Marietta Tops D3baseball.com Rankings…
Marietta is the number one team in the D3baseball.com 2012 preseason poll. Marietta is followed by Chapman, Kean, Linfield and Cortland State in the top five. The rest of the poll follows:
Preseason 2012 NCWBA/D3baseball.com Top 25
# School (1st) Record Pts Prev.
1 Marietta (25) 47-4 625 1
2 Chapman 37-13 579 2
3 Kean 42-11 559 3
4 Linfield 33-11 496 9
5 Cortland State 36-10 481 13
6 UW-Whitewater 37-13 455 4
7 Chris. Newport 39-7 445 14
8 UW-Stevens Pt. 34-10 357 15
9 Salisbury 34-14 351 6
10 Heidelberg 36-13 348 11
11 Alvernia 38-9 321 16
12 Eastern Conn. 34-13 304 20
13 Buena Vista 34-18 284 7
14 St. Scholastica 37-7 276 12
15 W. New England 42-11 274 10
16 Keystone 38-12 215 5
17 Carthage 32-12 207 17
18 Wheaton (Mass.) 32-12 196 22
19 Thomas More 29-9 185 rv
20 Redlands 30-13 170 rv
21 Shenandoah 37-7 152 8
22 Trinity (Texas) 34-13 106 19
23 Texas-Tyler 33-8 105 18
24 Tufts 27-9-1 72 21
25 Birm.-Southern 30-9 56 –
Also receiving votes: Rowan 49, St. Thomas 45, Piedmont 44, Adrian 41, Johns Hopkins 39, Concordia-Austin 35, Coe 31, Illinois Wesleyan 24, Aurora 24, Cal Lutheran 21, Concordia (Ill.) 20, North Park 16, Hardin-Simmons 15, St. John Fisher 11, Washington U. 9, Southern Maine 8, New Jersey 8, La Roche 7, MIT 7, Randolph-Macon 5, Amherst 5, Anderson 5, Misericordia 4, Augustana 4, Neumann 4, Pomona-Pitzer 4, Bridgewater State 4, Webster 3, Rhodes 3, Louisiana College 2, Penn State-Altoona 2, Huntingdon 1, Wheaton (Ill.) 1, Endicott 1, Frostburg State 1, Case Western Reserve 1, Rhode Island College 1, Brockport State 1.