April 4, 2007

OLATHE, Kan. - Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) held on to all 20 of its previously gained first-place votes to hang on to the No. 1 position in this week's NAIA Baseball Top 25, holding off Azusa Pacific (Calif.), who checked in at No. 2 with three first-place votes and 549 points.

The poll's top five remained unchanged, as Oklahoma City remained No. 3, followed by Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) and Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.). St. Thomas (Fla.) moved up one to No. 6, trading spots with No. 7 Lee (Tenn.) who fell one spot this week. Texas Wesleyan and Tennessee Wesleyan remained in place at No. 8 and No. 9, while Spring Arbor (Mich.) made a five-spot leap into the Top 10 at No. 10.

Four fresh faces joined the Top 25 this week, including No. 20 Cumberland (Tenn.), No. 22 Bethany (Kan.), No. 23 Southern Poly (Ga.) and No. 24 William Jewell (Mo.). Belhaven (Miss.) made the largest jump in the rating, moving from No. 25 last week to its current spot at No. 19.

RANK	LAST WEEK	SCHOOL	1ST PLACE VOTES	RECORD	POINTS
1	1	Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) (I)	20	26-2	572
2	2	Azusa Pacific (Calif.) (II)	3	34-4	549
3	3	Oklahoma City (VI)		32-7	527
4	4	Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) (XIII)		33-8	506
5	5	Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) (XI)		32-8	478
6	7	St. Thomas (Fla.) (XIV)		29-8	428
7	6	Lee (Tenn.) (XIII)		29-9	409
8	8	Texas Wesleyan (VI)		23-4	404
9	9	Tennessee Wesleyan (XII)		27-10	356
10	15	Spring Arbor (Mich.) (VIII)		22-1	345
11	12	Bellevue (Neb.) (IV)		19-10	302
12	11	Dakota State (S.D.) (III)		25-4	293
13	16	Union (Ky.) (XII)		31-5	270
14	14	Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.) (II)		23-11	248
15	18	Lubbock Christian (Texas) (VI)		24-8	246
16	12	Avila (Mo.) (V)		21-8	239
17	21	Ohio Dominican (IX)		20-4	207
18	19	Warner Southern (Fla.) (XIV)		21-15	168
19	25	Belhaven (Miss.) (XIII)		29-10	167
20	NR	Cumberland (Tenn.) (XI)		22-13	153
21	23	Embry-Riddle (Fla.) (XIV)		31-6	127
22	NR	Bethany (Kan.) (IV)		22-8	70
23	NR	Southern Polytechnic (Ga.) (XIII)		30-10	63
24	NR	William Jewell (Mo.) (V)		24-10	49
25	23	Albertson (Idaho) (I)		18-10	47

 

Others Receiving Votes: Concordia (Calif.) (II), 43; Houston Baptist (Texas) (VI), 43; Indiana Tech (VIII), 41; Campbellsville (Ky.) (XI), 35; Louisiana State-Shreveport (XIII), 31; St. Ambrose (Iowa) (VII), 16; Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) (IX), 14; California Baptist (II), 8; Missouri Baptist (V), 6; St. Xavier (Ill.) (VII), 4; Southern Wesleyan (S.C.) (XIII), 3; York (Neb) (IV), 3; Aquinas (Mich.) (VIII), 2; Urbana (Ohio) (IX), 2; Mount Marty (S.D.) (III), 1.