Trinity Falls to Eighth in ABCA; 11th in D3baseball.com Polls.

Trinity Falls to Eighth in ABCA; 11th in D3baseball.com Polls.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - The Trinity University baseball team dropped to No. 8 in the nation in the latest ABCA poll and has fallen to No. 11 in the D3baseball.com poll.

The Tigers (21-6), who have lost five of their last six games after posting a 16-game winning sreak, had a tough week. Trinity lost a non-conference game on Tuesday to No. 11/12 Concordia (TX), 5-1, before dropping three straight to former SCAC foe Hendrix College over the weekend. It was the first time the Tigers have been on the wrong end of a three-game series sweep since April of 2007.

Trinity will stay on the road as they take on Hardin-Simmons on Tuesday in Abilene and follow that up with a road weekend series in Kerrville, Texas against Schreiner University.

D3baseball.com Poll
Through games of Sunday March 30, 2014

# School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Linfield (21) 21-3 621 1
2 UW-Stevens Point (4) 10-1 591 2
3 Kean 14-4 502 4
4 Webster 12-3 496 6
5 Southern Maine 12-4 489 5
6 Cortland State 14-4 473 7
7 Concordia-Chicago 12-2 435 10
8 Cal Lutheran 20-5 430 13
9 UW-Whitewater 10-2 424 14
10 Rowan 11-3 398 8
11 Trinity (Texas) 21-6 318 3
12 Concordia (Texas) 19-3 287 16
13 St. Thomas 9-5 266 9
14 Salisbury 13-6 258 15
15 Birmingham-Southern 21-6 242 12
16 Johns Hopkins 12-2 236 17
17 Shenandoah 18-4 234 19
18 Marietta 12-6 208 11
19 Rhodes 21-6 202 20
20 Heidelberg 15-4 187 23
21 Case Western Reserve 14-4 153 22
22 St. John Fisher 12-1 124 21
23 George Fox 20-6 104 rv
24 Tufts 12-1 82 rv
25 Buena Vista 13-3 57 25

Dropped out:  No. 18 Mount Union, No. 24 Wheaton (Mass.).

Others receiving votes: Endicott 55, Wheaton (Mass.) 32, Mary Hardin-Baylor 27, Emory 27, York (Pa.) 16, Hampden-Sydney 15, UW-Oshkosh 13, Ithaca 11, Augustana (Ill.) 10, Moravian 10, Lynchburg 9, Farmingdale State 8, Berry 7, Wooster 7, Dickinson 6, Baldwin Wallace 5, Susquehanna 4, Alvernia 4, Adrian 4, Mount Union 3, Rensselaer 3, LeTourneau 3, Wartburg 2, Covenant 2, Colby 1, Bridgewater (Va.) 1.

 

ABCA Poll
Through games of Sunday March 30, 2014

 Rank School

Record* Points

Last Rank

 

1. Linfield (Ore.) (16)

21-3

480

1

 
 

2. Wis.-Stevens Point

10-1

462

3

 
 

3. Cal Lutheran

20-5

432

6

 
 

4. Southern Maine

12-4

419

5

 
 

5. Kean (N.J.)

14-4

410

4

 
 

6. Webster (Mo.)

12-3

396

7

 
 

7. Cortland (N.Y.) State

14-4

346

8

 
 

8. Trinity (Texas) 

21-6

343

2

 
 

9. Concordia-Chicago

12-2

338

9

 
 

10. Wis.-Whitewater

10-2

333

11

 
 

11. Concordia (Texas)

19-3

306

17

 
 

12. Birmingham-Southern (Ala.)

21-6

277

10

 
 

13.  Heidelberg (Ohio)

15-4

275

14

 
 

14. Rhodes (Tenn.)

21-6

254

16

 
 

15.  Rowan (N.J.)

11-3

239

15

 
 

16. St. John Fisher (N.Y.)

12-1

233

20

 
 

17. Johns Hopkins (Md.)

12-2

206

19

 
 

18. Marietta (Ohio)

12-6

202

13

 
 

19. George Fox (Ore.)

20-6

185

23

 
 

20. Tufts (Mass.)

12-1

164

24

 
 

21. St. Thomas (Minn.)

  9-5

161

12

 
 

22. Salisbury (Md.)

13-6

148

18

 
 

23. Case Western (Ohio)

14-4

145

22

 
 

24. Shenandoah (Va.)

18-4

141

26

 
 

25. Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas)

17-6

75

21

 
 

26. Buena Vista (Iowa)

13-3

72

25

 
 

27. Endicott (Mass.)

  9-2

68

rv

 
 

28. York (Pa.)

11-2

66

27

 
 

29. Lynchburg (Va.)

15-4

51

30

 
 

30. Emory (Ga.)

20-9

39

29

 

* records through games of March 30

 

Also receiving votes: Susquehanna (Pa.) 25, Hampden-Sydney (Va.) 18, Berry (Ga.) 17, Rensselaer (N.Y.) 12,

Amherst (Mass.) 11, Ithaca (N.Y.) 7, Wheaton (Mass.) 5, Willamette (Ore.) 4, Ferrum (Va.) 3, Alvernia (Pa.) 3, Farmingdale (N.Y.) State 1, Frostburg (Md.) State 1, Hendrix (Ark.) 1, Moravian (Pa.) 1, St. Norbert (Wis.) 1.