{"id":14315,"date":"2020-05-06T04:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T07:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14315"},"modified":"2020-05-06T04:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T07:30:59","slug":"gravel-commits-to-ncaa-division-1s-hill-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14315","title":{"rendered":"Gravel commits to NCAA Division 1&#8217;s Hill College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A baseball player from Fall River is moving a step closer to his dreams of one day playing in Major League Baseball (MLB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick Gravel, an infielder, has signed his National Letter of Intent to play with Hill College in Texas. The Rebels are an NCAA Division 1 team, filled with many Texas natives in their roster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made on Vauxhall Baseball Academy\u2019s Instagram page recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;36&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gravel-RIGHT.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14317\"\/><figcaption>Fall River&#8217;s Nick Gravel. (Vauxhall Baseball photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In September of 2019, Gravel competed in the T12 tournament hosted by the Toronto Blue Jays, playing alongside and against some of the 150 best players in Canada. The U.S. and Puerto Rico also took part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gravel, along with fellow Fall River product Shane Cowan, helped Team N.S. make history in August 2019 at the Canada Cup Baseball championships, as they defeated Ontario 3-2. Gravel\u2019s run to make it 3-0 was the game winner. It was Nova Scotia\u2019s first-ever baseball title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very excited to announce my commitment to Hill College in Texas,\u201d said Gravel. \u201cI would like to thank my family friends and coaches for supporting me through my journey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: A baseball player from Fall River is moving a step closer to his dreams of one day playing in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nick Gravel, an infielder, has signed his National Letter of Intent to play with Hill College in Texas. The Rebels are an NCAA Division 1 team, filled with many Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18,2,1072,633,1073],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball-n-s","tag-fall-river","tag-hill-college-rebels","tag-nick-gravel","tag-vauxhall-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}