April 14, 2009

SU remains No. 2 in D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll

MINNEAPOLIS - The D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top 25 poll was released Tuesday and Salisbury University remains ranked at No. 2 for the second consecutive week. This is the fourth time this season that the Sea Gulls (29-4, 15-3 Capital Athletic Conference) have been ranked second by the media poll. SU received 10 first-place votes and 588 total points.

Millsaps College (30-4) jumped from No. 3 to No. 1 in this week's poll as the Major collected 10 first-place votes and 597 votes. Wheaton (Mass.) College (24-3) moved from No. 4 to No. 3 as the Lyons received four first-place votes and 563 points. University of Texas-Tyler (31-6) advanced one position to No. 4 as the Patriot collected 521 points. University of Southern Maine (20-3) rounds out the top five as the Huskies received 501 total points. The College of St. Scholastica (21-2) received the final first-place vote as the Saints brought home 495 points.

CAC member York (Pa.) College was the only other conference school to be recognized as the Spartans (23-7, 13-5 CAC) received 18 points.

SU is currently ranked No. 6 in the American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III poll. The new coaches' poll will be released on April 21.

Salisbury is the No. 1 seed headed into this week's CAC tournament. The Sea Gulls are looking for their fourth straight CAC championship, ninth overall.

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