Women's Soccer ranked No. 20 and No. 21 in fifth weekly D3soccer.com and NSCAA poll
By: Zaji Lieberman
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ADA — The Ohio Northern women's soccer team is ranked No. 20 in the fifth weekly D3soccer.com poll and ranked No. 21 in the fifth weekly 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA Men's Division III poll, which were released on Tuesday.
In the D3soccer.com poll, Ohio Northern received 144 points and was ranked No. 21 in last week's poll.
Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Trinity (Tex.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.
In the NSCAA poll, the Polar Bears (6-0-3) were ranked No. 19 in the fourth weekly poll last week, No. 20 in the third and second polls, were ranked No. 18 in the first weekly poll, were ranked No. 12 in the 2012 preseason poll and were No. 13 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.
Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Trinity (Tex.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.
Last week, Northern defeated Mount Union 3-0.
ONU has now been nationally ranked in each of the last two seasons.
The Polar Bears will return to action Wednesday with a 4 pm match at Capital.
D3soccer.com Women's Poll - #5
Oct. 2, 2012
| Rank |
School (1st Pl. Votes) |
2012 Record |
Pts. |
Last Week |
| 1. | Emory (Ga.) (13) | 7-0-2 | 610 | 1 |
| 2. | Trinity (Tex.) (11) | 8-0-1 | 601 | 2 |
| 3. | Messiah (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | 568 | 3 |
| 4. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 6-0-1 | 534 | 4 |
| 5. | Ithaca (N.Y.) | 10-0-0 | 526 | 8 |
| 6. | Virginia Welseyan | 10-0-1 | 457 | 9 |
| 7. | Lynchburg (Va.) | 9-0-2 | 451 | 6 |
| 8. | Middlebury (Vt.) | 6-0-1 | 433 | 10 |
| 9. | Amherst (Mass.) | 6-0-1 | 416 | 11 |
| 10. | Centre (Ky.) | 9-0-0 | 387 | 12 |
| 11. | Wheaton (Ill.) | 9-2-0 | 355 | 5 |
| 12. | University of Washington | 9-1-0 | 354 | 13 |
| 13. | New Jersey | 9-1-0 | 274 | 16 |
| 14. | William Smith (N.Y.) | 7-2-1 | 264 | 7 |
| 15. | Wheaton (Mass.) | 9-0-2 | 257 | 17 |
| 16. | Aurora (Ill.) | 11-0-1 | 242 | - |
| 17. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 10-0-1 | 229 | 19 |
| 18. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 7-2-1 | 214 | 15 |
| 19. | Brandeis (Mass.) | 9-1-0 | 175 | 18 |
| 20. | Ohio Northern | 6-0-3 | 144 | 21 |
| 21. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 7-1-2 | 143 | 20 |
| 22. | Bowdoin (Maine) | 6-1-0 | 114 | 22 |
| 23. | Union (N.Y.) | 8-1-0 | 96 | 23 |
| 24. | Misericordia (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | 88 | 24 |
| 25. | Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 7-1-2 | 48 | 14 |
Others Receiving Votes: Kean (N.J) 26, Grove City (Pa.) 24, Thomas More (Ky.) 14, Mass-Boston 10, California Lutheran 9, Linfield (Ore.) 8, Alma (Mich.) 6, Augsburg (Minn.) 6, Augustana (Ill.) 6, New Paltz State (N.Y.) 5, Washington and Lee (Va.) 5, Calvin (Mich.) 3, Cortland State (N.Y.) 3, Gordon (Mass.) 3, Haverford (Pa.) 3, St. Vincent (Pa.) 3, Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) 2, Case Western Reserve 2, Rowan (N.J) 2, Hamilton (N.Y.) 1, Mary Washington (Va.) 1, RPI (N.Y.) 1, Richard Stockton (N.J.) 1, Stevens (N.J.) 1.
NSCAA Division III Women's Poll - #5
Oct. 2, 2012
| Rank | School | 2012 Record | Last Week |
| 1. | Emory (Ga.) | 7-0-2 | 1 |
| 2. | Trinity (Tex.) | 8-0-1 | 1 |
| 3. | Messiah (Pa.) | 8-1-1 | 3 |
| 4. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 6-0-1 | 4 |
| 5. | Amherst (Mass.) | 6-0-1 | 6 |
| 6. | Ithaca (N.Y.) | 10-0-0 | 7 |
| 7. | Middlebury (Vt.) | 6-0-1 | 8 |
| 8. | Washington (Mo.) | 9-1-0 | 11 |
| 9. | Virginia Wesleyan | 10-0-1 | 13 |
| 10. | Centre (Ky.) | 9-0-0 | 12 |
| 11. | Lynchburg (Va.) | 9-0-2 | 9 |
| 12. | Misericordia (Pa.) | 9-1-1 | 14 |
| 13. | Aurora (Ill.) | 11-0-1 | RV |
| 14. | Wheaton (Mass.) | 9-0-2 | 16 |
| 15. | Union (N.Y.) | 9-1-0 | RV |
| 16. | Wheaton (Ill.) | 9-2-0 | 5 |
| 17. | John Hopkins (Md.) | 7-2-1 | 17 |
| 18. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 7-1-2 | 22 |
| 19. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 10-0-1 | 18 |
| 20. | William Smith (N.Y.) | 7-2-1 | 10 |
| 21. | Ohio Northern | 6-0-3 | 19 |
| 22. | Brandeis (Mass) | 9-1-0 | 20 |
| 23. | New Jersey | 9-1-0 | 23 |
| 24. | Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 7-1-2 | 15 |
| 25. | Stevens (N.J.) | 7-2-0 | 21 |
Others Receiving Votes: Williams (Mass.), Springfield (Mass.), Alma (Mich.), Hamilton (N.Y.), Carnegie Mellon (Pa.), Gettysburg (Pa.), University of California Santa Cruz, Concordia-Moorhead (Minn.)