(Photo courtesy of Joshua Moczygemba)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Trinity University went 4-0 during the week and moved up one spot from ninth to eighth in the tenth D3baseball.com Top 25 poll of the 2013 regular season.
The Tigers won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship for the the fifth time in the last eight years with a perfect 3-0 record and are now 36-7 overall. Trinity has now won 31 of its last 36 games.
Linfield remained No. 1 with 622 points and was one of four teams to receive first place votes joining St. Thomas (Minn.) and Johns Hopkins. Trinity totaled 452 points in the poll, one point ahead of No. 9 Marietta (Ohio).
Trinity will await its its NCAA regional draw when the 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship field is announced on May 13.
D3baseball.com Top 25, week 10
Through games of Sunday April 28, 2013
| # | School (1st votes) | Record | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Linfield (22) | 32-5 | 622 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Thomas (2) | 22-4 | 578 | 4 |
| 3 | Cortland State | 31-8 | 520 | 6 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 28-5 | 516 | 7 |
| 5 | Kean | 30-8 | 502 | 2 |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins (1) | 33-5 | 492 | 3 |
| 7 | Salisbury | 30-7 | 478 | 5 |
| 8 | Trinity (Texas) | 36-7 | 452 | 9 |
| 9 | Marietta | 24-8 | 451 | 8 |
| 10 | Webster | 29-7 | 366 | 10 |
| 11 | Cal Lutheran | 31-7-1 | 341 | 11 |
| 12 | Keystone | 29-7 | 327 | 14 |
| 13 | Manchester | 28-5-1 | 295 | 15 |
| 14 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 27-10 | 293 | 12 |
| 15 | Ithaca | 30-6 | 287 | 18 |
| 16 | Southern Maine | 29-6 | 259 | 13 |
| 17 | Texas-Tyler | 32-10 | 230 | 17 |
| 18 | Wartburg | 28-6 | 157 | 20 |
| 19 | Bridgewater (Va.) | 31-9 | 149 | 23 |
| 20 | Illinois Wesleyan | 26-7 | 137 | 24 |
| 21 | Augustana | 26-8 | 130 | 16 |
| 22 | Concordia (Ill.) | 27-5 | 104 | 22 |
| 23 | UW-Stevens Point | 24-7 | 103 | RV |
| 24 | Christopher Newport | 29-12-1 | 78 | 21 |
| 25 | Millsaps | 32-11 | 53 | 25 |
Dropped out: No. 19 Ramapo
Others receiving votes: Western New England 32, Ramapo 22, Texas Lutheran 21, George Fox 16, Huntingdon 16, Shenandoah 15, Misericordia 15, Saint Joseph's (Maine) 13, Birmingham Southern 10, St. Scholastica 8, MIT 7, Gettysburg 4, Rowan 3, Wis.-Oshkosh 2, La Roche 2, Wooster 2, Pomona-Pitzer 2, Denison 1, Penn St.-Behrend 1.
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. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.
