(Photo courtesy of Joshua Moczygemba)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Trinity University had the week off
and held steady at sixth in the twelfth 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 613 points and was one of four teams to receive first place votes joining St. Thomas (Minn.), Trinity and Manchester (Ind.). Trinity totaled 463 points in the poll, one point ahead of No. 7 Ithaca.
Trinity opens up the 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship West Regional with a game on May 15 against California Lutheran.
D3baseball.com Top 25, Week 12
Through end of the regular season (May 12):
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Linfield (16) | 34-6 | 613 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Thomas (7) | 33-5 | 606 | 2 |
| 3 | Cortland State | 34-9 | 521 | 4 |
| 4 | Salisbury | 30-7 | 502 | 5 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater | 34-7 | 488 | 3 |
| 6 | Trinity (Texas) (1) | 36-7 | 463 | 6 |
| 7 | Ithaca | 34-6 | 462 | 10 |
| 8 | Cal Lutheran | 34-7-1 | 455 | 7 |
| 9 | Manchester (1) | 35-5-1 | 406 | 12 |
| 10 | Kean | 34-10 | 379 | 9 |
| 11 | Keystone | 33-8 | 326 | 11 |
| 12 | Webster | 32-9 | 317 | 13 |
| 13 | Marietta | 29-12 | 308 | 8 |
| 14 | Southern Maine | 37-7 | 293 | 16 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 30-10 | 288 | 15 |
| 16 | UW-Stevens Point | 35-9 | 274 | 19 |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins | 36-8 | 237 | 14 |
| 18 | Texas-Tyler | 35-10 | 235 | 17 |
| 19 | Concordia (Ill.) | 36-5 | 181 | 20 |
| 20 | Augustana | 32-9 | 161 | 18 |
| 21 | Wartburg | 34-9 | 117 | 21 |
| 22 | Rowan | 32-12 | 94 | 23 |
| 23 | Millsaps | 34-11 | 79 | 24 |
| 24 | Bridgewater (Va.) | 33-11 | 73 | 22 |
| 25 | Illinois Wesleyan | 32-12 | 42 | 25 |
Dropped out: None.
Others receiving votes: Misericordia 34; Huntingdon 31; Christopher Newport 30; Western New England 24; Wooster 19; Case Western Reserve 13; George Fox 11; Birmingham-Southern 10; Texas Lutheran 7; Shenandoah 7; St. Scholastica 6; St. Joseph's (Maine) 4; Ramapo 3; Penn State-Behrend 2; Endicott 2; Pomona-Pitzer 1; La Roche 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.
