal game on Saturday, the Fort Hays women\u2019s basketball team fell 66-44 in overtime to the University of Central Missouri.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While FHSU (20-12)&nbsp; had lost its previous two games against UCM this season by a combined eight points, Saturday\u2019s game was another nail-biter. FHSU pushed the game to overtime with a last-second three-pointer from Jessie Sallach, but after five extra minutes, the Jennies made a last-second shot of their own to win the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought we played the best basketball we\u2019ve played all year the last two games,\u201d FHSU Head Coach Tony Hobson said. \u201cWe just needed it to last the last eight to ten games. You always want your team to play the best towards the end of the season, just not the last two games, you need a few more weeks of that. I was proud of the way they showed up this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tigers got off to a good start, doubling up on UCM 14-7 in the first quarter. The game went back and forth from there, and FHSU bested the Jennies in each scoring category. They shot 41.4 percent overall compared to 40.6 percent, 42.1 percent from three-point range compared to 22.2 percent, and 72.7 percent from the free throw line compared to 62.5 percent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key for UCM (25-3) was rebounds, as they pulled down five more than the Tigers. They also gave up four fewer turnovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie Wagner led FHSU with a game-high 25 points and a team-high ten rebounds, her 11th double-double of the season. Behind her was Megan Earney who had nine points and Olivia Hollenbeck who had eight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had a lot of kids have their moments,\u201d Hobson said. \u201cThat\u2019s how you have a good team. You need a bonafide star, and we\u2019ve got one, but they aren\u2019t going to win. You\u2019ve got to have somebody to go with them, and we do. We\u2019ve got a lot of good players and a lot of them stepped up tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Jennies, Olivia Nelson scored 20 points, followed by Ashley Tull who had 14 and the game-winning shot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking past the postseason, Fort Hays will return a majority of their roster, something Hobson touched on in the post-game press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe should get better,\u201d he said. \u201cThis should be the worst team we have in the next few years and it isn\u2019t that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wagner also spoke about the experience the team has and what impact that will have going forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of us are sophomores, some of us are in our third year,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of our game time, situational-based knowledge going into next year will be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCAA will announce the teams who advance to the Central Region tournament later tonight after conference tournaments conclude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Photo BY RAEGAN NEUFELD Playing in its sixth consecutive MIAA tournament semifinal game on Saturday, the Fort Hays women\u2019s basketball team fell 66-44 in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":71122,"comment_status":"closed","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":[11634,14402,3720,15122,12571],"class_list":["post-71662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-womens-basketball-sports","tag-fhsu-wbb","tag-katie-wagner","tag-miaa-tournament","tag-raegan-neufeuld","tag-tony-hobson-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/341A0517-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&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\/71662","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\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71663,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71662\/revisions\/71663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}