March 26, 2002

BALTIMORE - The Johns Hopkins baseball team moved up seven spots to 14th in the latest 2002 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's NCAA Division III poll. The Blue Jays, 12-4 overall, received 133 points and are the lone Centennial Conference school in the top-30. Hopkins was ranked 21st in the preseason poll after posting a 33-14 record in 2001.

The Blue Jays opened the season with six straight home games, winning four, before posting a 7-1 record in eight games in Ft. Myers, Florida. Hopkins then defeated Elizabethtown, 15-6, on Sunday, but suffered an 11-7 setback to St. Mary's College yesterday.

JHU hosts Western Maryland on Wednesday in the Centennial Conference opener for both teams at 3:00 p.m.

ABCA Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's NCAA Division III Poll 3/25/02

Rank School Record Points
1. Methodist (NC) (1) 21-2-1 223
2. Southwestern (Texas) (4) 25-2 220
3. St. Thomas (Minn.) (3) 4-2 215
4. Ohio Wesleyan 14-1 214
5. Montclair State (NJ) 8-4 196
6. Marietta (Ohio) 10-2-1 191
7. Aurora (Ill.) 10-1 188
8. Southern Maine 4-2 185
9t. Salisbury (Md.) 14-3-3 170
9t. Dallas (Texas) 23-1 170
11. Eastern Connecticut State 7-3-1 144
12. Rensselaer (NY) 7-4 141
13. Wooster (Ohio) 12-1 137
14. Johns Hopkins (Md.) 12-3 133
15. Chapman (Calif.) 17-6 130
16. Carthage (Wis.) 10-2 128
17. Wis.-Whitewater 3-1 119
18t. Cal Lutheran 20-4 86
18t. Averett (Va.) 18-6 86
20. Wis.-Oshkosh 4-0 75
21. Ithaca (NY) 7-4 69
22. Allegheny (Pa.) 8-3 68
23. Rutgers-Camden (NJ) 13-0 63
24. Mary Washington (Va.) 15-3-1 56
25. Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) 20-4 52
26. Wheaton (Mass.) 9-2 38
27. Wis.-Stevens Point 6-1 35
28. Cortland State (NY) 6-7 33
29. Texas Lutheran 23-2 31
30. Millsaps (Ala.) 17-4 22

Also Receiving Votes: Anderson (Ind.), Concordia (Texas), DeSales (Pa.), Hope (Mich.), Kean (NJ), Rose-Hulman (Ind.), Rowan (NJ), St. Olaf (Minn.), Wartburg (Iowa), Washington (Mo.), William Paterson (NJ).

-30-

© 2009 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | About Us | Advertise | Feedback | XML RSS Feeds