{"id":435201,"date":"2026-09-14T02:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435201\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:14:47","slug":"%e2%9a%bd-tigers-men-play-to-draw-with-chaps-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435201\/","title":{"rendered":"\u26bd Tigers men play to draw with Chaps in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789305239591.jpeg\" alt=\"FHSU Athletics photo\/Brynn Ray\"\/>FHSU Athletics photo\/Brynn Ray<\/p>\n<p>FHSU Athletics<\/p>\n<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 The 25th-ranked Fort Hays State men&#8217;s soccer team played to a 1-1 draw with Lubbock Christian on Saturday. The Tigers moved to 2-1-2 overall for the season, while the Chaparrals moved to 2-3-1 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State recorded 16 of its 18 shots in the second half, following a scoreless first half between the teams. Lubbock Christian broke the stalemate with a goal by Alex Lachevre in the 73rd minute, but just two minutes later in the 75th minute the Tigers leveled the game at 1-1 on a Len Valkema header off a corner kick by Juan Linares. It was Valkema&#8217;s third goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>With the Tigers constantly firing shots in the second half, Lubbock Christian goalkeeper Milo Paci had to make nine saves to help his team to a draw. FHSU goalkeeper Payton Roehrich made two saves in the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers will continue to work with West Texas A&amp;M on figuring out a date to finish the suspended match from Thursday (Sept. 10), which sits scoreless just over 50 minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State will open GAC\/MIAA play on Thursday evening (Sept. 17) when it plays host to Rogers State at 7 p.m. in Hays, Kan. Rogers State is ranked No. 9 in the latest national poll.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays St. Top Performers<br \/>Len Valkema \u2013 1 equalizing goal, 4 shots<br \/>Juan Linares \u2013 1 assist<br \/>Gregoire Henri &#8211; 4 shots with 3 on goal<br \/>Oliver Wright &#8211; 3 shots, all on goal<br \/>Payton Roehrich \u2013 2 saves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FHSU Athletics photo\/Brynn Ray FHSU Athletics LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 The 25th-ranked Fort Hays State men&#8217;s soccer team played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-435201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}