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March 17, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bo Carter
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Defending champs replace Salisbury atop rankings

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D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.

The poll voters come from 25 college baseball writers, sports information directors and related media persons from throughout the nation.

NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL (MARCH 17)
Rk.	School [1st place]	Record	Pts.	Pvs.
1.	Trinity (Conn.) [18]	4-0	604	2
2.	Salisbury [7]	14-2	589	1
3.	Heidelberg	10-2	485	6
4.	Texas-Tyler	17-4	473	3
5.	Eastern Connecticut	4-0	435	8
6.	Millsaps	19-2	430	12
7.	Chapman	15-5	429	11
8.	Kean	10-3	409	4
9.	St. Scholastica	11-2	400	9
10.	Wooster	9-2	359	14
11.	Cortland State	9-3	306	15
12.	Wheaton (Mass.)	9-1	305	23
13.	Southern Maine	2-1	301	7
14.	Johns Hopkins	3-3	271	5
15.	Cal Lutheran	15-3	267	17
16.	UW-Whitewater	1-2	255	10
17.	Christopher Newport	10-2-1	237	19
18.	Marietta	5-2	234	13
19.	Pomona-Pitzer	16-2	150	-
20.	Linfield	13-3	148	25
21.	Augustana	11-3	125	24
22.	UW-Oshkosh	0-0	124	22
23.	Thiel	11-3	115	18
24.	Adrian	4-4	99	21
25.	Carthage	3-0	96	-
Others receiving votes: St. Thomas 89, Illinois Wesleyan 72, George Fox 68, Shenandoah 42, Oneonta State 27, Virginia Wesleyan 25, York (Pa.) 23, UW-Stevens Point 16, Rowan 16, John Carroll 16, St. Olaf 15, Redlands 12, Pacific Lutheran 9, Birmingham-Southern 8, Rose-Hulman 7, Transylvania 6, Mount St. Mary 5, Penn State-Behrend 4, Ripon 4, Beloit 4, Methodist 3, Rochester 3, Rhodes 2, University of Dallas 1, Emory 1, Piedmont 1.
Dropped out: Illinois Wesleyan, St. Thomas.

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2009 NCBWA Division III Polls (No. 1 Team):
• Preseason (Cortland State) • Feb. 24 (Salisbury) • March 3 (Salisbury) • March 10 (Salisbury) • March 17 (Trinity [Conn.]) • March 24 (Eastern Connecticut) • March 31 (Eastern Connecticut)	• April 7 (Eastern Connecticut) • April 14 (Millsaps) • April 21 (Southern Maine) • April 28 (Southern Maine) • May 5 (Southern Maine) • May 12 (Pomona-Pitzer) • May 29 (St. Thomas)

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