The Millsaps Majors baseball team is making noise on a national level. In the first ABCA poll of 2004, the Majors are ranked 27th in the nation!! (Please see poll below.)

American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball (3/29/04)

NCAA Division III Baseball Poll

Rank School Record Points Preseason Rank

1. (3) Johns Hopkins (Md.) 17-0 233 6

2. (3) Emory (Ga.) 27-1 230 12

3. (1) Carthage (Wis.) 10-1 213 9

4t. (1) Wis.-Oshkosh 9-1 212 2

4t. Trinity (Texas) 25-3 212 nr

6. Eastern Connecticut State 8-5 195 1

7. Wooster (Ohio) 13-3 194 10

8. Rowan (N.J.) 16-2 186 19

9t. Virginia Wesleyan 13-5 159 17

9t. Mississippi College 18-4 159 18

11t. St. Thomas (Minn.) 14-2 157 nr

11t. Marietta (Ohio) 14-2 157 nr

13. Cortland (N.Y.) State 8-8 144 8

14. Trinity (Conn.) 11-3 140 5

15. Chapman (Calif.) 18-7 137 4

16. Lynchburg (Va.) 19-4 103 nr

17. Augustana (Ill.) 13-3 96 nr

18. Ithaca (N.Y.) 9-4 87 nr

19. Denison (Ohio) 12-3 80 21

20. New Jersey 10-3 71 nr

21. Cal State-Hayward 18-5 68 nr

22. Ferrum (Va.) 21-4 64 nr

23. Rose-Hulman (Ind.) 18-2 62 nr

24. Wis.-Whitewater 7-4 60 26

25. Suffolk (Mass.) 11-4 43 nr

26. Salisbury (Md.) 18-6 39 nr

27. Millsaps 21-6 28 nr

28. Mary Washington (Va.) 18-6 25 23

29. Rensselaer (N.Y.) 9-6 24 30

30. Wartburg (Iowa) 11-8 21 20

Also receiving votes and named on more than one ballot (alphabetically): Heidelberg (Ohio), Linfield (Ore.), St. Scholastica (Minn.), Texas Lutheran, Texas-Dallas.