MINNEAPOLIS – The D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top 25 poll was released Tuesday and Salisbury University dropped to No. 4 after the Sea Gulls spent the past two weeks at No. 2. The Sea Gulls (34-6) collected 518 total points.
University of Southern Maine (31-4) remains the top-ranked team for the second consecutive week. The Huskies received six first-place votes and 592 total points. Pomona-Pitzer College (33-4) moved from No. 3 to No. 2 as the Sagehens collected 10 first-place votes and 576 points. The College of St. Scholastic (29-2) moved up from No. 4 to No. 3 as it received eight first-place votes and 567 points. Trinity (Conn.) College (22-4), the defending national champions, rounds out the top five as they garnered 507 points and sit at No. 5. Eastern Connecticut State University (28-6) received one-first place vote and 483 points as the Warriors are ranked seventh.
This is the second poll the Gulls are ranked No. 4 in as they are ranked fourth by the American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball poll.
SU will continue non-conference play this week as the Sea Gulls hit the road for some key in-state contests. Salisbury will take on Johns Hopkins University (22-13) this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Tomorrow SU will travel to Chestertown, Md., to face Washington (Md.) College (16-17) at 3 p.m.
Rk School (first) Last Rec. Pts
1 Southern Maine (6) 1 31-4 592
2 Pomona-Pitzer (10) 3 33-4 576
3 St. Scholastica (8) 4 29-2 567
4 Salisbury 2 34-6 518
5 Trinity (Conn.) 6 24-4 507
6 Kean 9 32-7 503
7 Eastern Connecticut (1) 8 27-6 483
8 Heidelberg 10 29-7 426
9 Wooster 11 30-7 423
10 Keystone 14 34-4 396
11 Millsaps 5 32-8 371
12 Texas-Tyler 7 34-9 353
13 Carthage 17 23-5 347
14 Curry 16 30-5 241
15 Wheaton (Mass.) 12 28-9 221
16 George Fox 19 32-9 212
17 Cal Lutheran 13 28-9 207
18 Shenandoah 21 33-8 203
19 St. Thomas 15 23-8 185
20 Pacific Lutheran 23 31-8 151
21 Ithaca 22 24-7 115
22 RPI – 27-8 81
23 Penn State-Behrend – 27-7 46
24 Christopher Newport – 24-10-1 43
25 Linfield 20 28-12 42
Dropped Out: No. 18 Buena Vista, No. 25 UW-Whitewater, No. 24 Wilkes,
No.
Also receiving votes: UW-Whitewater 37, Buena Vista 36, Marietta 34,
Adrian 29, Texas Lutheran 23, Cortland State 15, UW-Oshkosh 15, John
Carroll 13, Washington and Jefferson 12, Franklin 12, Webster 10, North
Carolina Wesleyan 8, Montclair State 8, Augustana 7, Chapman 6, Beloit
6,
Rochester 5, Oneonta State 5, Methodist 4, Mount St. Mary 4, Suffolk 4,
Birmingham-Southern 4, Hendrix 3, UW-Stevens Point 3, Wilkes 3, Illinois
Wesleyan 2, Washington and Lee 2, Fredonia State 2, Aurora 1,
Rose-Hulman
1, Thomas More 1, Johns Hopkins 1
