The University of Southern Maine and St. Joseph's baseball teams met on the diamond last week for the one-and-only time this spring. Now, the two team are battling for top spot in the regional polls.

USM won that game last week 10-4.

In the New England D III poll, the Huskies have jumped the Monks in this week's poll but in the D3baseball.com national poll St. Joes continues ahead of USM.

NEIBA New England Division III
1. Tufts (18-3-1)
2. Salve Regina (20-4)
3. Southern Maine (17-7)
4. St. Joseph's (20-4)
5. Westfield State (19-4)
6. UMass Boston (16-8)
7. Mitchell (18-9)
8. WPI (20-8)

D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 Week 8

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Shenandoah (12)	27-3	597	1
2	LaGrange (10)	35-4	591	4
3	UW-Whitewater (3)	20-3	570	3
4	Birmingham-Southern	29-6	567	2
5	Cortland	28-5	526	6
6	Texas-Tyler	28-5	509	5
7	Wooster	19-5	436	8
8	Tufts	18-3-1	417	7
9	Johns Hopkins	24-6	415	10
10	Centenary (La.)	29-6	386	9
11	Randolph-Macon	23-8	306	13
12	Alvernia	23-5-2	302	11
13	TCNJ	20-6	292	19
14	Oswego State	19-7	284	14
15	Texas-Dallas	25-8	269	15
16	Salisbury	26-8	263	18
17	La Roche	21-6	220	22
18	St. John Fisher	18-6	168	25
19	Washington and Jefferson	18-5	128	17
20	Washington U.	18-8	125	16
21	Salve Regina	20-4	119	rv
22	Cal Lutheran	22-9	104	12
23	Mount Union	22-5	79	rv
24	St. Joseph's (Maine)	20-4	78	21
25	Emory	24-11	59	rv

Others receiving votes: Bethel (Minn.) 45, DePauw 42, Otterbein 38, Augustana (Ill.) 34, Denison 29, Pacific Lutheran 23, St. Scholastica 18, Southern Maine 18, Keystone 12, Webster 10, Adrian 8, Thomas More 8, Rowan 7, Misericordia 6, Concordia-Chicago 4, Occidental 4, Wheaton (Mass.) 4, Willamette 3, Arcadia 1, Marietta 1

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USM, St Joes Climb To Top-5 In Region

D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 Week 8