{"id":71754,"date":"2023-03-09T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=71754"},"modified":"2023-03-09T08:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:16:39","slug":"tennis-falls-to-bearcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=71754","title":{"rendered":"Tennis falls to Bearcats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KEARNEY, Neb. &#8211; Fort Hays State Tennis dropped its conference-opening match of the 2022-23 season to Northwest Missouri State on Wednesday afternoon (Mar. 8) at the Ernest Grundy Tennis Center in Kearney. The Bearcats won 7-0 moving to 7-3 overall, 1-0 MIAA, while the Tigers moved to 5-4 overall, 0-1 MIAA.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The No. 2 doubles team of&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/1a50cbb0-1a33-4664-8d7c-122572883d2c?elinkdata=206678\">Heidi Lubbers<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/32685f97-3a6e-4b6c-a907-0bd0d7c871b2?elinkdata=206678\">Fiorella Mendez<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;came up just shy of a win, falling 6-4 to Vera Alenicheva and Carolina DeOliveira. The Bearcats clinched the one team point for doubles by surrendering just one point between the No. 1 and No. 3 matches.&nbsp;The Bearcats clinched their win as a team by allowing just one game point over the No. 1, 5, and 6 singles matches to go up 4-0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being outscored 6-1 in her first set,&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/d468cccb-6a51-43d8-bb31-bc29aca4687e?elinkdata=206678\">Irina Alfonso<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;(No. 2) nearly forced a tiebreaker in the second set falling 7-5 to Tyffaine Pais.&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/468758c5-d414-4f70-8c37-063260703a58?elinkdata=206678\">Fiorella Mendez<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;also nearly forced a tiebreaker in her second set at the No. 3 singles spot. Mendez won the most games by a Tiger on the day with eight in her contest, dropping the match by scores of 6-3, 7-5.&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/211774bf-f0db-4b6f-aa41-e5477af56baf?elinkdata=206678\">Maria Paz Diaz<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;(No. 4) notched five games in a 6-3, 6-2 loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tigers will square off with another conference foe on Thursday (Mar. 9) at 2:00 pm against Washburn. The event will also be at the&nbsp;Ernest Grundy Tennis Center in Kearney, Neb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KEARNEY, Neb. &#8211; Fort Hays State Tennis dropped its conference-opening match of the 2022-23 season to Northwest Missouri State on Wednesday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[7349,3406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-tennis"],"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\/71754","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=71754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71755,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71754\/revisions\/71755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}