MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Though the Trinity
University baseball team went 3-0 during the week, the Tigers fell
three spots from 10th to 13th in this week's D3baseball.com Top 25
poll.
The Tigers, who are now 29-7 overall and 13-5 in the SCAC, have
won 23 of their last 28 games and resume play today at Texas
Lutheran.
Linfield took over top spot in the poll with 602 points and was one of four teams to receive first place votes joining Johns Hopkins, Kean and St. Thomas (Minn.). Trinity totaled 280 points in the poll, just one point behind No. 12 Texas-Tyler.
Trinity finishes SCAC regular season play on April 20-21 when the Tigers travel to rival Southwestern University for the conclusion of their five game regular season series. Earlier this season, Trinity swept three games from the Pirates in San Antonio.
D3baseball.com Top 25, week 8
Through games of Sunday April 14, 2013
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Linfield (17) | 26-5 | 602 | 2 |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins (4) | 26-2 | 571 | 5 |
| 3 | Kean (2) | 24-6 | 565 | 1 |
| 4 | St. Thomas (2) | 16-4 | 526 | 4 |
| 5 | Salisbury | 23-6 | 521 | 3 |
| 6 | Marietta | 17-6 | 464 | 6 |
| 7 | Cortland State | 21-8 | 393 | 7 |
| 8 | UW-Whitewater | 18-4 | 389 | 11 |
| 9 | Manchester | 23-3-1 | 343 | 14 |
| 10 | Webster | 22-6 | 336 | 15 |
| 11 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 21-7 | 331 | 12 |
| 12 | Texas-Tyler | 29-8 | 281 | 16 |
| 13 | Trinity (Texas) | 29-7 | 280 | 10 |
| 14 | Ramapo | 18-5-1 | 278 | 9 |
| 15 | Keystone | 21-7 | 264 | 13 |
| 16 | Cal Lutheran | 25-6-1 | 256 | 18 |
| 17 | Christopher Newport | 28-11-1 | 238 | 8 |
| 18 | Southern Maine | 20-3 | 197 | 24 |
| 19 | George Fox | 24-9 | 168 | 17 |
| 20 | Ithaca | 22-4 | 159 | rv |
| 21 | Illinois Wesleyan | 21-5 | 135 | rv |
| 22 | Augustana | 19-5 | 131 | 19 |
| 23 | Millsaps | 26-8 | 80 | rv |
| 24 | UW-Oshkosh | 13-4 | 62 | 21 |
| 25 | Shenandoah | 22-9 | 55 | 25 |
Dropped out: No. 20
Birmingham-Southern, No. 22 Pomona-Pitzer, No 23 UW-Stevens
Point.
Others receiving votes: Texas Lutheran 54,
Wartburg 46, Concordia (Ill.) 36, Bridgewater (Va.) 32, Western New
England 31, UW-Stevens Point 31, Birmingham Southern 29, Baldwin
Wallace 23, St. Scholastica 23, Pomona-Pitzer 21, Saint Joseph's
(Me.) 13, Haverford 11, Huntingdon 5, La Roche 3, Washington &
Jefferson 3, Suffolk 2, UW-La Crosse, Wooster 1, Denison 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.
