Men's Soccer ranked No. 10, No. 25 in fifth weekly D3soccer.com and NSCAA polls
By: Zaji Lieberman
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ADA — The Ohio Northern men's soccer team is ranked No. 10 in the fifth weekly D3soccer.com poll Men's Division III poll and is No. 25 in the fifth weekly 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA on Tuesday.
ONU has now been nationally ranked in four of the past five seasons.
In the D3soccer.com poll, Ohio Northern received 324 points and were ranked No. 13 in last week's poll.
Trinity (Tex.) is ranked No. 1, Messiah (Pa.) is second and Amherst (Mass.) is third.
In the NSCAA poll, the Polar Bears (10-2-0) were ranked No.18 in forth poll last week, No. 9 in the third poll, No. 12 in the second poll, No. 4 in the first weekly poll and were ranked No. 12 in the 2012 preseason poll and were No. 11 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.
Trinity (Tex.) is ranked No. 1, Amherst (Mass.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.
Last week, the Bears defeated Mount Union 3-0.
The Polar Bears will return to action Tuesday with a 4 pm match at Capital.
D3soccer.com Men's Poll - #5
Oct. 2, 2012
| Rank | School (1st Pl. Votes) | 2012 Record | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1. | Trinity (Tex.) (18) | 10-0-1 | 613 | 1 |
| 2. | Messiah (Pa.) (2) | 9-0-1 | 597 | 2 |
| 3. | Amherst (Mass.) (4) | 7-0-0 | 553 | 3 |
| 4. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) | 9-1-0 | 514 | 4 |
| 5. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 8-1-0 | 499 | 6 |
| 6. | Loras (Iowa) | 11-1-1 | 489 | 7 |
| 7. | New York University (1) | 9-0-0 | 466 | 8 |
| 8. | Brandeis (Mass.) | 9-0-1 | 442 | 5 |
| 9. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 10-1-0 | 438 | 9 |
| 10. | Ohio Northern | 10-2-0 | 324 | 13 |
| 11. | Whitworth (Calif.) | 8-0-2 | 308 | 12 |
| 12. | York (Pa.) | 8-2-1 | 306 | 11 |
| 13. | Susquehanna (Pa.) | 9-1-0 | 290 | 14 |
| 14. | Rutgers-Camden (N.J.) | 8-2-0 | 269 | 10 |
| 15. | Ohio Wesleyan | 6-1-3 | 199 | 15 |
| 16. | Williams (Mass.) | 6-0-1 | 188 | 18 |
| 17. | Olivet (Mich.) | 10-0-1 | 164 | 24 |
| 18. | Swarthmore (Pa.) | 7-1-1 | 164 | 19 |
| 19. | Dominican (Ill.) | 7-1-1 | 146 | 21 |
| 20. | Hiram | 9-0-1 | 146 | - |
| 21. | Plattsburgh State (N.Y.) | 11-1-0 | 143 | 17 |
| 22. | Wisconsin-Platteville | 10-1-1 | 120 | 25 |
| 23. | Salisbury (Md.) | 2-2-1 | 119 | 16 |
| 24. | Eastern Connecticut | 9-0-0 | 75 | - |
| 25. | Babson (Mass.) | 8-2-1 | 66 | - |
Others Receiving Votes: Carleton 64, Stevens (N.J.) 62, Frostburg State (N.Y.) 45, Medaille (Pa.) 41, Christopher Newport (Virg.) 40, DePauw (Ind.) 30, Dickinson (Pa.) 30, Franklin and Marshall 19, Allegheny (Pa.) 17, Illinois Wesleyan 17, Scranton (Pa.) 17, Wheaton (Ill.) 17, Oberlin 14, Lasell (Mass.) 10, Carthage (Wisc.) 8, Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) 8, Mississippi College 7, North Carolina Wesleyan 7, Bowdoin (Maine) 6, Chicago 5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5, Albertus Magnus (Conn.) 4, Puget Sound (Wash.) 4, Transylvania (Ky.) 3, Calvin (Minn.) 2, Centre (Ky.) 2, Colorado College 1, Penn State-Behrend 1
NSCAA Division III Men's Poll - #5
Oct. 2, 2012
| Rank | School | 2012 Record | Last Week |
| 1. | Trinity (Tex.) | 1-0-1 | 1 |
| 2. | Amherst (Mass.) | 7-0-0 | 2 |
| 3. | Messiah (Pa.) | 9-0-1 | 3 |
| 4. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 8-1-0 | 4 |
| 5. | Loras (Iowa) | 11-1-1 | 5 |
| 6. | New York University | 9-0-0 | 6 |
| 7. | Olivet (Mich.) | 10-0-1 | 8 |
| 8. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 10-1-0 | 17 |
| 9. | Brandeis (Mass.) | 9-0-1 | 10 |
| 10. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) | 9-1-0 | 9 |
| 11. | Whitworth (Calif.) | 8-0-2 | 11 |
| 12. | Dominican (Ill.) | 7-1-1 | 13 |
| 13. | Ohio Wesleyan | 6-1-3 | 14 |
| 14. | York (Pa.) | 8-2-1 | 14 |
| 15. | Susquehanna (Pa.) | 9-1-0 | 16 |
| 16. | Carleton (Wis.) | 9-1-0 | 22 |
| 17. | Williams (Mass.) | 6-0-1 | 19 |
| 18. | Rutgers-Camden (N.J.) | 8-2-0 | 6 |
| 19. | Wisconsin-Platteville | 10-1-1 | 25 |
| 20 | Dickinson (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | 20 |
| 21. | Hiram | 9-0-1 | RV |
| 22. | Stevens (N.J.) | 8-2-0 | RV |
| 23. | Carthage | 8-2-0 | NR |
| 24. | Eastern Connecticut | 9-0-0 | NR |
| 25. | Ohio Northern | 10-2-0 | 18 |
| Colorado College | 7-3-0 | NR |
Others Receiving Votes: Swarthmore (Pa.), Salisbury (Md.), Puget Sound (Wash.), University of Rochester (N.Y.)