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Oct. 12, 2014
HHS wins shootout
By AUSTIN COLBERT
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There was a time early in Friday’s
football game between Hays High School
and Dodge City where both defenses
were on point. The Red Demons held
Indian senior quarterback Alex Delton to
negative yardage on seven of his first 10
rush attempts, and the only first-quarter
points scored by HHS came via a 30-yard
blocked punt return by senior linebacker
Ethan Deterding on the first possession.
But over the final three quarters, there
was little resemblance of a defense on
either side in Hays High’s 64-50 win, one
that clinched the Indians a WAC title for
the first time since 2012.
“They came out with a defense we
weren’t very comfortable with. We didn’t
know they were going to come out with
it. It affected us, but coach (Bo Black)
worked around it and made some halftime
adjustments,” Delton said. “The offense
started clicking, everything started going
well. After that, the rest was history really.
Coach Black made some huge, good
halftime adjustments, which worked out
perfect for us.”
Hays High (6-0 overall, 4-0 WAC) tallied 519 yards of total offense, with Delton
accounting for 404 yards of it (273 pass,
131 rush), to hold off Dodge City (4-2, 2-1)
in both team’s final game before beginning
district play this week.
The Red Demons were no slouch,
either, totaling 449 yards of offense against
HHS, included 451 yards passing from
junior quarterback Caden Walters on 29
of 52 attempts.
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AUSTIN COLBERT • Hays Daily News
Hays High senior quarterback Alex Delton celebrates in the end zone
after scoring a touchdown against Dodge City on Friday at Lewis Field
Stadium.
FHSU
swept by
Bearcats
Tigers
4-2?
FHSU played
host to Missouri Western in
homecoming on
Saturday night.
hdnews.net
By AUSTIN COLBERT
[email protected]
ALCS
continues
The Royals’
quest for the
World Series
continued
Saturday.
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AUSTIN COLBERT • Hays Daily News
Fort Hays’ Tobias Patin dribbles the ball in front of Southern Nazarene’s Gustavo Mendoza on Saturday at the FHSU
Soccer Stadium. The Tigers won, 8-3.
No. 24 Tigers win again
By AUSTIN COLBERT
[email protected]
Great
catch
Curry Sexton
coming up big for
No. 17 Wildcats.
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Sprint
Cup
The Chase
for the
championship
continued
Saturday night in
Concord, N.C.
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What I’m
thinking
After seeing
Oakley on
Friday, it looks
as though
Oakley vs. Ellis will be for
a playoff spot
this week.
Nick McQueen
@HDNmcqueen
eight goals tied a school record set
in an 8-0 win over Lindenwood
Fort Hays State University’s
University on Sept. 25.
Diego Cabral feels lucky. Sure,
Leading the offensive effort
the men’s soccer team’s all-time
was freshman forward Maurizio
assists leader is good at what he
Costa, who recorded his first
does, but when you have so many hat trick with three goals against
weapons to pass to, it makes
SNU.
things a lot easier for the senior
“He did a great job of that
midfielder.
today, making great runs. His move“It’s easy for me because I have
ment was good and he got himself in
so many good people and so many good positions,” FHSU soccer coach
good players moving around me. It Brett Parker said of Costa. “He’s a
makes is way easier to make runs,”
big, strong kid and he likes to just
Cabral said. “There are games where really strike the ball. For him to just
you just see everything slower, in slow place balls and be smart about his
motion, and you can play the balls.
finishing today was good to see from
And there are games where it moves him.”
so fast and those spaces are not there.
The Tigers led 3-0 at halftime,
So it’s a lot of practice, mentally,
Costa scoring the first goal at 23:30
to get ready for the game.”
on an assist from Cabral. Junior
Cabral came through again on forward Joe Albright scored goals
Saturday, getting a school-record two and three late in the half to
five assists in the Tigers’ 8-3 win
reach the three-goal advantage at Fort Hays’ Diego Cabral dribbles the ball off
over Southern Nazarene Univer- the break.
his foot during Saturday’s match against
sity (3-9 overall, 2-5 MIAA) at
See FHSU, C3 Southern Nazarene.
the FHSU Soccer Stadium. The
The Fort Hays State
University volleyball team
was cruising along in the first
set against visiting Northwest
Missouri State University on
Saturday at Gross Memorial
Coliseum. Despite building a
19-14 lead, the Tigers were
helpless as it slowly disappeared in a 25-22 set loss.
“Offensively we didn’t do
our job today. It hurts you
against a team like this. Offensively they are pretty good.
They struggled at times today,
but they
took advantage
of the
things
we didn’t
do well,”
FHSU
coach Kurt
Kohler said.
“They took that first game
and I think it kind of deflated
us a little bit. I thought the
effort was there all day, we just
didn’t execute the skills that we
needed on the floor, and that’s
always going to cost you.”
The Tigers would also
lose the final two sets in a 3-0
loss to the Bearcats, the fifth
consecutive loss for FHSU
(7-11 overall, 2-8 MIAA). The
Tigers also fell to Missouri
Western University on Friday
night, 3-1.
FHSU played Northwest (99, 6-4) fairly even in the second
set, but let a 15-14 lead turn
into a 25-22 set loss. The third
set belonged to the Bearcats the
entire way, a 25-15 set win for
Northwest.
“It’s hard when you are down
2-0. I thought we really challenged there in the third set, too,
but we let Northwest Missouri
State take two different runs of
four points,” Kohler said. “You
can’t do that. You fall behind
so quickly that way. So we just
need to fix some of the execution issues that we have. We will
still be a good team. I think we
are a good team, we just need to
fix some problems.”
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HHS golf set to play in Class 4A Larned regional
By AUSTIN COLBERT
[email protected]
It was simply an awful
performance from Hays High
School senior golfer Lexie
Schaben, and one she wanted
to forget as soon as possible.
The girls’ golf season
opened on Sept. 2 with the
Hays Invitational at Smoky
Hill Country Club, where
Schaben, the team’s expected
leader entering the season,
shot a 15th-place 57 in the
nine-hole tournament, one
of her worst scores at Hays
High’s home course.
Distraught from her round,
Schaben decided to play
another nine holes that same
afternoon, and improved by
nine strokes on her tournament score.
“I don’t know, I wasn’t happy with my performance and
knew I could do a lot better.
So I wanted to prove myself,”
Schaben said. “I was so upset
at our Hays tournament that
I couldn’t contribute to the
team, being a senior leader.
Then toward the end of the
month being able to come
back is amazing, especially to
contribute to the team and set
an example for the underclassmen is great.”
Schaben steadily improved
at each tournament, finally
breaking through with a win
at the Liberal Invitational on
Sept. 25, where she outshot
the eventual WAC player of
the year, Garden City’s Danielle Gaspar, by four strokes.
She finished conference play
with a second-place round at
Great Bend last Tuesday, one
that helped clinch Hays High’s
first WAC title since 2006. “That was tough, to see
her play that way in that first
tournament. She wanted it so
NICK SCHWIEN • Hays Daily News
bad I think she just tried too
Hays
High
senior
Lexie
Schaben
blasts out of a bunker on
hard,” Indian coach Mark
hole
No.
2
during
the
HHS
Invitational
last month at Smoky
Watts said.
Hill
Country
Club.
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