MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - After a 4-1 week in
non-conference play, Trinity University fell one spot from second
to third in this week's D3baseball.com Top 25 poll.
The Tigers, who are now 23-5 overall and 9-3 in the SCAC, have won
17 of their last 20 games and resume play today hosting Concordia
(Texas).
Trinity received seven first place votes, second only to new No. 1 Linfield College (18-4) which received nine first place votes. The Tigers totaled 552 points in the poll, one point behind Cortland State for the No. 2 spot in the poll.
After hosting Concordia (Texas), Trinity resumes SCAC play on March 28-29 when first place Centenary comes to town for the final two games of their five game regular season series.
D3baseball.com Top 25, week 5
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Linfield (9) | 18-3 | 575 | 6 |
| 2 | Cortland State (5) | 13-4 | 553 | 3 |
| 3 | Trinity (Texas) (7) | 23-5 | 552 | 2 |
| 4 | Salisbury (2) | 15-4 | 526 | 1 |
| 5 | Marietta (1) | 9-4 | 485 | 4 |
| 6 | Kean (1) | 13-4 | 475 | 8 |
| 7 | St. Thomas | 9-4 | 435 | 5 |
| 8 | Christopher Newport | 20-7-1 | 414 | 7 |
| 9 | Ramapo | 10-1 | 405 | 13 |
| 10 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 8-4 | 371 | 10 |
| 11 | St. Joseph's (Maine) | 7-2 | 361 | 9 |
| 12 | Shenandoah | 14-4 | 279 | 11 |
| 13 | Keystone | 13-5 | 277 | 14 |
| 14 | Texas-Tyler | 20-6 | 272 | 15 |
| 15 | UW-Whitewater | 6-2 | 270 | 16 |
| 16 | Manchester | 13-2-1 | 178 | 22 |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins | 14-2 | 173 | rv |
| 18 | Webster | 9-5 | 171 | 19 |
| 19 | Augustana | 12-2 | 155 | 21 |
| 20 | Western New England | 6-4 | 154 | 12 |
| 21 | Haverford | 12-0 | 144 | rv |
| 22 | Birmingham-Southern | 17-8 | 132 | 17 |
| 23 | UW-Stevens Point | 5-2 | 95 | 20 |
| 24 | UW-Oshkosh | 11-1 | 79 | rv |
| 25 | Huntingdon | 16-6 | 55 | rv |
Dropped out: No. 18 UW-La Crosse, No. 23 Rowan, No. 24
Ill. Wesleyan, No. 25 Washington and Jefferson
Others receiving votes: UW.-La Crosse 50, Cal
Lutheran 47, St. Scholastica 45, Rowan 43, Pomona-Pitzer 37,
Concordia (Ill.) 36, Eastern Conn. St. 28, Spalding 24, Washington
(Mo.) 19, Bridgewater (Va.) 19, St. Joseph's (Brkln) 18, Suffolk
18, Wartburg 18, Wittenberg 18, Neumann 15, Ill. Wesleyan 15,
Baldwin Wallace 14, Adrian 11, Millsaps 9, Bridgewater St. 8, Texas
Lutheran 7, Case Western Reserve 6, MIT 5, Aurora 4, La Roche 4,
Mount Union 4, Otterbein 3, Elmhurst 3, Ithaca 3, Misericordia 3,
Tufts 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.
