{"id":20627,"date":"2022-10-20T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/?p=20627"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:13:03","slug":"bat-cats-sign-mckenzie-standout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/bat-cats-sign-mckenzie-standout\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Bat Cats sign McKenzie standout<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat-Cats-Sign-McKenzie-Standout.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20630\" width=\"355\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat-Cats-Sign-McKenzie-Standout.jpg 453w, https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat-Cats-Sign-McKenzie-Standout-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><figcaption>FUTURE WILDCAT &#8211; Hayden Hixson signs to play Bethel baseball.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bethel Wildcat baseball program signed local standout Hayden Hixson Thursday. Hayden is the son of Eddie and Monica Hixson of McKenzie and will major in Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden is a standout with the McKenzie High School Rebels where he was named to the all-district team this past season. He was a key component of the success of the Rebels as they made it to the TSSAA State Tournament.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hixson is an Honors student at MHS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden feels his biggest strength is his versatility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Rusty Thompson commented, \u201cWe are always excited to sign a local student-athlete. Hayden is an exceedingly high character young man who has played at the high school and travel ball level. He is a part of a highly successful high school program and knows what it is like to win. He has a good understanding at the plate and is very versatile on defense.\u201d Thompson added, \u201cHayden is the type of student-athlete we want here, and we look forward to seeing him progress on and off the diamond.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bethel Wildcat baseball program signed local standout Hayden Hixson Thursday. Hayden is the son of Eddie and Monica Hixson of McKenzie and will major in Education.\u00a0 Hayden is a standout with the McKenzie High School Rebels where he was named to the all-district team this past season. He was a key component of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,247,261,242,294],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20631,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions\/20631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}