{"id":8587,"date":"2016-06-02T07:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2016-06-02T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:31:39","slug":"megan-good-jailyn-ford-earn-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8587","title":{"rendered":"Megan Good &#038; Jailyn Ford Earn All America Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8589\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8589\" data-attachment-id=\"8589\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=8589\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/042915-JMU-VT-SFB3-DL.jpg?fit=700%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,554\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Daniel Lin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;(4\\\/29\\\/15) - (Harrisonburg) \\rJames Madison freshman Megan Good delivers a pitch to Virginia Tech.\\r(Daniel Lin\\\/Daily News-Record)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1430341562&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Daily News-Record&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;JMU-VT SFB&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JMU-VT SFB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/042915-JMU-VT-SFB3-DL.jpg?fit=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/042915-JMU-VT-SFB3-DL.jpg?fit=700%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8589\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/042915-JMU-VT-SFB3-DL.jpg?resize=546%2C432\" alt=\"Megan Good\" width=\"546\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/042915-JMU-VT-SFB3-DL.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/042915-JMU-VT-SFB3-DL.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Good<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The headline pretty much says it all. Never in the history of JMU softball has a player been named to the National Fast Pitch Coaches All-America team. Now two have. Sophomore sensation Megan Ford and Jailyn Ford, the greatest player in program history, both made the first team. Both players had earned All America status before, but never first team. Good was second team last year, while Ford made second team in 2014, and third team last season.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were Ford and Good deserving of All America recognition, their selection is further proof that JMU&#8217;s top 10 ranking and rise to national prominence was no fluke. Coach Mickey Dean is building a championship contender and he&#8217;s doing it with top tier talent. As a pitcher, Good lead the nation in wins with 32 and had an era of 0.94. Ford went 18-3 with a 1.03 ERA. And she wasn&#8217;t bad with a bat in her hand either, leading the team in homers, triples, total bases, and slugging.<\/p>\n<p>The loss to LSU still stings, but it shouldn&#8217;t overshadow the fact that the JMU softball team as a whole had a season for the ages. And that was largely due to the outstanding duo of Megan Good and Jailyn Ford.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8587&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline pretty much says it all. Never in the history of JMU softball has a player been named to the National Fast Pitch Coaches All-America team. Now two have. Sophomore sensation Megan Ford and Jailyn Ford, the greatest player in program history, both made the first team. Both players had earned All America status [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8490,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8490","url_meta":{"origin":8587,"position":0},"title":"Megan Good Pitches Second Perfect Game in JMU Softball History","date":"April 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was a good day for JMU softball. In fact it, you could say it was a Megan Good day. (ed. note: please pretend you didn't read that sentence and we'll pretend we never wrote it.) The team won, because that's what it does. 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If things keep up, we'll have something we don't typically\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"sb rankings","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sb-rankings.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9261,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9261","url_meta":{"origin":8587,"position":4},"title":"Megan Good is One of the Top 10 Softball Players in the Country","date":"February 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We all knew Megan Good was, well, good (sorry). That's obvious to anyone who's every seen her play. But it's not just JMU fans who are so impressed with her abilities. ESPN named Good the sixth best softball player in the country in its annual NCAA softball preview. 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