{"id":75957,"date":"2016-12-10T03:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T08:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=75957"},"modified":"2016-12-09T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T03:41:13","slug":"75957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=75957","title":{"rendered":"Gardner signs letter of intent to play for Mercyhurst University"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75958\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=75958\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75958\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75958 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gardener-Signing-with-team-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"gardener-signing-with-team\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gardener-Signing-with-team-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gardener-Signing-with-team-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gardener-Signing-with-team-900x546.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gardener-Signing-with-team-400x243.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Gardner is pictured with the Herkimer Generals softball team, signing her letter of intent to play for Mercyhurst University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Herkimer College sophomore Jackie Gardner, of Syracuse, recently signed a letter of intent to play softball for Division II Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa. Gardner had a solid freshman season for the Generals last year, helping them to a 46-7 record, Mountain Valley Conference and Region III championships, and an NJCAA Division III national runner-up finish.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner saw time in the circle for Herkimer, as well as at first base and designated player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely proud and excited for Jackie, her <!--more-->family and for the Laker softball program,\u201d said Herkimer Head Coach PJ Anadio.\u00a0\u201cThey are not only getting a very talented softball player, but they are also getting a very talented student, a great leader and an incredible person to represent their program. Jackie has been an amazing ambassador of the game, our program and this college the past two years. We are extremely happy for the entire Gardner family!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mercyhurst Head Coach Leanne Baker said, \u201cWe are so lucky and grateful that Jackie has decided to make Mercyhurst her home for the remainder of her college career. Jackie is a great student, player and a better person. She will truly make us a better program, and I\u2019m thrilled for her and for us. It\u2019s a great day to be a Laker!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner will join Mercyhurst in the fall of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herkimer College sophomore Jackie Gardner, of Syracuse, recently signed a letter of intent to play softball for Division II Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa. Gardner had a solid freshman season for the Generals last year, helping them to a 46-7 record, Mountain Valley Conference and Region III championships, and an NJCAA Division III national runner-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}