{"id":25592,"date":"2026-04-07T14:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=25592"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:38:12","slug":"softball-to-host-faculty-and-staff-appreciation-day-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/04\/07\/softball-to-host-faculty-and-staff-appreciation-day-april-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball to host Faculty and Staff Appreciation game, April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Mercy Athletic Department is holding another faculty and staff appreciation game on <strong>Thursday, April 9,<\/strong> as the Titan softball team takes on Green Bay. The game is slated for a <strong>3 p.m. first pitch<\/strong> on Friday from Buysse Ballpark on the McNichols Campus.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans have 11 wins on the season and are 3-3 in Horizon League play early in the conference season. Detroit Mercy is also winners in four of its past five contests entering Friday&#8217;s home contest against the Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Admittance is <strong>FREE<\/strong>, and all faculty &amp; staff in attendance can pick up a complimentary Titans hat from the marketing table.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25591 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/04\/SB_4.10.png?resize=993%2C560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graphic for Titan Softball Faculty-Staff Appreciation. Detroit Mercy Titans versus Green Bay on Friday, April 10 at 3 p.m. at Buysse Ballpark. Faculty and staff receive a free Titans hat. A Detroit Mercy softball player in a red Titans uniform holds a bat on the right side of the graphic.\" width=\"993\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/04\/SB_4.10.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/04\/SB_4.10.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/04\/SB_4.10.png?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheer on Titan softball at Faculty &amp; Staff Appreciation Day, Thursday, April 9, at 3 p.m., at Buysse Ballpark with free admission and a complimentary Titans hat for all faculty and staff in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":25591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[7388,1625,7389,3575,1340,6953,6954],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/04\/SB_4.10.png?fit=825%2C464&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6EM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25592"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25602,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions\/25602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}