(Photo courtesy of Joshua Moczygemba)
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - In the ninth American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III poll of the 2013 regular season, Trinity University stayed steady at third.
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 the weekend of April 25-28 and are now 36-7 overall. Trinity has now won 31 of its last 36 games.
Linfield remained No. 1 with 478 points. Trinity totaled 424 points in the poll, 12 points ahead of No. 4 Salisbury.
Trinity opens up the 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball
Championship West Regional with a game on May 15 against California
Lutheran.
American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate
Baseball
NCAA Division III Baseball
Poll
| Rank | School |
Record | Points | Last Week |
| 1 | Linfield (Ore.) |
34-6 | 478 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Thomas
(Minn.) |
33-5 |
465 |
2 |
| 3 | Trinity
(Texas) |
36-7 |
424 |
3 |
| 4 | Salisbury (Md.) |
30-7 |
412 |
4 |
| 5 | Cal Lutheran |
34-7-1 |
404 |
6 |
| 6 |
Wisconsin-Whitewater |
34-7 |
378 |
5 |
| 7 | Cortland State
(N.Y.) |
34-9 |
370 |
7 |
| 8 | Southern Maine |
37-7 |
366 |
9 |
| 9 | Ithaca (N.Y.) |
34-6 |
362 |
8 |
| 10 | Kean (N.J.) |
34-10 |
310 |
11 |
| 11 | Wheaton (Mass.) |
30-10 |
305 |
13 |
| 12 | Webster (Mo.) |
32-9 | 280 |
12 |
| 13 | Manchester (Ind.) |
35-5-1 |
274 |
15 |
| 14 | Marietta (Ohio) |
29-12 |
265 |
10 |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins
(Md.) |
36-8 |
236 |
14 |
| 16 | Keystone (Pa.) |
33-8 |
235 |
16 |
| 17 | Texas-Tyler |
35-10 |
226 |
17 |
| 18 | Wisconsin-Stevens
Point |
33-9 |
196 |
20 |
| 19 | Concordia-Chicago |
36-5 |
186 |
19 |
| 20 | Millsaps (Miss.) |
34-11 |
170 |
21 |
| 21 | Wartburg (Iowa) |
34-9 |
168 | 23 |
| 22 | Huntingdon (Ala.) |
30-9 |
151 | 22 |
| 23 | Illinois Wesleyan |
32-12 |
121 | 18 |
| 24 | Bridgewater (Va.) |
33-11 |
103 | 24 |
| 25 | Rowan (N.J.) |
32-12 |
86 |
28 |
| 26 | Augustana (Ill.) |
32-9 |
77 |
29 |
| 27 | Wooster (Ohio) |
32-10 |
72 |
30 |
| 28 | Misericordia
(Pa.) |
36-9 |
65 |
27 |
| 29 | George Fox (Ore.) |
26-12 |
61 |
25 |
| 30 | Christopher Newport
(Va.) |
29-12-1 |
48 |
26 |
Also receiving votes: Alvernia (Pa.) 22, Endicott (Mass.) 20,
Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) 19, Texas Lutheran 17, MIT 13, Western New
England (Mass.) 12, Washington & Jefferson (Pa.) 11, Case
Western Reserve (Ohio) 6, St. Joseph's (Maine) 3, Farmingdale State
(N.Y.) 2, Shenandoah (Va.) 2
