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BASEBALL TABBED SECOND IN CACC PRESEASON POLL
February 13, 2013

BASEBALL TABBED SECOND IN CACC PRESEASON POLL

New Haven, Conn. (2/13/13) – The Dominican College baseball team has been tabbed to finish in second place in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) as voted upon by the 11 CACC head baseball coaches. Wilmington University was the is the unanimous choice to finish atop the CACC.

New Haven, Conn. (2/13/13) – The Dominican College baseball team has been tabbed to finish in second place in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) as voted upon by the 11 CACC head baseball coaches.  Wilmington University was the is the unanimous choice to finish atop the CACC.

The 2012 CACC Champions were tabbed as the team to beat this season, earning 11 first-place votes to stand alone atop the preseason poll. After handing Felician a 1-0 defeat in the eighth and final game of the CACC Championship, the Wildcats earned the fifth-seed in the NCAA East Region where they took LeMoyne to 10 innings before securing a 1-0 victory and the right to play Franklin Pierce. The Wildcats dropped a 7-1 decision to Franklin Pierce before bowing out of the NCAA East Regional Tournament with a 6-3 loss to Southern New Hampshire.

Dominican College earned 107 points and eight second-place votes after finishing last season with a 13-7 CACC record. The Chargers, a three-seed in last season's CACC Championship, saw their 2012 come to a close at the hands of Felician College; falling to the Falcons 7-4 in game seven of the Championship.

Felician, the 2012 CACC Regular-Season Champions, finished third in the preseason poll, earning 99 points and three second-place votes.

Holding onto the fourth spot in the poll was Nyack. The Warriors, 26-28 overall and 11-9 in the CACC last season, bowed out of the CACC Championship in the first round last season after suffering a 5-4 loss to Bloomfield who rounded out the top five, earning 68 points.

2012-13 CACC Baseball Preseason Poll

Rank

Institution

2012 CACC Record

Points

First-Place Votes

1

Wilmington

14-6

121

(11)

2

Dominican

13-7

107
 

3

Felician

16-4

99
 

4

Nyack

11-9

74
 

5

Bloomfield

13-7

68
 

6

Concordia

9-11

56
 

7

Post

7-13

53
 

8

USciences

8-12

43
 

9

Chestnut Hill

5-15

36
 

10

Caldwell

9-11

34
 

11

Philadelphia

5-15

31

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.