The St. Joseph's College Monks are the #3 ranked Division III team in New England and they showed why Monday afternoon thumping Husson 16-2.

The Monks pounded out 20 hits against eight different Eagles pitchers.

Husson managed just five hits, Sam Huston had two of them

St. Joes improves to 17-2. The Monks started the week as the #3 ranked team in New England and #21 in the national poll.

The Eagles are now 11-10.

New England Division III Weekly Poll
1. Tufts (15-2)
2. Salve Regina (17-4)
3. St. Joseph's (16-2)
4. Southern Maine (13-7)
5. UMass Boston (12-7)
6. Wesleyan (13-5)
7. Mitchell (17-6)
8t. Wheaton (13-8)
8t. Castleton (10-3)

2017 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25

Through games of Sunday April 9, 2017

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Shenandoah (15)	24-2	606	1
2	Birmingham-Southern (4)	27-5	593	3
3	UW-Whitewater (4)	16-2	571	4
4	LaGrange (2)	31-4	560	2
5	Texas-Tyler	28-5	509	5
6	Cortland	22-5	504	6
7	Tufts	15-2	449	8
8	Wooster	16-4	431	7
9	Centenary (La.)	26-6	351	10
10	Johns Hopkins	19-6	344	13
11	Alvernia	20-4-1	319	11
12	Cal Lutheran	21-6	306	19
13	Randolph-Macon	20-7	297	16
14	Oswego State	14-6	280	9
15	Texas-Dallas	22-7	257	12
16	Washington U.	16-5	241	18
17	Washington and Jefferson	15-3	185	21
18	Salisbury	23-7	178	22
19	TCNJ	14-6	175	17
20	Denison	18-3	124	rv
21	St. Joseph's (Maine)	16-2	111	rv
22	La Roche	19-6	105	rv
23	Otterbein	18-6	101	20
24	Augustana	18-6	96	14
25	St. John Fisher	15-6	70	rv

Dropped out: No. 15 UW-La Crosse, No. 23 Christopher Newport, No. 24 Emory, and No. 25 Bethel.

Others receiving votes: Salve Regina 58, Emory 55, Bethel (Minn.) 31, UW-La Crosse 28, Adrian 27, Mount Union 27, Catholic 25, Occidental 20, Linfield 12, Webster 12, Pacific Lutheran 10, Concordia-Chicago 9, Kean 8, St. Scholastica 8, Keystone 7, Rowan 7, Washington and Lee 7, Widener 6, DePauw 3, Marietta 1, Willamette 1.