DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.
The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
| NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL (MAY 9) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Johns Hopkins [22] | Baltimore, Md. | 39-4 | 619 | 1 |
| 2. | Shenandoah [2] | Winchester, Va. | 36-5 | 591 | 3 |
| 3. | Salisbury [1] | Salisbury. Md. | 29-5 | 585 | 2 |
| 4. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 35-5 | 532 | 5 |
| 5. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 34-6 | 509 | 4 |
| 6. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 35-3 | 499 | 6 |
| 7. | Birmingham-Southern | Birmiugham, Ala. | 37-9 | 451 | 9 |
| 8. | Wheaton | Norton, Mass. | 35-6 | 426 | 8 |
| 9. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 31-8 | 421 | 7 |
| 10. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 31-8 | 410 | 10 |
| 11. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 31-8 | 379 | 11 |
| 12. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 31-9 | 350 | 12 |
| 13. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 29-9 | 285 | 21 |
| 14. | Eastern Connecticut | Willimantic, Conn. | 30-10 | 264 | 13 |
| 15. | UW-La Crosse | La Crosse, Wis. | 28-9 | 245 | 16 |
| 16. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland. Va. | 31-11 | 240 | 14 |
| 17. | Augustana | Augustana, Ill. | 34-6 | 215 | 20 |
| 18. | Salve Regina | Newport, R.I. | 33-6-1 | 176 | 25 |
| 19. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 28-9 | 146 | 17 |
| 20. | North Carolina Wesleyan | Rocky Mount, N.C. | 33-8 | 126 | RV |
| 21. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 26-9 | 105 | 22 |
| 22. | East Texas Baptist | Marshall, Texas | 35-11 | 82 | RV |
| 23. | Buena Vista | Storm Lake, Iowa | 29-7 | 75 | 24 |
| 24. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 30-13 | 64 | 19 |
| 25. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 29-9 | 53 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Misericordia 52, Rhode Island College 33, UW-Whitewater 31, UW-Oshkosh 20, Arcadia 19, Cal Lutheran 12, Elizabethtown 12, Penn St.-Harrisburg 12, Trinity (Texas) 8, La Verne 7, Lewis & Clark 6, Methodist 6, Webster 6, LaGrange 4, Mitchell 4, Tufts 3, Wittenberg 3, Gustavus Adolphus 3, MSOE 1.. | |||||
| Dropped out: UW-Oshkosh (15), Misericordia (18), LaGrange (23).. | |||||
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