Behrend Lions Ranked 29th in Country in ABCA Baseball Poll
The 2009 ABCA-Rawlings Mid-Atlantic All-Region Baseball Team was announced yesterday with three Behrend Lions players earning recognition. The Behrend Lions program completed another strong season on the diamond. Behrend registered a 31-13 record, a year after earning a 34-12 mark, and captured its second straight AMCC regular season and conference tournament titles. The blue and white also have appeared in two consecutive NCAA Tournaments.
The Penn State Behrend Lions are ranked twenty-ninth in the latest American Baseball Coaches Association Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III Poll that was released on May 5.
For several weeks throughout the 2009 season Behrend has bounced between being ranked twenty-second and twenty-ninth in the ABCA and D3baseball.com polls. It the most recent NCAA Mid-Atlantic Poll, the blue and white were ranked fourth in the region.
For the second straight season the Behrend Lions (28-11) will be hosting the 2009 AMCC Baseball Championship on the Behrend diamond May 8-10.
Behrend captured its second straight AMCC regular season baseball title by virtue of a 16-2 record in regular season play and will be the number one seed, while Frostburg State (24-12, 15-3) is the two seed. Penn State Altoona (28-15, 12-6) and Pitt-Greensburg (19-17, 9-9) advanced in the first-round of the tournament enabling both winners to advance to the championship round at Penn State Behrend and enter as the third and fifth seed.
The winner of the Tournament will earn the AMCC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Last season, Behrend, the AMCC regular season champions dropped Bradford 9-8 in game seven to win the league title and move on to the NCAA Tournament while posting a 34-12 record. Behrend also hosted the AMCC Tournament in 2002 and 2003.
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