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The American Southwest Conference gained national
notice in the baseball and softball coaches associations' first
national NCAA Division III polls of the 2002 season.
Texas Lutheran baseball holds the No. 19 spot in
the American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball Top 30
poll with Concordia-Austin among teams receiving votes.
East Texas Baptist, in its first year of NCAA-III
softball eligibility, debuts at No. 19 in the USA Today/National
Fastpitch Coaches Association Top 25.
American Baseball Coaches
Association/Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III Poll
March 26, 2002
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School |
Record |
Points |
Preseason |
| 1 |
Methodist (N.C.) (1) |
21-2-1 |
223 |
NR |
| 2 |
Southwestern (Texas) (4) |
25-2 |
220 |
20 |
| 3 |
St. Thomas (Minn.) (3) |
4-2 |
215 |
2 |
| 4 |
Ohio Wesleyan |
14-1 |
214 |
15 |
| 5 |
Montclair State (N.J.) |
8-4 |
196 |
4 |
| 6 |
Marietta (Ohio) |
10-2-1 |
191 |
1 |
| 7 |
Aurora (Ill.) |
10-1 |
188 |
NR |
| 8 |
Southern Maine |
4-2 |
185 |
7 |
| 9 |
Salisbury (Md.) |
14-3-3 |
170 |
5 |
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Univ. Dallas |
23-1 |
170 |
NR |
| 11 |
Eastern Connecticut St. |
7-3-1 |
144 |
8 |
| 12 |
Rensselaer |
7-4 |
141 |
24 |
| 13 |
Wooster |
12-1 |
137 |
14 |
| 14 |
Johns Hopkins |
12-3 |
133 |
21 |
| 15 |
Chapman |
17-6 |
130 |
3 |
| 16 |
Carthage (Wis.) |
10-2 |
128 |
NR |
| 17 |
Wis.-Whitewater |
3-1 |
119 |
9 |
| 18 |
Cal Lutheran |
20-4 |
86 |
NR |
| 18 |
Averett (Va.) |
18-6 |
86 |
NR |
| 20 |
Wis.-Oshkosh |
4-0 |
75 |
NR |
| 21 |
Ithaca (N.Y.) |
7-4 |
69 |
NR |
| 22 |
Allegheny |
8-3 |
68 |
13 |
| 23 |
Rutgers-Camden |
13-0 |
63 |
NR |
| 24 |
Mary Washington (Va.) |
15-3-1 |
56 |
NR |
| 25 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
20-4 |
52 |
NR |
| 26 |
Wheaton (Mass.) |
9-2 |
38 |
NR |
| 27 |
Wis.-Stevens Point |
6-1 |
35 |
23 |
| 28 |
Cortland State (N.Y.) |
6-7 |
33 |
6 |
| 29 |
Texas Lutheran |
23-2 |
31 |
NR |
| 30 |
Millsaps College |
17-4 |
22 |
NR |
Also receiving votes (alphabetically): Anderson
(Ind.), Concordia (Texas), DeSales (Pa.), Hope (Mich.), Kean (N.J.),
Rose-Hulman (Ind.), Rowan (N.J.), St. Olaf (Minn.), Tufts (Mass.),
Wartburg (Iowa), Washington (Mo.), William Paterson (N.J.).
(ABCA-Div. III next poll: April 8)
USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches
Association Div. III Top 25
April 3, 2002 (records through March 31)
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School |
Record |
Pts. |
Preseason |
| 1 |
Muskingum (Ohio) (5) |
12-2 |
195 |
1 |
| 2 |
Central Iowa (3) |
19-1 |
191 |
3 |
| 3 |
Pacific Lutheran |
15-0 |
177 |
6 |
| 4 |
Emory Univ. |
25-2 |
169 |
23 |
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Wheaton (Mass.) |
11-2 |
169 |
4 |
| 6 |
Roanoke (Va.) |
21-3 |
145 |
10 |
| 7 |
La Verne (Calif.) |
24-2-1 |
140 |
15 |
| 8 |
St. Mary's (Minn.) |
7-3 |
136 |
2 |
| 9 |
Cortland State (N.Y.) |
9-4 |
131 |
20 |
| 10 |
North Central (Ill.) |
10-3-1 |
123 |
5 |
| 11 |
Augustana (Ill.) |
12-3 |
114 |
NR |
| 12 |
Ithaca (N.Y.) |
12-6 |
108 |
9 |
| 13 |
Alma (Mich.) |
11-6 |
100 |
7 |
| 14 |
Rowan (N.J.) |
12-6 |
96 |
18 |
| 15 |
Capital (Ohio) |
12-4 |
91 |
NR |
| 16 |
William Paterson (N.J.) |
9-5 |
87 |
8 |
| 17 |
Tufts (Mass.) |
9-5 |
71 |
22 |
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Wartburg (Iowa) |
13-3 |
71 |
12t |
| 19 |
East Texas Baptist |
22-5 |
55 |
NR |
| 20 |
Salisbury (Md.) |
17-6 |
44 |
11 |
| 21 |
Moravian (Pa.) |
16-3 |
38 |
NR |
| 22 |
St. John Fisher (N.Y.) |
9-1-1 |
34 |
NR |
| 23 |
Coe (Iowa) |
15-3 |
29 |
NR |
| 24 |
Albion (Mich.) |
14-4 |
25 |
NR |
| 25 |
Christopher Newport (Va.) |
15-6 |
15 |
NR |
(Next NFCA Div. III poll April 10)
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