Men's Soccer Ranked No. 9, No. 21 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. 9 in the sixth weekly D3soccer.com poll Men's Division III poll and is No. 21 in the sixth 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 365 points and was ranked No. 10 in last week's poll.
Trinity (Tex.) is ranked No. 1, Messiah (Pa.) is second and St. Lawrence (N.Y.) is third.
In the NSCAA poll, the Polar Bears (12-2-0) were ranked No. 25 in the fifth poll last week, No. 18 in forth poll, 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 Capital 4-0 and Baldwin Wallace 1-0.
The Polar Bears will return to action Wednesday with a 4 pm match against Otterbein at the ONU Soccer Field.
D3soccer.com Men's Poll - #6
Oct. 9, 2012
| Rank | School (1st Pl. Votes) | 2012 Record | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1. | Trinity (Tex.) (20) | 12-0-1 | 619 | 1 |
| 2. | Messiah (Pa.) (5) | 11-0-1 | 603 | 2 |
| 3. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) | 11-1-0 | 543 | 4 |
| 4. | Amherst (Mass.) (4) |
8-0-1 | 525 | 3 |
| 5. | Loras (Iowa) |
12-1-1 | 519 | 6 |
| 6. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | 457 | 5 |
| 7. | Brandeis (Mass.) | 11-0-1 | 451 | 8 |
| 8. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 12-1-0 | 448 | 9 |
| 9. | Ohio Northern | 12-2-0 | 365 | 10 |
| 10. | York (Pa.) |
10-2-1 | 358 | 12 |
| 11. | Whitworth (Calif.) | 9-0-2 | 332 | 11 |
| 12. | Williams (Mass.) | 7-0-2 | 304 | 16 |
| 13. | Olivet (Mich.) | 12-0-1 | 291 | 17 |
| 14. | New York University | 9-1-1 | 284 | 7 |
| 15. | Swarthmore (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | 221 | 18 |
| 16. | Rutgers-Camden (N.J.) | 10-2-1 | 214 | 14 |
| 17. | Hiram | 11-0-1 | 204 | 20 |
| 18. | Dominican (Ill.) | 9-1-1 | 189 | 19 |
| 19. | Wisconsin-Platteville |
11-1-1 | 173 | 22 |
| 20. | Susquehanna (Pa.) | 9-2-0 | 171 | 13 |
| 21. | Plattsburgh State (N.Y.) | 13-1-0 | 157 | 21 |
| 22. | Stevens (N.J.) | 10-2-0 | 118 | - |
| 23. | Ohio Wesleyan | 7-2-3 | 79 | 15 |
| 24. | Babson (Mass.) |
10-2-1 | 78 | 25 |
| 25. | Eastern Connecticut | 10-0-1 | 66 | 24 |
Others Receiving Votes: Scranton (Pa.) 63, DePauw (Ind.) 52, Carleton 51, Penn State-Behrend 29, Frostburg State (N.Y.) 26, Illinois Wesleyan 20, Christopher Newport (Va.) 19, Allegheny (Pa.) 16, Franklin and Marshall 13, Wheaton (Ill.) 12, Medaille (N.Y.) 10, Dickinson (Pa.) 9, Sage (N.Y.) 9, Mississippi College 7, Puget Sound (Wash.) 5, Rochester (N.Y.) 5, Chicago (Ill.) 3, Colorado College 2, Wesleyan (Conn.) 2, Bowdoin (Maine) 1, North Carolina Wesleyan 1, Transylvania (Ky.) 1.
NSCAA Division III Men's Poll - #6
Oct. 9, 2012
| Rank | School | 2012 Record | Last Week |
| 1. | Trinity (Tex.) | 11-0-1 | 1 |
| 2. | Amherst (Mass.) | 8-0-1 | 2 |
| 3. | Messiah (Pa.) | 11-0-1 | 3 |
| 4. | Loras (Iowa) | 12-1-1 | 5 |
| 5. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) |
8-1-1 | 4 |
| 6. | Olivet (Mich.) | 10-0-1 | 7 |
| 7. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) |
11-1-0 | 10 |
| 8. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 12-1-0 | 8 |
| 9. | Brandeis (Mass.) | 11-0-1 | 9 |
| 10. | Whitworth (Calif.) | 9-0-2 | 11 |
| 11. | Dominican (Ill.) | 10-0-0 | 12 |
| 12. | Hiram | 11-0-1 | 21 |
| 13. | Wisconsin-Platteville |
11-1-1 | 19 |
| 14. | York (Pa.) | 10-2-1 | 14 |
| 15. | Stevens (N.J.) |
10-2-0 | 22 |
| 16. | Swarthmore (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | NR |
| 17. | Williams (Mass.) | 7-0-2 | 17 |
| 18. | Carleton (Wis.) |
10-1-1 | 16 |
| 19. | Rutgers-Camden (N.J.) | 10-2-1 | 18 |
| 20. | New York University | 9-1-1 | 6 |
| 21. | Ohio Northern | 12-2-0 | 25 |
| 22. | University of Scranton (Pa.) | 9-0-1 | NR |
| 23. | Wesleyan (Ill.) | 10-1-0 | NR |
| 24. | Colorado College | 10-3-0 | 25 |
| 25. | Eastern Connecticut State | 10-0-1 | 24 |