(Photo courtesy of Joshua Moczygemba)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Trinity University had the week off
and moved up two spots from eighth to sixth in the eleventh
D3baseball.com Top 25 poll of the 2013 regular season.
The Tigers won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
championship for the the fifth time in the last eight years with a
perfect 3-0 record the weekend of April 25-28 and are now 36-7
overall. Trinity has now won 31 of its last 36 games.
Linfield remained No. 1 with 618 points and was one of five teams to receive first place votes joining St. Thomas (Minn.), Wisconsin-Whitewater, Cortland State and Manchester (Ind.). Trinity totaled 456 points in the poll, 19 points ahead of No. 7 Cal Lutheran.
Trinity will await its its NCAA regional draw when the 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship field is announced on May 13.
D3baseball.com Top 25, week 11
Through games of Sunday May 5, 2013
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Linfield (19) | 34-6 | 618 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Thomas (2) | 27-5 | 587 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Whitewater (2) | 30-5 | 567 | 4 |
| 4 | Cortland State (1) | 34-9 | 515 | 3 |
| 5 | Salisbury | 30-7 | 503 | 7 |
| 6 | Trinity (Texas) | 36-7 | 456 | 8 |
| 7 | Cal Lutheran | 34-7-1 | 437 | 11 |
| 8 | Marietta | 28-10 | 387 | 9 |
| 9 | Kean | 32-10 | 373 | 5 |
| 10 | Ithaca | 32-6 | 365 | 15 |
| 11 | Keystone | 33-7 | 362 | 12 |
| 12 | Manchester (1) | 32-5-1 | 354 | 13 |
| 13 | Webster | 29-8 | 338 | 10 |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins | 36-8 | 320 | 6 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 30-10 | 316 | 14 |
| 16 | Southern Maine | 33-7 | 243 | 16 |
| 17 | Texas-Tyler | 35-10 | 225 | 17 |
| 18 | Augustana | 29-8 | 182 | 21 |
| 19 | UW-Stevens Point | 30-8 | 163 | 23 |
| 20 | Concordia (Ill.) | 31-5 | 147 | 22 |
| 21 | Wartburg | 31-9 | 126 | 18 |
| 22 | Bridgewater (Va.) | 33-11 | 99 | 19 |
| 23 | Rowan | 32-12 | 79 | rv |
| 24 | Millsaps | 32-11 | 74 | 25 |
| 25 | Illinois Wesleyan | 29-9 | 52 | 20 |
Dropped out: No. 24 Christopher Newport
Others receiving votes: Christopher Newport 41,
Huntingdon 38, Western New Eng. 25, Misericordia 24, George Fox 19,
Saint Joseph's (Me.) 13, Shenandoah 12, Birmingham Southern 10,
Wooster 9, St. Scholastica 7, Texas Lutheran 7, Case Western
Reserve 6, Ramapo 5, Wis.-Oshkosh 4, Endicott 4, Pomona-Pitzer 2,
Coe 2, Eastern Conn. St. 1, Daniel Webster 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.