The University of Southern Maine baseball climbed to #5 in the nation in the weekly D3 baseball poll and then lost two games Monday afternoon down in Florida.

Coach Ed Flaherty's Huskies are on their week long southern swing. After winning their first four games, USM lost to RIT 7-5 in 15 innings. Then Salve Regina beat the Huskies 9-4.

The Huskies have four more games in Florida.

Check out the D3baseball.com national poll...

Through games of Sunday March 20, 2016

#School (1st votes)RecPtsPrev.
1Trinity (Texas) (11)20-45992
2Cortland (8)14-35871
3Birmingham-Southern18-45373
4Ramapo (2)12-051512
5Southern Maine (3)4-05097
6Randolph-Macon15-34786
7Emory17-64604
8UW-Whitewater2-04439
9Shenandoah (1)13-44118
10Whitworth17-437714
11Salisbury10-530810
12Centenary (La.)17-329624
13UW-La Crosse6-42765
14Christopher Newport14-525615
15Rutgers-Camden8-222925
16Frostburg State9-620011
17Texas-Tyler15-714018
18Mary Washington15-712017
19Oswego State8-311816
20St. Thomas3-111423
21Western New England8-0103rv
22Wooster4-28919
23Buena Vista5-182rv
24UW-Stevens Point1-37813
25Concordia-Chicago10-57120

Dropped out: No. 21 Piedmont. No. 22 Washington (Mo.).

Others receiving votes: Amherst 68, Keystone 56, Piedmont 53, Washington (Mo.) 44, Rhodes 42, Wheaton (Mass.) 34, Redlands 34, Mt. St. Joseph 33, McDaniel 28, Maryville (Tenn.) 26, Marietta 25, TCNJ 24, La Roche 24, North Central (Ill.) 23, Eastern Conn. St. 18, Mitchell 12, Benedictine 11, Ferrum 11, Berry 10, Kean 9, Ohio Northern 9, Otterbein 9, Misericordia 9, Occidental 8, Saint Mary's (Minn.) 8, Haverford 7, Methodist 7, Webster 7, Brockport St. 5, Fredonia 4, La Verne 4, New Jersey City 3, Penn St.-Berks 3, Roanoke 3, Denison 2, Johns Hopkins 2, Penn St.-Behrend 2, Wesleyan (Conn.) 2, Bowdoin 1, Moravian 1, Pacific 1.

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