USM Climbs To #5, Loses Two In Florida
The University of Southern Maine baseball climbed to #5 in the nation in the weekly D3 baseball poll and then lost two games Monday afternoon down in Florida.
Coach Ed Flaherty's Huskies are on their week long southern swing. After winning their first four games, USM lost to RIT 7-5 in 15 innings. Then Salve Regina beat the Huskies 9-4.
The Huskies have four more games in Florida.
Check out the D3baseball.com national poll...
Through games of Sunday March 20, 2016
# | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
1 | Trinity (Texas) (11) | 20-4 | 599 | 2 |
2 | Cortland (8) | 14-3 | 587 | 1 |
3 | Birmingham-Southern | 18-4 | 537 | 3 |
4 | Ramapo (2) | 12-0 | 515 | 12 |
5 | Southern Maine (3) | 4-0 | 509 | 7 |
6 | Randolph-Macon | 15-3 | 478 | 6 |
7 | Emory | 17-6 | 460 | 4 |
8 | UW-Whitewater | 2-0 | 443 | 9 |
9 | Shenandoah (1) | 13-4 | 411 | 8 |
10 | Whitworth | 17-4 | 377 | 14 |
11 | Salisbury | 10-5 | 308 | 10 |
12 | Centenary (La.) | 17-3 | 296 | 24 |
13 | UW-La Crosse | 6-4 | 276 | 5 |
14 | Christopher Newport | 14-5 | 256 | 15 |
15 | Rutgers-Camden | 8-2 | 229 | 25 |
16 | Frostburg State | 9-6 | 200 | 11 |
17 | Texas-Tyler | 15-7 | 140 | 18 |
18 | Mary Washington | 15-7 | 120 | 17 |
19 | Oswego State | 8-3 | 118 | 16 |
20 | St. Thomas | 3-1 | 114 | 23 |
21 | Western New England | 8-0 | 103 | rv |
22 | Wooster | 4-2 | 89 | 19 |
23 | Buena Vista | 5-1 | 82 | rv |
24 | UW-Stevens Point | 1-3 | 78 | 13 |
25 | Concordia-Chicago | 10-5 | 71 | 20 |
Dropped out: No. 21 Piedmont. No. 22 Washington (Mo.).
Others receiving votes: Amherst 68, Keystone 56, Piedmont 53, Washington (Mo.) 44, Rhodes 42, Wheaton (Mass.) 34, Redlands 34, Mt. St. Joseph 33, McDaniel 28, Maryville (Tenn.) 26, Marietta 25, TCNJ 24, La Roche 24, North Central (Ill.) 23, Eastern Conn. St. 18, Mitchell 12, Benedictine 11, Ferrum 11, Berry 10, Kean 9, Ohio Northern 9, Otterbein 9, Misericordia 9, Occidental 8, Saint Mary's (Minn.) 8, Haverford 7, Methodist 7, Webster 7, Brockport St. 5, Fredonia 4, La Verne 4, New Jersey City 3, Penn St.-Berks 3, Roanoke 3, Denison 2, Johns Hopkins 2, Penn St.-Behrend 2, Wesleyan (Conn.) 2, Bowdoin 1, Moravian 1, Pacific 1.