April 25, 2017
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
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Oswego State moves into Top 10
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SHENANDOAH 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.

Rk. School [1st place] Location Record Pts. Pvs.
1. Shenandoah [16] Winchester, Va. 31-3 615 1
2. LaGrange [8] LaGrange, Ga. 38-4 604 2
3. Birmingham-Southern [1] Birmingham, Ala. 32-6 576 4
4. Texas-Tyler Tyler, Texas 31-5 535 6
5. Wooster Wooster, Ohio 24-5 500 7
6. UW-Whitewater Whitewater, Wis. 23-5 487 3
7. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, Md. 28-6 467 9
8. Cortland Cortland, N.Y. 29-7 447 5
9. Oswego State Oswego, N.Y. 23-8 384 14
10. Tufts Medford, Mass. 21-5-1 364 8
11. Centenary Shreveport, La. 31-7 353 10
12. Salisbury Salisbury, Md. 30-8 345 16
13. La Roche Pittsburgh, Pa. 26-6 328 17
14. Randolph-Macon Ashland, Va. 24-10 251 11
15. St. John Fisher Pittsford, N.Y. 23-6 250 18
16. TCNJ Ewing, N.J. 23-8 229 13
17. Texas-Dallas Richardson, Texas 28-9 227 15
18. Salve Regina Newport, R.I. 27-5 196 21
19. Washington & Jefferson Washington, Pa. 23-7 143 19
20. Washington U. St. Louis, Mo. 20-8 134 20
21. Cal Lutheran Thousand Oaks, Calif. 26-9 130 22
22. St. Joseph's Standish, Maine 26-6 93 24
23. Mount Union Alliance, Ohio 25-7 81 23
24. Alvernia Reading, Pa. 23-10-2 59 12
25. Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 22-7 52 -
Also receiving votes: Emory 48, Bethel (Minn.) 44, DePauw 38, Misericordia 24, Otterbein 22, Adrian 15, Keystone 13, Denison 12, Linfield 10, St. Scholastica 9, Westfield State 7, Augustana (Ill.) 6, Wheaton (Mass.) 5, St. Joseph's (L.I.) 4, Castleton 3, Thomas More 3, Webster 2, Rochester Tech 2, Arcadia 1, Marietta 1, UMass.-Boston 1, WPI 1.
Dropped out: No. 25 Emory.

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2017 NCBWA Division III Polls (No. 1 Team):
Preseason (Cortland)
Feb. 28 (Emory)
March 7 (Emory)
March 14 (Emory)
March 21 (Shenandoah)
March 28 (Shenandoah)
April 4 (Shenandoah)
April 11 (Shenandoah)
April 18 (Shenandoah)
April 25 (Shenandoah)
May 2 (LaGrange)
May 9 (LaGrange)
May 16 (LaGrange)
Final (Cal Lutheran)