May 17, 2016 For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
907-479-4306
Red Dragons receive 24 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 17)
Rk.
School [1st place]
Record
Pts.
Pvs.
1.
Cortland [24]
37-5
624
1
2.
Randolph-Macon [1]
32-6-1
581
2
3.
Trinity (Texas)
35-7
570
3
4.
UW-La Crosse
34-8
552
4
5.
Birmingham-Southern
37-11
497
5
6.
Emory
30-10
490
6
7.
Oswego State
32-9
429
7
8.
Ramapo
33-10-1
408
8
9.
Shenandoah
32-10
387
9
10.
Salisbury
25-10
378
10
11.
La Roche
36-9
367
12
12.
Cal Lutheran
31-11
304
14
13.
Concordia-Chicago
32-11
262
19
14.
UW-Whitewater
29-14
247
15
15.
Keystone
33-9
223
21
16.
North Central (Ill.)
30-10
211
13
17.
Southern Maine
29-13
175
11
18.
Whitworth
29-11
170
20
19.
Wartburg
33-11
168
16
20.
TCNJ
30-10
154
18
21.
Tufts
32-6
136
rv
22.
Occidental
32-10
126
17
23.
Wheaton (Mass.)
30-11
125
25
24.
Misericordia
34-11
104
rv
25.
St. John Fisher
34-11
67
rv
Also receiving votes: Wooster
64, Frostburg State 57, St. Scholastica 33, Buena Vista
26, Mass-Boston 19, Case Western Reserve 19, Augustana
(Ill.) 19, Marietta 18, Luther 16, St. Thomas (Minn.)
11, Old Westbury 11, McDaniel 10, Otterbein 9, Johns
Hopkins 8, Saint John's (Minn.) 6, Texas Lutheran 5,
Haverford 5, Grinnell 4, Ohio Wesleyan 3, Ithaca 2,
Rose-Hulman 1.
Dropped out: No. 22 Buena Vista,
No. 23 Frostburg State, No. 24 St. Thomas (Minn.)
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