CHANDLER, Ariz. - The Salisbury University
field hockey team moved down one spot to No. 10 in the latest
STX/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III coaches'
poll released Tuesday.
Salisbury (10-3, 4-0 Capital Athletic Conference) earned a total
of 353 points as the maroon and gold lost a tough 2-1 overtime
game to former No. 2 The College of New Jersey (11-1).
The Lions are the new No. 1 team in the country as Bowdoin
College (11-1), the defending national champions, lost to No.
9 Trinity College 2-0 last week. TCNJ earned 11
first-place votes and 581 points while five other teams garnered
first-place votes.
Bowdoin still received five first-place votes and tallied 561
points as the Polar Bears are ranked No. 2 this week. Ursinus
College (11-2) received the second highest amount of first-place
votes (eight) as the Bears are ranked No. 3 with 543 points. The
rest of the top five is No. 4 Messiah College (10-1) and No. 5
Tufts University (11-0). Messiah had one first-place vote and Tufts
garnered five. The other school to receive a first-place vote is
Trinity (10-1). SU is ranked above No. 11 Rowan University (9-3).
Salisbury is on the road Tuesday as the Sea Gulls face Stevenson
University in a Capital Athletic Conference game at 4 p.m.
2008 STX/NFHCA Division III National Coaches
Polls
