CONWAY, Ark. - After recording a sensational, record-breaking season a year ago, Hendrix baseball is receiving national votes in the 2020 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25 as it was released Tuesday afternoon. Hendrix earns eight national votes which is equivalent to being ranked No. 42.
Hendrix finished the 2020 season with a 30-14 mark and just missed a chance at an at-large bid into the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The Warriors finished Southern Athletic Association play with a 15-6 mark and won its first-ever SAA Regular Season Championship after finishing as co-champions with Birmingham-Southern.
Hendrix opens the 2020 season Feb. 7 down in Grand Prairie, Texas against No. 22 Texas Lutheran in the 2020 Rusty Greer and Jackie Moore Collegiate Classic. First pitch is set for 7 p.m.
The first Top 25 of the regular season will be posted February 25, 2020. The entire preseason poll can be seen below.
Others recieving votes: St. John Fisher 83, Trinity (Conn.) 79, Wheaton (Mass.) 73, LaGrange 59, Cal Lutheran 51, Misericordia 40, Aurora 38, TCNJ 28, Methodist 25, Shenandoah 20, Ramapo 18, La Roche 18, Tufts 16, MIT 12 , Case Western Reserve 11 , Spalding 9, Hendrix 8, Marietta 6, UW-La Crosse 6 , Rhodes 5, Randolph-Macon 5, Baldwin Wallace 5, Southwestern (Tex.) 5, Benedictine (Ill.) 4, Franklin & Marshall 4, Buena Vista 3, Farmingdale State 3, Hood 2, Saint John's (Minn.) 2, North Park 1, Piedmont 1, St. Olaf 1, Swarthmore 1.
The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.