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April 20, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
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Blue Jays take over top spot from St. Thomas

JOHNS HOPKINS TOPS NCBWA
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 (APRIL 20)
Rk.	School [1st place]	Record	Pts.	Pvs.
1.	Johns Hopkins [11]	30-3	600	5
2.	UW-Whitewater [10]	23-2	594	3
3.	St. Thomas [1]	20-4	552	1
4.	Chapman	24-7	489	2
5.	Marietta	24-6	485	7
6.	Birmingham-Southern [3]	33-4	467	13
7.	Wooster	25-7	462	6
8.	Heidelberg	24-6	455	4
9.	St. Scholastica	26-3	428	14
10.	Shenandoah	33-7	428	9
11.	Cortland State	24-6	356	15
12.	Pomona-Pitzer	26-8	324	10
13.	Mississippi College	28-7	280	16
14.	Rose-Hulman	23-6	276	18
15.	Redlands	27-6	247	11
16.	Trinity, Conn.	14-6	222	8
17.	Eastern Connecticut	19-7	214	17
18.	Salisbury	24-8	209	12
19.	Trinity, Texas	28-7	173	19
20.	Pacific Lutheran	27-7	154	20
21.	Rochester	24-4	145	25
22.	UW-Stevens Point	18-7	117	21
23.	Kean	20-9	106	22
24.	Wheaton, Mass.	21-7	60	-
25.	Texas-Tyler	28-10	48	23
Also receiving votes: Tufts 33, Washington and Jefferson 33, Keystone 23, North Central, Ill. 19, Linfield 17, Texas Lutheran 16, Wheaton, Ill. 14, Plattsburgh State 12, Hampden-Sydney 11, Hope 7, Mary Washington 7, Augustana 7, Adrian 7, Concordia, Ill. 6, Bowdoin 6, Western New England 5, Millsaps 3, FDU-Florham 3, Worcester State 2, Buena Vista 1, Curry 1, Rhodes 1.
Dropped out: Wheaton, Ill. (24).

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2010 NCBWA Division III Polls (No. 1 Team):
• Preseason (St. Thomas) • March 2 (St. Thomas) • March 9 (St. Thomas) • March 16 (St. Thomas) • March 23 (St. Thomas) • March 30 (St. Thomas) • April 6 (St. Thomas)	• April 13 (St. Thomas) • April 20 (Johns Hopkins) • April 27 (Johns Hopkins) • May 4 (Johns Hopkins) • May 11 (Johns Hopkins) • May 18 (Johns Hopkins) • Final (Illinois Wesleyan)

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