MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - After a 1-2 week (0-2
SCAC) week of play, Trinity University fell six spot from third to
ninth in this week's D3baseball.com Top 25 poll.
The Tigers, who are now 24-7 overall and 9-5 in the SCAC, have won
18 of their last 23 games and resume play today hosting
Hardin-Simmons.
While Trinity fell six spots, the Tigers still received one first place votes. Cortland State received 14 first place votes and 601 points to overtake Linfield (Ore.) for the top spot in the poll. Trinity totaled 408 points in the poll and was one of six teams to receive first place votes.
After hosting Hardin-Simmons, Trinity resumes SCAC play on April 6-7 when the Tigers travel to Austin College for the conclusion of their five game regular season series. Earlier this season, Trinity took two of three from the Kangaroos in San Antonio.
D3baseball.com Top 25, week 6
Through games of Sunday March 31, 2013
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Cortland State (14) | 17-4 | 601 | 2 |
| 2 | Linfield (5) | 20-4 | 587 | 1 |
| 3 | Marietta (3) | 12-4 | 545 | 5 |
| 4 | Salisbury (1) | 17-5 | 522 | 4 |
| 5 | Ramapo (1) | 13-1 | 504 | 9 |
| 6 | Kean | 16-5 | 492 | 6 |
| 7 | St. Thomas | 12-4 | 471 | 7 |
| 8 | Christopher Newport | 24-8-1 | 420 | 8 |
| 9 | Trinity (Texas) (1) | 24-7 | 408 | 3 |
| 10 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 12-5 | 373 | 10 |
| 11 | Johns Hopkins | 16-2 | 333 | 17 |
| 12 | Keystone | 15-5 | 311 | 13 |
| 13 | Texas-Tyler | 23-7 | 300 | 14 |
| 14 | UW-Whitewater | 9-3 | 264 | 15 |
| 15 | Webster | 13-5 | 248 | 18 |
| 16 | Manchester | 15-3-1 | 211 | 16 |
| 17 | George Fox | 19-7 | 158 | rv |
| 18 | Shenandoah | 15-6 | 147 | 12 |
| 19 | UW-Oshkosh | 11-1 | 144 | 24 |
| 20 | Birmingham-Southern | 20-8 | 127 | 22 |
| 21 | St. Joseph's (Maine) | 10-5 | 125 | 11 |
| 22 | Cal Lutheran | 19-6-1 | 105 | rv |
| 23 | Augustana | 13-3 | 99 | 19 |
| 24 | Pomona-Pitzer | 19-7 | 98 | rv |
| 25 | Haverford | 14-2 | 81 | 21 |
Dropped out: No. 20 Western New England, No. 23
UW-Stevens Point, No. 25 Huntingdon
Others receiving votes: Western New Eng. 61,
UW-Stevens Point 60, Bridgewater (Va.) 39, Wittenberg 33, Ill.
Wesleyan 28, Ithaca 27, Eastern Conn. St. 24, Wartburg 22, St.
Scholastica 22, Texas Lutheran 19, Neumann 18, Southern Me. 17,
Millsaps 16, St. Joseph's (Brkln) 14, Spalding 12, Benedictine 9,
UW-La Crosse 8, La Roche 4, Baldwin Wallace 4, Suffolk 4,
Heidelberg 2, Aurora 2, Huntingdon 2, Otterbein 2, Rhodes 1, Rowan
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.
