Emory Baseball Ranked Second in
Collegiate Baseball Pre-Season Poll
Source: Emory University Athletics
After finishing as the runnersup at the 2014 NCAA Division III
Baseball Championships, the
Emory University Baseball
Team will enter the 2015
campaign as the second-ranked
squad in the Collegiate Baseball
Newspaper Pre-Season Poll.
It marks the highest preseason
ranking in the Collegiate
Baseball News poll in the
program's history, and the
Eagles' best ranking in the poll
overall since the final rankings
of the 2007 season.
Emory went 38-13 during the 2014 campaign and matched the best finish in the program's history by placing
second at the NCAA Championships. Among Emory's returning players are consensus all-American Brett Lake,
and all-region selections in Connor Dillman, Wes Peacock and Hans Hansen.
The Eagles will face three opponents during the 2015 regular season that are nationally ranked in the preseason
poll – 11th-ranked Webster University (February 22nd in Millington, Tennessee), 16th-ranked Case Western
Reserve University (March 9th and March 14th in Sanford, Florida) and 19th-ranked Birmingham-Southern College
(March 3rd in Atlanta and March 31st in Birmingham, Alabama). Emory will play an additional nine games against
team that received votes in the preseason poll – February 15th at home and February 21st on the road against
Rhodes College, March 10th and March 15th against Washington University (Mo.) in Sanford, February 16th at
home against St. Joseph's (Me.), March 20th in Demorest and April 24th and 25th at home against Piedmont
College, and March 12th against the University of Rochester in Sanford.
The Eagles are slated to open its 2015 season with the Emory Tournament at Chappell Park from February 13 th –
16th. Emory's first game will be against Lynchburg College on Saturday, February 14th at 10:30 AM.