{"id":150621,"date":"2026-03-28T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150621\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:28:09","slug":"mercyhurst-drops-its-struggling-division-i-mens-hockey-program-as-part-of-its-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150621\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercyhurst drops its struggling Division I men&#8217;s hockey program as part of its master plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MULQ5VQ7IVHI7PJIJHURMH6OFY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Mercyhurst will drop its Division I men\u2019s hockey program at the end of the academic year as part of a university-wide master plan, the 2,600-student private school announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AH25EJQPNZFIHBUH4TEFWHUYQM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Lakers finished 6-28-3 this season and were last in Atlantic Hockey for the second straight year. They haven\u2019t won 10 games in a season since 2022-23, and average attendance of 721 per game ranked 64th out of 67 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Mercyhurst will drop its Division I men\u2019s hockey program at the end of the academic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45197,2300,136,138,137,68704,5158,726],"class_list":["post-150621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-college-hockey","tag-college-sports","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-hkc-mercyhurst-dropping-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}