RC Baseball Closes Year Ranked No. 3 in Nation

RC Baseball Closes Year Ranked No. 3 in Nation

Salem, Va. – Fresh off its first NCAA Division III Baseball World Series appearance, the Roanoke College Baseball Team has been ranked third in the nation in the final D3baseball.com Top-25 Poll.

The Maroons became the first team in program history to advance to the College World Series after claiming its first Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the NCAA South Regional titles.

Roanoke's 35 wins is tied for third most in ODAC history. The Maroons tie Randolph-Macon and Shenandoah's 35 wins from last season. Bridgewater's 36 in 2014 is second, while SU's  41 wins this season is an ODAC best.

The 10 man senior class closes its career with a total of 91 wins, setting the program's season-win record in 2016 and then again in 2017.

2017 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25, Final

Through end of the 2017 season:

#
School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Cal Lutheran (25) 40-11 625 15
2 Washington and Jefferson 42-13 599 16
3 Roanoke 35-19 504 --
4 Mass-Boston 38-12 502 19
5 North Central (Ill.) 31-18 490 --
6 Oswego State 32-11 471 7
7 Concordia-Chicago 34-13 456 --
8 Cortland 38-9 444 4
9 LaGrange 40-6 379 1
10 Birmingham-Southern 39-10 374 6
11 Shenandoah 41-10 370 10
12 Wheaton (Mass.) 27-17 364 --
13 Johns Hopkins 38-8 358 2
14 Salisbury 35-11 346 9
15 UW-Whitewater 36-9 251 3
16 Texas-Tyler 39-9 218 5
17 Wooster 36-10 210 8
18 Southern Maine 34-13 171 21
19 UW-La Crosse 31-19 136 --
20 Centenary (La.) 35-10 121 11
21 Concordia (Texas) 31-18
102 --
22 Babson 29-15 94 --
23 La Roche 34-10 79 12
24 Washington U. 27-10 69 14
25 St. Scholastica 34-10 64 23