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BASEBALL INCLUDED IN NATIONAL, REGIONAL RANKINGS
3-11-09
CALDWELL, N.J. - The Caldwell College baseball team is ranked 25th
in the latest PING! Baseball Division II College Baseball Rankings.
This is the third time this season the Cougars have been included in
the PING! national rankings. Additionally, the Cougars are fourth in
the season's first East Region Poll, conducted by the National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
Caldwell was 28th in the PING! preseason poll on Jan. 16, then moved
to 24th in the poll released on Feb. 23. The Cougars are the only
team in the national and regional rankings that has yet to play a
game in the 2009 season. The season is set to get underway on
Thursday, Mar. 12 at Pace University, who is ranked sixth in the
NCBWA East Region Poll. The Cougars then head to Florida, where they
will face No. 12 Franklin Pierce University, the region's top ranked
team, on Saturday, Mar. 14. Other regionally-ranked opponents
Caldwell will face in Florida include eighth-ranked Southern
Connecticut State (Mar. 14) and second-ranked UMass-Lowell (Mar.
16). The University of New Haven (Mar. 17) and Merrimack College
(Mar. 18) received votes in the poll.
The Cougars, coached by Jay Messina, start the 2009 season at
Pace University on Thursday, Mar. 12, beginning at 3:00 p.m.
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here to view the latest PING! Division II College Baseball Rankings
NCBWA 2009 East Region Poll (Mar. 9)
| Rank | School | Pts. | Record |
| 1. | Franklin Pierce (5) | 50 | 4-1 |
| 2. | UMass-Lowell | 43 | 2-1 |
| 3. | Molloy | 34 | 6-1 |
| 4. | Caldwell | 23 | 0-0 |
| Stonehill | 23 | 3-2 | |
| 6. | Pace | 21 | 2-4 |
| Dowling | 17 | 3-2 | |
| 8. | S. Connecticut St. | 16 | 1-3 |
| 9. | Wilmington | 16 | 6-6 |
| 10. | Adelphi | 8 | 1-2 |
| Felician | 8 | 5-3 |
Receiving votes: Assumption (7), St. Thomas Aquinas (4), C.W.
Post (3), Merrimack (2), New Haven (1)