August 8, 2001
B.B. Branton
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Men's Soccer:
Sewanee Ranked 25th in Pre-Season National Poll
(SEWANEE, Tenn.) -- The University of the South men's soccer team is ranked No. 25 in the NSCAA/Adidas Div. III National Pre-Season Poll released today.
Defending Div. III national champion Messiah (Pa.) is No. 1.
The Tigers were 16-3-0 last season and finished at No. 20 in the final national poll, while playing in the strongest NCAA Div. III conference, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Sewanee is one of three teams from the SCAC in the top 25. Trinity (Texas) is No. 8 and DePauw (Ind.) is No. 16.
Sewanee opens the season with Carthage (Wisc.) on Sept. 1 in a opening round match in the Kyle Rote Jr. Classic here on the Mountain.
| Ranking | School |
| 1 | Messiah (Pa.) |
| 2 | Rowan (N.J.) |
| 3 | Linfield College (Ore.) |
| 4 | Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
| 5 | Ohio Wesleyan |
| 6 | Williams (Mass.) |
| 7 | Christopher Newport (Va.) |
| 8 | Trinity (Texas) |
| 9 | Saint Lawrence (N.Y.) |
| 10 | Washington and Lee (Va.) |
| 11 | Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins (Md.) |
| 13 | Wheaton (Mass.) |
| 14 | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| 15 | Middlebury (Vt.) |
| 16 | DePauw (Ind.) |
| 17 | Hamilton (N.Y.) |
| 18 | Kean (N.J.) |
| 19 | Elizabethtown (Pa.) |
| 20 | Plattsburg State (N.Y.) |
| 21 | Claremont-Mudd Scripps Coll. (Calif.) |
| 22 | Drew (N.J.) |
| 23 | Wilmington (Ohio) |
| 24 | Salisbury State (Md.) |
| 25 | Sewanee (Tenn.) |