USM Ranked #7 In The Nation
The University of Southern Maine baseball teams enters the 2015 season as the #7 ranked Division III in the country, according to the D3baseball.com preseason poll.
Coach Ed Flaherty and his Huskies are coming off back to back appearances in the College World Series, racking up 83 wins over the past two seasons.
Game scheduled for this weekend in New England have already been cancelled so USM will now open its season March 11th in Florida.
2015 D3baseball.com Top 25, preseason
Records from 2014, Previous rankings from final 2014 D3baseball.com Top 25
# | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
1 | UW-Whitewater (22) | 44-7 | 620 | 1 |
2 | St. Thomas (3) | 39-9 | 564 | 3 |
3 | Emory | 38-13 | 556 | 2 |
4 | Linfield | 37-9 | 527 | 6 |
5 | Cortland State | 36-10 | 501 | 5 |
6 | Salisbury | 37-9 | 446 | 7 |
7 | Southern Maine | 37-15 | 391 | 4 |
8 | Webster | 37-7 | 375 | 9 |
9 | Concordia-Chicago | 39-7 | 350 | 10 |
10 | Cal Lutheran | 36-10 | 345 | 14 |
11 | Kean | 35-14 | 343 | 12 |
12 | UW-Stevens Point | 32-13 | 329 | 11 |
13 | Marietta | 30-16 | 279 | 25 |
14 | Rowan | 33-12 | 271 | 15 |
15 | Case Western Reserve | 34-12 | 269 | 13 |
16 | Trinity (Texas) | 33-10 | 235 | 17 |
17 | Shenandoah | 33-11 | 226 | 16 |
18 | Birmingham-Southern | 35-12 | 209 | 20 |
19 | Eastern Connecticut | 32-9 | 189 | 18 |
20 | Baldwin Wallace | 30-20 | 188 | 8 |
21 | Bridgewater (Va.) | 36-14 | 96 | 19 |
22 | Tufts | 34-9 | 80 | 24 |
23 | Adrian | 33-15 | 72 | 22 |
24 | Buena Vista | 37-9 | 69 | 21 |
25 | Misericordia | 31-15-1 | 59 | - |