CONWAY, Ark. - For the second straight week, Hendrix Baseball obtains votes in the 2019 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 National Poll after a 10-3 start to the regular season including a 2-1 start to open up Southern Athletic Association play.
The Warriors obtain 11 votes in the latest national poll as it was released Tuesday morning. A week ago and before the two victories over Berry, Hendrix received four votes. The Warriors are the third-highest team out of the SAA in the national poll; just behind Birmingham-Southern and Berry.
Two of the three losses this season have come to Top 25 nationally-ranked teams (then-No. 3 Texas Lutheran, then-No.24 Berry). Freshman second basemen
Juan Pablo Leon currently leads the team in batting with a .432 mark (19-for-44) while flex player/pitcher
Andrei Stoyanow maintains a SAA third-best 1.29 ERA and with a 2-0 record on the mound in his first year of collegiate baseball.
Hendrix looks to get back to its winning ways Tuesday at 5 p.m. when the Warriors will host the University of the Ozark Eagles for the second time in less than three weeks. Hendrix won a 7-0 decision against the Eagles in Conway Feb. 20.
Dropped out: No. 19 La Roche, No. 21 UW-Oshkosh No. 23 Franklin, No. 24 Berry.
Others receiving votes: TCNJ 63, Franklin 55, La Roche 49, Baldwin Wallace 44, Methodist 41, North Central (Ill.) 37, Spalding 37, Adrian 25, Chicago 23, Ithaca 21, Birmingham Southern 21, Saint John's (Minn.) 20, Shenandoah 20, Washington and Jefferson 17, Berry 16, Union 12 , LaGrange 12, Hendrix 11, Montclair State 10, Wis.-Oshkosh 10, St. John Fisher 8, Arcadia 6, Aurora 5, Washington College 4, Wheaton (Mass.) 4, Centre 3, Pacific (Ore.) 3, New York Univ. 1.
