Baseball ranked No. 25 nationally by D3baseball.com
By Tim Glon
| D3baseball.com poll | ABCA poll |
ADA – The Ohio Northern baseball team is ranked No. 25 nationally in the seventh weekly D3baseball.com poll, released Tuesday.
The Polar Bears (17-4 overall) also received votes in the fifth American Baseball Coaches Association Division III poll.
Northern received 60 votes in the D3baseball.com poll, which was 16 less than last week when ONU was ranked No. 23.
ONU received 11 votes in the ABCA poll, which is 15 less than last week and is the 38th most in the poll.
In the D3baseball.com poll, Salisbury (Md.) is No. 1, Cortland State (N.Y.) is No. 2 and Wisconsin-Whitewater is No. 3 for the second consecutive week.
Whitewater is No. 1 in the ABCA poll, followed by Cortland State at No. 2 and Salisbury at No. 3.
The Polar Bears are scheduled to return to action Wednesday with a 1 pm Ohio Athletic Conference double header against Otterbein at Wander Field.
D3baseball.com Division III Poll - #7
Apr. 7, 2015
| Rank | School | Rec. | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Salisbury (Md.) (17) |
18-0 | 616 | 1 |
| 2. | Cortland State (N.Y.) (3) |
18-1 | 589 | 2 |
| 3. | Wisconsin-Whitewater (4) |
14-1 | 588 | 3 |
| 4. | Heidelberg |
16-2 | 484 | 6 |
| 5. | Kean (N.J.) | 19-6 | 479 | 5 |
| 6. | Birmingham-Southern (Va.) |
24-5-1 | 478 | 4 |
| 7. | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 12-4 | 455 | 7 |
| 8. | Frostburg State (Md.) | 21-3 | 414 | 12 |
| 9. | Shenandoah (Va.) | 16-4-1 | 401 | 9 |
| 10. | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 13-5 | 382 | 8 |
| 11. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 21-4 | 337 | 14 |
| 12. | Millsaps (Miss.) | 22-5 | 332 | 21 |
| 13. | Misericordia (Pa.) | 14-2 | 320 | 13 |
| 14. | Rhodes (Tenn.) | 23-8 | 273 | 11 |
| 15. | Randolph-Macon (Va.) | 17-6 | 223 | 10 |
| 16. | Baldwin Wallace | 13-4 | 197 | 16 |
| 17. | Wooster | 18-3 | 183 | 25 |
| 18. | Buena Vista (Iowa | 16-5 | 178 | 17 |
| 19. | Concordia (Tex.) | 21-6 | 177 | 18 |
| 20. | Augustana (Ill.) | 19-5 | 152 | 24 |
| 21. | Southern Maine | 11-6 | 110 | 15 |
| 22. | Trinity (Tex.) | 19-9 | 98 | 19 |
| 23. | Methodist (N.C.) |
24-7 | 85 | RV |
| 24. | Linfield (Ore.) |
21-9 | 67 | RV |
| 25. |
Ohio Northern | 16-4 | 60 | 23 |
Others Receiving Votes: Cal Lutheran 60, Emory 48, Tufts 43, Thomas More 43, Adrian 29, Oswego State 25, Pacific Lutheran 21, Wesleyan (Conn.) 19, Otterbein 17, Rowan 17, Ohio Wesleyan 13, Carthage 12, Mary Washington 11, John Carroll 11, Bridgewater (Va.) 10, Texas-Tyler 10, Webster 8, Neumann 7, Texas Lutheran 4, Washington (Mo.) 3, Clarkson 3, Augsburg 2, Marietta 1, UW-La Crosse 1.
ABCA Division III Poll - #5
April 7, 2015
| Rank | School | Rec. | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Wisconsin-Whitewater (10) | 14-1 | 470 | 1 |
| 2. | Cortland State (N.Y.) (4) |
18-1 | 466 | 2 |
| 3. | Salisbury (Md.) (2) | 18-0 | 453 | 3 |
| 4. | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 13-5 | 387 | 6 |
| 5. | Heidelberg | 16-2 | 385 | 7 |
| 6. | Frostburg State (Md.) | 21-3 | 383 | 8 |
| 7. | Birmingham-Southern (Va.) | 24-5-1 | 376 | 4 |
| 8. | Kean (N.J.) | 19-6 | 368 | 5 |
| 9. | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 12-4 | 342 | 9 |
| 10. | Millsaps (Miss.) | 22-5 | 341 | 16 |
| 11. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 21-4 | 326 | 10 |
| 12. | Randolph-Macon (Va.) | 17-4 | 241 | 12 |
| 13. | Shenandoah (Va.) | 16-4-1 | 240 | 19 |
| 14. | Concordia (Tex.) | 21-6 | 231 | 15 |
| 15. | Trinity (Tex.) | 19-9 | 225 | 13 |
| 16. | Rhodes (Tenn.) | 23-8 | 215 | 11 |
| 17. | Wooster | 18-3 | 208 | 24 |
| 18. | Linfield (Ore.) | 21-9 | 204 | 20 |
| 19. | Cal Lutheran | 20-9 | 199 | 17 |
| 20. | Baldwin Wallace | 13-4 | 180 | 21 |
| 21. | Buena Vista (Iowa) | 16-5 | 175 | 14 |
| 22. | Misericordia (Pa.) | 14-2 | 164 | 22 |
| 23. | Pacific Lutheran (Wash.) | 20-8 | 108 | 23 |
| 24. | Methodist (N.C.) | 24-7 | 107 | 29 |
| 25. |
Wesleyan (Conn.) | 11-4 | 94 | 27 |
| 26. | Southern Maine | 11-6 | 90 | 18 |
| 27. | Augustana (Ill.) | 19-5 | 77 | 28 |
| 28. | Thomas More (Ky.) | 17-3 | 67 | RV |
| 29. | Texas Lutheran | 21-8 | 33 | NR |
| 30. | William Patterson (N.J.) |
13-5 | 24 | RV |
Others Receiving Votes: Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) 21, Mary Washington (Va.) 20, Tufts (Mass.) 19, Oswego (N.Y.) State 17, John Carroll 16, Ohio Wesleyan 13, MIT (12), Ohio Northern 11, Carthage (Wis.) 9, Rowan (N.J.) 7, Illinois Wesleyan 6, Washington University (Mo.) 6, Webster (Mo.) 5, Texas-Tyler 4, La Verne (Calif.) 3, Westfield (Mass.) State 3, Adrian (Mich.) 2, Clarkson (N.Y.) 2, Emory (Ga.) 2, Salem (Mass.) State 1.