last Total Rank week School (Region) Record Points ---- ---- --------------- ------ ------ 1 2 Embry-Riddle (Fla.) (XIV) 36-3-0 584 2 3 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) (I) 22-4-0 579 3 4 Houston Baptist (Texas) (VI) 26-5-0 549 4 8 Lyon (Ark.) (XI) 37-7-0 499 5 5 Bellevue (Neb.) (IV) 28-7-0 493 6 6 Oklahoma City (VI) 38-7-0 473 7 7 Lee (Tenn.) (XIII) 35-9-0 454 8 1 Cumberland U. (Tenn.) (XI) 33-9-0 447 9 9 Biola (Calif.) (II) 22-7-1 396 10 10 Benedictine (Kan.) (V) 24-8-0 333 11 12 William Penn (Iowa) (VII) 24-6-0 328 12 11 Lubbock Christian (Texas) (VI) 34-7-0 323 13 18 Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) (XI) 31-11-0 266 14 14 LSU-Shreveport (XIII) 26-10-0 263 15 15 Point Loma Nazarene (Ca.) (II) 23-8-0 231 16 19 Madonna (Mich.) (VIII) 20-4-0 223 17 20 Flagler (Fla.) (XIV) 24-13-0 218 18 22 North Georgia (XIII) 38-10-0 192 19 NR Ohio Dominican (IX) 24-9-0 167 20 NR Dakota State (S.D.) (III) 18-6-0 122 21 21 McKendree (Ill.) (V) 24-10-0 116 22 25 British Columbia (I) 20-10-1 90 23 NR St. Thomas (Fla.) (XIV) 25-13-0 77 24 NR Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) (IV) 22-11-0 55 25 NR Southern Polytechnic (Ga.) (XIII) 32-13-0 51
First-place votes: Embry-Riddle 17, Lewis-Clark State 6, Houston Baptist 1
Embry-Riddle lost an exhibition game with the Class A Daytona Cubs 5-3; more on this tomorrow.
Lewis-Clark State just had a 16-game winning streak broken by British Columbia after this poll was taken.
Houston Baptist and #14 LSU-Shreveport play each other April 19.
Lyon plays #8 Cumberland U. April 8-9, and #13 Trevecca Nazarene April 15-16.
Defending champion Cumberland U. took a big drop after losing a couple to Freed Hardeman.
Biola split a four game series with Division II Sonoma State.
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