Fort Hays State (20-20) at
Northwestern Oklahoma State (17-25)
Tuesday, April 16 - 1 PM (DH)
Alva, Okla. - NWOSU Softball Field

Fort Hays State Softball goes on the road Tuesday (April 16) to Northwestern Oklahoma State for their final non-conference doubleheader of the season. Action is set to begin at 1 p.m. in Alva, Okla. The Tigers enter at 20-20 overall, while the Rangers are 17-25 overall. Live video and stats will be available for the games.
 
Fort Hays State is coming off a 3-1 weekend in MIAA play. The Tigers split a doubleheader with Lincoln before sweeping Central Missouri in Hays. The results moved FHSU back to .500 overall for the season. FHSU is now alone in 10^th in the MIAA standings, one game clear of Nebraska-Kearney with eight MIAA games to play yet this season.
 
Northwestern Oklahoma State dropped two of three conference games over the weekend at Arkansas-Monticello. The Rangers split their last home doubleheader with Southwestern Oklahoma State back on April 9. NWOSU sits in 11^th place out of 12 teams in the GAC standings.
 
Northwestern Oklahoma State Series Notes
Series Record: FHSU leads 4-3-1
-Fort Hays State defeated Northwestern Oklahoma State earlier this season by a score of 9-1 in Wichita Falls, Texas. The game ended by run-rule after five innings.
-Madison Pierce had a team-high 3 RBIs in the 9-1 win earlier this year, while Loren Beggs and Alondra Dominguez each had two in the game.
-Sarah Tiffany had three of the team's 10 hits in the 9-1 win earlier this season. She is coming off a 6-for-9 weekend (April 12-13) at the plate.
-Morgan Schmidt allowed just one hit to the Rangers in the 9-1 win, walking two with seven strikeouts. Schmidt had seven strikeouts in each of her starts last weekend (April 12-13).
-FHSU went 1-0-1 in the last doubleheader with NWOSU in Alva in 2022. Game two of that doubleheader was called in the sixth inning due to lightning with the teams tied 6-6. It was the only tie in FHSU Softball's NCAA Division II history.
 
Tiger Notes
· Savanah Egger ranks 23rd nationally in complete games with 16. She went the distance in 16 of her 20 starts this season. She ranks second in the MIAA in complete games.
· Loren Beggs has 47 doubles for her career at FHSU, which is second-most in program history. She is only two behind the record of 49 set by Hallie McMillen in 2009.
· Peyton Shepard has 37 career stolen bases, which is third-most in program history. She is only six shy of second-place on the list.
· Peyton Shepard leads FHSU with a .385 batting average. She has a team-high 52 hits on the season and leads the team in stolen bases with 18. Shepard leads the team in multi-hit games this season with 17.
·  Carly Stuke leads the team in extra-base hits with nine, followed by Loren Beggs with 8. Beggs leads the team in RBIs with 20, followed by Stuke with 17. Beggs and Stuke are tied for the team lead in home runs, each with two.
· FHSU has has 18 sacrifice flies for the season, which ranks second in the MIAA and 11^th in NCAA Division II. Lilliana Ramirez-Johnson has 4 this season, which is second-most in the MIAA.
· FHSU reached at least 20 wins in a season for the fourth-straight year. The streak could have been six-straight years had it not been for the COVID-shortened 2020 season when FHSU went 15-13 through mid-March. The Tigers also won at least 20 in 2019.