Baseball Majors Take Top Spot in D3baseball.com Poll

Baseball Majors Take Top Spot in D3baseball.com Poll

(Taken from the Millsaps College website)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - For the first time in the program's 101-year history, the Millsaps College baseball team is ranked No. 1 in all of Division III by D3baseball.com, overtaking previously top-ranked Eastern Connecticut State with a 4-0 week.

"One way or another we're going to enjoy this, " 21st-year head coach Jim Page said.  "I know the season's not over yet and it's just a ranking, but I'm real proud of our guys and know there's a lot of work still to be done.  Whatever happens, 20 years from now we'll be able to look back and say hey, remember when?"

Off to their best start in school history at 30-4 overall with four regular season games to play, the Majors jumped two spots from No. 3 to No. 1 by earning 597 total points and 10 first-place votes.  They leapfrogged Salisbury (Md.) in the No. 2 spot who grabbed 588 points and 10 first-place votes.

Millsaps has made a steady climb up the polls all season long, going from unranked in the preseason to No. 16 in Week 1, No. 12 in Week 3, No. 6 in Week 4, No. 3 in Week 7 and now, No. 1 on April 14.

The baseball Majors also become the highest ranked team in the school's athletic history, as last year's football team peaked at No. 3 by D3football.com and the 2007-08 men's basketball team was No. 6 in the final D3hoops.com poll of the season.

"To be able to have kids that are good students first and then good scholar-athletes, it's a compliment to show that we're doing things the right way here at Millsaps," Page said.  "I'm really proud to be at a school where academics and athletics are both important."

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