MIKE GARRISON
Fort Hays State quarterback and Shawnee Mission Northwest product Mike Garrison was nice enough to chat with Sunflower Slate for a few minutes Thursday evening about a wide range of topics — from trying to get the Tigers into the MIAA discussion (might happen), getting his jaw broken (not fun) and winning a national football title at Butler Community College (where he also played basketball). Oh, and he let us take a peek into his IPod, where he’s rocking Disturbed.
JACIE HOYT
Here’s this from today’s Eagle, compliments of WSU beat writer Paul Suellentrop:
Hoyt to Fort Hays State – Guard Jacie Hoyt, who started all 31 games for Wichita State last season, will transfer to Fort Hays State.
Hoyt will be eligible immediately at the NCAA Division II school. She averaged 7.2 points and 3.7 assists for the Shockers as a sophomore.
What’s it mean? It means that the Tigers, who already had the best returning post player in Erica Biel — a 6-foot-1 DI transfer from Missouri State — now also have arguably the best guard in the conference along with Emporia State’s Cassondra Boston. Biel was a first-team all-MIAA pick this season, one of two players who also made the all-defensive team. EB averaged 16.4 points — third in the MIAA — and led the league with 11.3 rebounds per game. She also led FHSU to its first MIAA tourney berth. With Hoyt … fugheddaboutit. They’ll be one of the best teams in the MIAA next year, if not the region. Pretty amazing she left WSU after starting 31 games there last year, though. But I guess if you can’t take it no more …
So there’s a lot of small colleges in Kansas, which means a lot of football teams which means … a lot of dudes going to play college ball. Which means that hopefully I’ve got everybody here — for sake of space and not making you sift through everything I’m putting links to the school’s specific web sites and recruiting lists and in the cases where that doesn’t exist, I’ve just typed the names in. With a few thoughts of my own added, of course. Today is a breakdown of the MIAA schools, tomorrow (hopefully) we’ll take a look at the KCAC and then this weekend sometime, the Jayhawk.
Enjoy:
Just in from ESU-FHSU game Saturday:
EMPORIA — Emporia State scored on four of its five possessions in the first half and used ball control and a stingy defense on its way to 24-13 victory over Fort Hays State at Jones Field on Saturday.
Looks like Emporia quarterback Andre Sloan El ran for 72 yards and a touchdown and threw for 90 yards and a touchdown. Like I’ve said before, he’s hard to handle.
Andre Sloan El, ESU (ESU Image)