| Friday, March 25, 2005
SAINTS BASEBALL FALLS OUT OF TOP 25 Dahlonega, Ga. – After posting a 10-8 record in the month of February and a 13-8 mark in the Southern States Athletic Conference, the North Georgia College & State University baseball team dropped from the top 25 in the latest NAIA poll released this week. The Saints did receive four votes for the poll and have rebounded with a 13-2 record so far in March. North Georgia and took two out of three games from conference rival Auburn University Montgomery last weekend and are fourth in the conference standings. The first poll after the preseason was shaken up with 12 previously unranked teams ousting preseason picks. SSAC rival Lee University made the biggest jump after being unranked in the preseason to seventh place in this week's poll. Lyon, Benedictine and Bethany were all unranked previously and took the ninth, 10th, and 11th spots in the first rating. Southern Poly also broke into the poll for the first time all season at the 23rd spot. Cumberland University was one of two teams that kept their preseason ranking. CU remained number one in the nation with 13 first place votes. Lewis-Clark State moved one spot up to second place and Embry-Riddle jumped to third place and received 10 first place votes. The Saints take to the field again this evening as they travel to Franklin Springs, Ga. to take on Emmanuel College in the first of a three game series at 7:00 p.m. NAIA Baseball Ranking as of March 25, 2005
RANK |
PRE-SEASON |
SCHOOL (Region) |
1ST PLACE VOTES |
RECORD |
TOTAL POINTS |
1 |
1 |
Cumberland (Tenn.) (XI) |
13 |
26-6-0 |
607 |
2 |
3 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
2 |
15-4-0 |
566 |
3 |
4 |
Embry-Riddle (Fla.) |
10 |
30-2-0 |
550 |
4 |
5 |
Bellevue (Neb.) (IV) |
|
21-6-0 |
539 |
5 |
11 |
Houston Baptist (Texas) |
|
19-5-0 |
532 |
6 |
2 |
Oklahoma City (VI) |
|
30-5-0 |
489 |
7 |
NR |
Lee (Tenn.) (XIII) |
|
26-7-0 |
380 |
8 |
12 |
Tennessee Wesleyan (XII) |
|
13-5-0 |
368 |
9 |
NR |
Lyon (Ark.) (XI) |
|
29-6-0 |
359 |
10 |
NR |
Benedictine (Kan.) (V) |
|
18-6-0 |
329 |
11 |
NR |
Bethany (Kan.) (IV) |
|
25-3-0 |
315 |
12 |
14 |
Jamestown (N.D.) (III) |
|
10-2-1 |
300 |
13 |
13 |
William Penn (Iowa) (VII) |
|
15-5-0 |
285 |
14 |
NR |
Louisiana State-Shreveport |
|
23-5-0 |
277 |
15 |
NR |
Lubbock Christian (Texas) |
|
25-6-0 |
271 |
16 |
19 |
Biola (Calif.) (II) |
|
14-5-1 |
247 |
17 |
NR |
Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) |
|
29-6-0 |
219 |
18 |
NR |
Madonna (Mich.) (VIII) |
|
13-1-0 |
218 |
19 |
NR |
Flagler (Fla.) (XIV) |
|
20-13-0 |
176 |
20 |
6 |
Point Loma Nazarene |
|
19-5-0 |
152 |
21 |
17 |
Spalding (Ky.) (XII) |
|
22-11-0 |
143 |
22 |
NR |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
|
15-5-0 |
128 |
23 |
NR |
Southern Polytechnic |
|
28-8-0 |
117 |
24 |
NR |
McKendree (Ill.) (V) |
|
17-7-0 |
116 |
25 |
22 |
Oklahoma Baptist (VI) |
|
24-7-0 |
104 |
Others Receiving Votes: British Columbia (I), 53; Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) (VII), 45; St. Thomas (Fla.) (XIV), 41; Mobile (Ala.) (XIII), 40; Northwood (Fla.) (XIV), 23; Campbellsville (Ky.) (XI), 22; Albertson (Idaho) (I), 18; Ohio Dominican (IX), 13; Southern Nazarene (Okla.) (VI), 13; York (Neb) (IV), 13; Friends (Kan.) (IV), 10; Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) (IV), 9; Warner Southern (Fla.) (XIV), 9; Dickinson State (N.D.) (III), 7; Faulkner (Ala.) (XIII), 7 ; Culver-Stockton (Mo.) (V), 6; North Georgia (XIII), 4; Azusa Pacific (Calif.) (II), 2; Morningside (Iowa) (V), 1; Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) (IX), 1; William Jewell (Mo.) (IV), 1.
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