Posted: Mar 19, 2013
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - In the first American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III poll of the 2013 regular season, Trinity University sits at second and Centenary College is 25th.
Trinity, which now stands at 19-4 overall (9-3 in the SCAC) and has won 13 of its last 15 games, is tied for first in the conference standings with Centenary College.
Centenary (15-5 overall), who took two of three games from Trinity two weekends ago, picked up wins in three of its four contests last week, including two of three from conference foe Austin College.
Trinity was 10th in the preseason ABCA poll while Centenary was unranked.
American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball
NCAA Division III Baseball Poll
March 19, 2013
next poll: March 26
Rank School Record Points Preseason Rank
1. Salisbury (Md.) (4) 13-2 398 11
2. Trinity (Texas) (5) 19-4 390 10
3. Cortland (N.Y.) State (3) 10-4 389 3
4. Linfield (Ore.) (2) 15-3 375 rv
5. Christopher Newport (Va.) 18-6-1 357 6
6. Marietta (Ohio) (1) 7-3 331 5
7. Texas-Tyler 17-5 309 rv
8. George Fox (Ore.) 15-5 248 nr
9. Kean (N.J.) 10-4 247 7
10. St. Thomas (Minn.) 5-3 241 2
11. Cal Lutheran 13-5-1 240 rv
12. Shenandoah (Va.) 11-3 238 27
13. St. Joseph's (Maine) 7-2 220 14
14. Heidelberg (Ohio) 10-3 187 nr
15. Wheaton (Mass.) 5-4 184 1
16. Western New England (Mass.) 5-2 175 22
17. Illinois Wesleyan 6-2 159 rv
18. Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) 15-5 152 rv
19. Eastern Connecticut State 7-1 151 24
20. Huntingdon (Ala.) 14-5 134 nr
21. Millsaps (Miss.) 12-5 133 nr
22. Haverford (Pa.) 10-0 131 nr
23. Webster (Mo.) 7-5 124 9
24. Keystone (Pa.) 11-5 121 12
25. Centenary (La.) 15-5 118 nr
26. St. Scholastica (Minn.) 8-3 113 30
27. Manchester (Ind.) 9-2-1 112 rv
28. Wis.-Whitewater 3-2 105 18
29. Birmingham-Southern (Ala.) 14-7 86 4
30. Texas Lutheran 17-6 80 nr
Also receiving votes: Johns Hopkins (Md.) 75, Rowan (N.J.) 67, Ramapo (N.J.) 58, La Verne (Calif). 56, Ithaca (N.Y.) 53, Spalding (Ky.) 52, Wartburg (Iowa) 52, Rensselaer (N.Y.) 50, Concordia-Chicago 44, Augustana (Ill.) 41, Wis.-La Crosse 40, Trinity (Conn.) 38, Montclair (N.J.) State 29, Washington & Jefferson (Pa.) 27, Bridgewater (Va.) 22, Misericordia (Pa.) 19, Washington University (Mo.) 11, Alvernia (Pa.) 10, Brockport (N.Y.) State 9, Wis.-Stevens Point 3, Amherst (Mass.) 1.