FMU ranked 14th in final NCAA II baseball poll
The Francis Marion University baseball team is ranked 14th in the final 2009 Collegiate Baseball Magazine Division II Top 30 poll.
The Patriots finished the year with a 38-15-1 record, the second-highest win total in the program’s history. Francis Marion finished second during the Peach Belt Conference regular season, won the program’s first-ever Peach Belt Tournament title, and earned its fourth NCAA Division II national tournament bid in the past seven years, placing third at the Southeast Regional.
The squad posted a 5-5 mark against nationally ranked opponents in 2009, and closed the season by winning 17 of its final 19 contests.
Dating back to the 2005 season, the Patriots have now appeared in 78 of the past 84 national polls. FMU has landed in the national Top 30 poll at the end of each of the past five seasons.
Four PBC squads are listed in the final poll, which is topped by
Division II national champion Lynn University.
2009 Collegiate Baseball Magazine NCAA Division II Poll -
June 1, 2009 (FINAL)
Rank
Team
Record Points Last Week
1.
Lynn
46-16 480
5
2. Emporia
State
49-15
464 3
3. UC San
Diego
41-15
444 1
4. Southern
Arkansas
52-11
408 7
5. Mesa
State
44-15
406 6
Belmont
Abbey
40-26
406 10
7. West
Chester
46-12
372 2
8. Florida
Southern
41-16 356 8
9. Grand Valley
State 45-16-1
354 4
10. Central
Missouri
44-15
330 9
USC
Aiken
42-19
330 12
12.
Dowling
35-18
296 T21
13. Sonoma
State
35-16
294 11
14. Francis
Marion
38-15-1 286 14
15.
Barry
44-11
280 13
16. Abilene
Christian
45-19
242 15
17. West
Alabama
38-16
216 16
18. Western
Oregon
34-14
202 T17
Angelo
State
46-20
202 T17
20. Valdosta
State
43-21
172 20
21.
Indianapolis
43-21
162 19
22. Delta
State
38-16
148 23
23.
Ashland
42-15-1 120 T21
24.
Catawba
36-18
114 24
25. Armstrong Atlantic St.
38-18
98 25
26.
Tampa
39-17
84 27
27. Wayne State (Neb.)
45-15
50 26
28. Nebraska -
Omaha
41-20
46 28
29. UT Permian
Basin
39-19
16 T19
30.
Mercyhurst
38-17
12 T29
UNC
Pembroke
37-17
12 T29
Cameron
43-16
12 T29
Also Receiving Votes: Northern Kentucky 6, Georgia College &
State 4, Adelphi 4, Slippery Rock 2, Cal State Dominguez Hills 2,
Franklin Pierce 2, Tusculum 1, Dominican 1, New Mexico Highlands 1,
Southern Indiana 1, Cal State Los Angeles 1, Cal State Chico 1,
Rockhurst 1, North Georgia 1, Mount Olive 1, Erskine 1, Barton 1,
Incarnate Word 1, St. Mary's (Texas) 1, Missouri Southern State 1,
Alabama-Huntsville 1, West Florida 1, Nova Southeastern 1, Kutztown
1, Shepherd 1, West Virginia State 1, California (Pa.) 1, Colorado
State - Pueblo 1, Minnesota State Mankato 1, Southwest Minnesota
State 1, Bellarmine 1.
