Baseball moves up to No. 16 in D3baseball.com poll; Now ranked No. 29 by ABCA

Baseball moves up to No. 16 in D3baseball.com poll; Now ranked No. 29 by ABCA
May 5, 2015

By Tim Glon

| D3baseball.com poll | ABCA poll |

ADA – The Ohio Northern baseball team moved up four spots to No. 16 nationally in the 11th weekly D3baseball.com poll, released Tuesday.

The Polar Bears (30-9 overall) are also ranked No. 29 nationally in the ninth weekly American Baseball Coaches Association Division III poll.

Northern received 202 votes in the D3baseball.com poll, which was 54 more than last week when ONU was ranked No. 20.

The Polar Bears were ranked No. 22 in the ninth poll, were No. 23 in the eighth poll, were No. 25 in the seventh poll and were No. 23 in the sixth poll.

ONU received 24 votes in the ABCA poll, which was good for 29th. It marks the first time this season that ONU has cracked into the top-30 of the ABCA poll.

Cortland State (N.Y.) is No. 1, Frostburg State (Md.) is No. 2 and Wisconsin-Whitewater is No. 3 in both polls for the second consecutive week.

The Polar Bears finished their regular season and are waiting until Sunday night to see if they will receive a bid to participate in the NCAA III Tournament.

D3baseball.com Division III Poll - #11

May 5, 2015

Rank School Rec. Pts. Prev.
1. Cortland State (N.Y.) (24) 36-3 624 1
2. Frostburg State (Md.)
 35-5 577 2
3. Wisconsin-Whitewater (1)
 30-7 572 3
4. Salisbury (Md.) 27-4 521 5
5. Kean (N.J.) 32-10 457 9
6. Birmingham-Southern (Va.)  34-10-1 443 4
7. Baldwin Wallace 31-8 433 12
8. Rhodes (Tenn.) 32-11 418 13
9. Heidelberg 29-10 414 6
10. Shenandoah (Va.) 27-8-1 408 8
11. Wooster 33-7 392 7
12. Methodist (N.C.) 32-8 338 12
13. Wisconsin-Stevens Point 27-11 311 15
14. Wartburg (Iowa) 30-10 256 11
15.  Concordia (Tex.) 29-10 221 14
16. Ohio Northern 30-9 202 20
17. Wisconsin-LaCrosse 28-10 180 22
18. Trinity (Tex.) 33-12 157 18
19. Linfield (Ore.) 30-13 155 16
20. Cal Lutheran 32-12 138 19
21.  Pacific Lutheran (Wash.)
 30-12 134 21
22. Webster (Mo.) 29-11 105 24
23. Misericordia (Pa.) 26-10 92 17
24. Texas-Tyler 30-10 88 25
25.
 Wesleyan (Conn.)
 25-8 80 RV

Others Receiving Votes: Adrian 47, Bethel (Minn.) 44, Southern Maine 40, Tufts 36, Millsaps 36, Whitworth 33, Randolph-Macon 32, Emory 30, Mary Washington 27, Thomas More 16, Oswego State 15, La Roche  10, Johns Hopkins 10, Clarkson 6, John Carroll 4, Stevens 2.

ABCA Division III Poll - #9

May 5, 2015

Rank School Rec. Pts. Prv.
1. Cortland State (N.Y.) (16) 36-3 480 1
2. Frostburg State (Md.)
 35-5 460 2
3. Wisconsin-Whitewater
 30-7 429 3
4. Salisbury (Md.)
 27-4 412 4
5. Baldwin Wallace 31-8 399 8
6. Kean (N.J.) 32-10 391 10
7. Wooster 33-7 378 6
8. Rhodes (Tenn.) 32-11 343 14
9. Shenandoah (Va.) 27-8-1 330 9
10. Methodist (N.C.) 32-8 326 12
11. Birmingham-Southern (Va.)
 34-10-1  321 5
12. Wartburg (Iowa) 30-10 304 11
13. Heidelberg 29-10 303 7
14. Wisconsin-Stevens Point 27-11 291 15
15.  Concordia (Tex.) 29-10 250 13
16. Trinity (Tex.) 33-12 221 19
17. Linfield (Ore.) 30-13 209 16
18. Wisconsin-LaCrosse 28-10 207 20
19. Cal Lutheran 32-12 201 17
20. Pacific Lutheran (Wash.) 30-12 196 18
21.  Wesleyan (Conn.) 25-8 160 21
22. Webster (Mo.) 29-11 159 22
23. Texas-Tyler 30-10 87 24
24. Mary Washington (Va.) 27-7 84 25
25.
 Randolph-Macon (Va.) 26-10 80 23
26. Southern Maine 27-12 74 27
27. Millsaps (Miss.) 28-12 60 26
28. Bethel (Minn.) 29-6 49 29
29. Ohio Northern 30-9 24 RV
30. Misericordia (Pa.) 26-10 22 28

Others Receiving Votes: Oswego (N.Y.) State 19, Alvernia (Pa.) 18, Tufts (Mass.) 17, Whitworth (Wash.) 16, LaRoche (Pa.) 13, Johns Hopkins (Md.) 12, Emory (Ga.) 9, MIT 8, Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) 7, Mitchell (Conn.) 6, Clarkson (N.Y.) 5, Adrian (Mich.) 4, Anderson (Ind.) 3, Rowan (N.J.) 3, Concordia-Moorhead (Minn.) 2, Keystone (Pa.) 1.