May 10, 2016 For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
907-479-4306
Red Dragons receive 23 of 25 first-place votes
CORTLAND 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 10)
Rk.
School [1st place]
Record
Pts.
Pvs.
1.
Cortland [23]
37-5
623
1
2.
Randolph-Macon [2]
32-6-1
565
2
3.
Trinity (Texas)
35-7
563
3
4.
UW-La Crosse
31-8
544
4
5.
Birmingham-Southern
37-11
521
5
6.
Emory
30-10
467
6
7.
Oswego State
32-9
415
7
8.
Ramapo
33-10-1
384
9
9.
Shenandoah
32-10
365
8
10.
Salisbury
25-10
351
10
11.
Southern Maine
29-11
347
19
12.
La Roche
32-8
305
18
13.
North Central (Ill.)
28-8
298
12
14.
Cal Lutheran
31-11
249
24
15.
UW-Whitewater
27-12
248
11
16.
Wartburg
31-9
223
20
17.
Occidental
32-10
219
13
18.
TCNJ
30-10
195
16
19.
Concordia-Chicago
29-11
173
14
20.
Whitworth
29-11
163
21
21.
Keystone
30-9
133
22
22.
Buena Vista
31-9
129
23
23.
Frostburg State
30-12
119
17
24.
St. Thomas
25-13
77
15
25.
Wheaton (Mass.)
30-11
61
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Also receiving votes: Tufts 60,
St. John Fisher 53, Misericordia 47, St. Scholastica
36, Otterbein 32, Wooster 28, Grinnell 24, Marietta
16, Case Western Reserve 15, McDaniel 14, Centenary
(La.) 10, Western New England 7, Texas Lutheran 5, Webster
4, Texas-Tyler 3, Johns Hopkins 3, Denison 2, Hardin-Simmons
2, Haverford 2, Ohio Wesleyan 2, Amherst 2, Castleton
1, Endicott 1, LaGrange 1.
Dropped out: No. 25 Grinnell.
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