May 7, 2013 For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
907-479-4306
Five teams garner first-place votes
LINFIELD 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 D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches,
Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country,
and is published weekly.
NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL (MAY 7)
Rk.
School [1st place]
Record
Pts.
Pvs.
1.
Linfield [19]
34-6
618
1
2.
St. Thomas [2]
27-5
587
2
3.
UW-Whitewater [2]
30-5
567
4
4.
Cortland St. [1]
34-9
515
3
5.
Salisbury
30-7
503
7
6.
Trinity, Texas
36-7
456
8
7.
Cal Lutheran
34-7-1
437
11
8.
Marietta
28-10
387
9
9.
Kean
32-10
373
5
10.
Ithaca
32-6
365
15
11.
Keystone
33-7
362
12
12.
Manchester [1]
32-5-1
354
13
13.
Webster
29-8
338
10
14.
Johns Hopkins
36-8
320
6
15.
Wheaton, Mass.
30-10
316
14
16.
Southern Maine
33-7
243
16
17.
Texas-Tyler
35-10
225
17
18.
Augustana
29-8
182
21
19.
UW-Stevens Point
30-8
163
23
20.
Concordia, Ill.
31-5
147
22
21.
Wartburg
31-9
126
18
22.
Bridgewater, Va.
33-11
99
19
23.
Rowan
32-12
79
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24.
Millsaps
32-11
74
25
25.
Illinois Wesleyan
29-9
52
20
Also receiving votes: Christopher
Newport 41, Huntingdon 38, Western New England 25, Misericordia
24, George Fox 19, Saint Joseph's (Maine) 13, Shenandoah
12, Birmingham Southern 10, Wooster 9, St. Scholastica
7, Texas Lutheran 7, Case Western Reserve 6, Ramapo
5, Wisconsin-Oshkosh 4, Endicott 4, Pomona-Pitzer 2,
Coe 2, Eastern Connecticut State 1, Daniel Webster 1.
Dropped out: Christopher Newport
(24).
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