HDX ranked No. 25 by Collegiate Baseball

12/22/2020 9:00:00 AM

TUCSON, Ariz. - Hendrix enters the 2021 campaign ranked No. 25 by Collegiate Baseball, the publication announced Tuesday. The Warriors earned 219 points in the preseason poll.

Hendrix is among five Southern Athletic Association (SAA) programs in the Collegiate Baseball rankings. Birmingham-Southern (Ala.) was selected as the nation's No. 8 team, while Rhodes (Tenn.), Berry (Ga.) and Centre (Ky.) received votes.

The still-defending SAA Co-Champion returns 24 letterwinners and six of nine positional starters from a 2020 season that was cut short due to COVID-19. Hendrix returns its entire weekend starting rotation in Jack Hodgins, Andrei Stoyanow and Kyle Wellman.

In 2019, Sean McSheffery's first season at the helm, the Warriors earned the top seed in the SAA Tournament. Stoyanow was named the league's Newcomer of the Year, and McSheffery was voted Coach of the Year. Hodgins was a first team All-SAA performer.

Hendrix opens its season Feb. 27 with a doubleheader at Rhodes as part of a three-game series. The Warriors are scheduled to play only SAA opponents pending a vote by the league's Council of Presidents on Jan. 7 regarding non-conference games.

2021 Collegiate Baseball Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (2020 Final Record)	Points
1.	Cal. Lutheran (16-1)	287
2.	Chapman (12-3)	285
3.	Webster, MO (8-5)	283
4.	Kean, NJ (8-2)	280
5.	Southern Maine (0-1)	276
6.	Washington-St. Louis, MO (9-3)	274
7.	Heidelberg, OH (7-5)	270
8.	Birmingham-Southern, AL (10-6)	267
9.	Salisbury, MD (8-3)	266
10.	North Central (7-0)	263
11.	Adrian (4-5)	260
12.	Texas Lutheran (9-4)	257
13.	Marietta, OH (9-3)	253
14.	Johns Hopkins, MD (9-3)	250
15.	St. Thomas, MN (6-1)	247
16.	Denison (5-4)	245
17.	Wooster (4-4)	242
18.	Aurora, IL (9-2)	239
19.	Trinity, CT (3-0)	236
20.	Coe (3-3)	233
21.	Trinity, TX (11-2)	230
22.	Cortland St., NY (4-7)	227
23.	Wisconsin-Whitewater (2-1)	223
24.	Massachusetts-Boston (3-1)	222
25.	Hendrix, AR (7-11)	219
26.	Tufts, MA (0-0)	217
27.	Penn State-Harrisburg (7-5)	213
28.	Saint John's, MN (7-1)	209
29.	Farmingdale St., NY (3-2)	206
30.	Misericordia, PA (5-8)	204
31.	Babson, MA (2-1)	200
32.	Washington & Jefferson, PA (3-6)	197
33.	Christopher Newport, VA (10-4)	195
34.	Old Westbury (2-2)	192
35.	Shenandoah, VA (10-2)	189
36.	Rowan, NJ (6-0)	186
37.	New England, NH (5-5)	185
38.	Randolph-Macon, VA (15-1)	183
39.	Piedmont, GA (10-7)	180
40.	Baldwin Wallace (5-6)	177
Also Receiving Votes: Rhodes, College of New Jersey, Concordia-Chicago (IL), Ithaca (NY), Alvernia (PA), Keystone (PA), St. John Fisher (NY), Benedictine (IL), Franklin (IN), DeSales (PA), St. Olaf (MN), Haverford (PA), Hope (MI), Franklin & Marshall (PA), Worcester St. (MA), Keuka (NY), Westfield St. (MA), Texas-Dallas (TX), Methodist (NC), Lynchburg (VA), Rose-Hulman (IN), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY), Rutgers-Newark (NJ), Massachusetts-Dartmouth (MA), Linfield (OR), Catholic (Washington, DC), Wilson (PA), Berry (GA), Trine (IN), Spalding (KY), SUNY Cobleskill (NY), Marymount (VA), Lebanon Valley (PA), Union (NY), Otterbein (OH), Defiance (OH), Centre (KY), Oswego (NY), Eastern Nazarene (MA), Washington (MD), Whitworth (WA), George Fox (OR), La Verne (CA), Penn State-Altoona (PA), Husson (ME), Hardin-Simmons (TX), Hamilton (NY), Emory (GA).

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