May 14, 2013 For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
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Four 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 14)
Rk.
School [1st place]
Record
Pts.
Pvs.
1.
Linfield [16]
34-6
613
1
2.
St. Thomas [7]
33-5
606
2
3.
Cortland State
34-9
521
4
4.
Salisbury
30-7
502
5
5.
UW-Whitewater
34-7
488
3
6.
Trinity, Texas [1]
36-7
463
6
7.
Ithaca
34-6
462
10
8.
Cal Lutheran
34-7-1
455
7
9.
Manchester [1]
35-5-1
406
12
10.
Kean
34-10
379
9
11.
Keystone
33-8
326
11
12.
Webster
32-9
317
13
13.
Marietta
29-12
308
8
14.
Southern Maine
37-7
293
16
15.
Wheaton, Mass.
30-10
288
15
16.
UW-Stevens Point
35-9
274
19
17.
Johns Hopkins
36-8
237
14
18.
Texas-Tyler
35-10
235
17
19.
Concordia, Ill.
36-5
181
20
20.
Augustana
32-9
161
18
21.
Wartburg
34-9
117
21
22.
Rowan
32-12
94
23
23.
Millsaps
34-11
79
24
24.
Bridgewater, Va.
33-11
73
22
25.
Illinois Wesleyan
32-12
42
25
Also receiving votes: Misericordia
34, Huntingdon 31, Christopher Newport 30, Western New
England 24, Wooster 19, Case Western Reserve 13, George
Fox 11, Birmingham-Southern 10, Texas Lutheran 7, Shenandoah
7, St. Scholastica 6, St. Joseph's (Maine) 4, Ramapo
3, Penn State-Behrend 2, Endicott 2, Pomona-Pitzer 1,
La Roche 1.
Dropped out: None.
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