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Diplomats Ranked #10 in September 13 STX/NFHCA Division III Field Hockey Poll

by Sports Information
9/13/05

LANCASTER, PA – The Franklin & Marshall College field hockey team is ranked #10 in the September 13 STX/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III National Coaches Poll.

Ranked #11 in the final 2004 poll, Franklin & Marshall has opened the season 4-0 as the team has defeated CW Post (2-0 W), Drew (2-1 OT W), Elizabethtown (5-2 W) and #11 Lebanon Valley (3-2 OT W) as F&M received 432 votes in the poll.

The Diplomats are one of three Centennial Conference teams ranked in the top 20 as Ursinus College (2-1) received 673 votes to rank #6 and Gettysburg picked up 321 votes to rank #13.

The National Field Hockey Coaches Association Poll is voted upon by NFHCA member coaches and has no bearing on selection to the 2005 NCAA Division III Championship field.

Franklin & Marshall (4-0, 0-0 CC) will return to action on September 17 at Eastern Mennonite University. Game time is set for 2:00 p.m.

September 13 STX/NFHCA Division III Field Hockey Poll
1. Salisbury (5-0)
2. Middlebury (2-0)
3. Messiah (3-1)
4. TCNJ (4-0)
5. SUNY-Cortland (4-0)
6. Ursinus (2-1)
7. William Smith (3-1)
8. Rowan (4-0)
9. Springfield (3-1)
10. F&M (4-0)
11. Lebanon Valley (3-1)
12. Montclair (4-0)
13. Gettysburg (3-1)
14. Williams (1-0)
15. Skidmore (2-0)
16. St. Lawrence (3-0)
17. Bowdoin (2-0)
18. Hartwick (1-2)
Kean (5-0)
20. Utica (3-1)

 

 

   


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