The Baseball Observer - Jan/ Feb 2017
of the Year RHP Billy Dimlow from a season ago.
The Eagles will face three programs that make an appearance in the preseason poll beginning with the aforementioned fifth-ranked Birmingham-Southern College. Emory travels to BSC on March 15th before hosting the Panthers on April 18th. The Eagles welcome UAA foe Case Western Reserve University (RV) to Chappell Park for a four-game series starting on March 24th which will be followed by another four-game set in St. Louis against 12th-ranked Washington University beginning on March 31st.
Emory opens the 2017 season with a three-game series against Sewanee, starting on February 11th, the first of seven straight contests at Chappell Park.
Mahwah, NJ: The Ramapo College baseball team have been ranked 7th in the 2017 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Pre-Season Poll. The poll ranks the top 40 NCAA Division III teams in the country.
The Roadrunners finished the 2016 season with a 35-12 overall record the 8th time under head coach Rich Martin the team has posted 25 wins or more. Last season also saw the Roadrunners reach the top of the NJAC for the second time in program history winning the NJAC Tournament Championship. Ramapo also earned their fifth NCAA Tournament appearance in the last six seasons.
Ramapo is
ranked ahead
of NJAC rivals
Kean (#15),
TCNJ (#16),
Rowan (RV).
The Roadrunners return to the diamond for the 2017 season on March 4th at 4pm when they take on Benedictine University at Diamond Nation in Flemington, NJ.
SEGUIN, Texas -- The Texas Lutheran Bulldogs start the 2017 season at No. 10 in Collegiate Baseball's Top 40 Pre-Season Poll for NCAA Division III.
The Bulldogs return four position starters and two pitching starters for 2017.
Leading the TLU returnees will be 2016 All-American and D3baseball.com National Rookie of the Year Nathan Malinovsky. The New Braunfels native, out of New Braunfels High School, was named to the D3baseball.com All-America Third Team.
Malinovsky also was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year and the SCAC Freshman of the Year, and he was selected to the SCAC All-Tournament Team.
Coming off an injury-shortened 2015 in which he tossed only 8-2/3 innings and received a medical redshirt, Malinovsky produced a 9-1 record in 2016 with a 1.97 ERA in 87 innings of work. He struck out 58, walked 21 and posted six complete games. He held opponents to a .215 batting average. He led the SCAC in ERA, WHIP, complete games, and opponent batting average.
TLU returns its entire outfield with junior right-fielder Riley Schaefer (Thorndale/Thorndale), senior center-fielder Rayce Gatlin (Orange Grove/Orange Grove/Coastal Bend JC) and senior left-fielder Colby Schrade (Shiner/St. Paul/Trinidad JC). The outfield will look a little different since Schrade, who saw some time in the infield early last season, will move to third base for 2017.
Schaefer scored a team-best 43 runs in 41 games. He played and started in every game for TLU last season. Schaefer hit .371 with six doubles and a triple, and he stole seven bases and drove in 16.
Gatlin also played and started in all 41 games and hit .365 with 23 RBI. He was third on the team in on-base percentage, at .457. Schrade, another 41-game starter, was third on the team in RBI (27), second on the team in hits (53), and third on the squad in runs scored (34).
The only other returning position starter is junior shortstop Eric Rabinowitz (Schertz/Clemens). He started 38 of TLU's 41 games and hit .278 with 26 runs scored. Rabinowitz made just nine errors all year.
The Bulldogs will have new starters at catcher, first base, second base, third base (with Schrade moving from left to third), and left field. TLU has an influx of new pitchers (a collection of junior college transfers and true freshmen) that are expected to rack up a good deal of innings in 2017.
TLU opens the 2017 season with a 7 p.m. home game on Feb. 3 against regional rival Concordia Texas. The Bulldogs and Tornados play a doubleheader on Feb. 4 at Tornado Field in Austin. The doubleheader starts at 2 p.m.
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The Bulldogs, led by 10th-year head coach Greg Burnett, come off a 2016 season that produced a Southern Collegiate Athletic ConferencsCo-Champs (regular season).
TLU produced a 2016 overall record of 26-15 with a conference mark of 14-4. The Bulldogs handed eventual NCAA Division III national champion Trinity University three of the Tigers' seven losses in 2016.
Trinity shared the SCAC regular-season title with TLU last season. The Tigers are ranked 11th in the Collegiate Baseball poll after a 44-7 mark a season ago. Trinity's 2016 lineup featured an every-day lineup of all seniors, so the Tigers will have a new look in 2017.