WASHINGTON, Pa. -- The Washington & Jefferson College baseball team concluded 2021 ranked No. 13 in the final D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll of the season.

The Presidents finished 2021 with a 37-3 overall record. The 37 wins represent the third most in a single-season in program history, trailing only the Division III CWS teams from 2017 and 2019.  With a 3-0 win over Saint Vincent College on May 15, W&J captured its 13th Presidents' Athletic Conference title and punched its ticket to the NCAA Division III Tournament for an eighth time. W&J finished with a Division III best .925 winning percentage in 2021.

The Presidents made their debut in the D3baseball.com rankings in week six and were subsequently ranked in the final nine polls. W&J ascended as high as No. 2 in the rankings in week 12 and remained at that spot until finishing at No. 13 in the final poll. 

Salisbury University, the 2021 Division III national champion, finished in the top spot with a 34-4 record. St. Thomas (Minn.), Washington Univ. in St Louis, Cortland (N.Y.) and Adrian rounded out the top five teams. 

Individually, sophomore utility Tyler Horvat (Irwin, Pa./Penn-Trafford) and junior pitcher Henry Litman (Marietta, Ga./Walton) earned All-America honors from both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com. Senior outfielder Adam Morris (South Park, Pa./South Park) joined Horvat and Litman as First Team All-Mideast Region selections by the ABCA. 

That trio, along with senior pitcher Nick Drake (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan) and senior pitcher/outfielder Michael Zito (Nashville, Tenn./Hume-Fogg) were All-Mideast Region honorees from D3baseball.com. Morris (Player), Litman (Pitcher) and Horvat (Newcomer) collected PAC yearly awards.

Jeff Mountain, in his 19th-year leading the program, was recognized as Mideast Region Coach of the Year by D3baseball.com for the first time and was honored as PAC Coach of the Year for a ninth time in his coaching career. 
 

Final 2021 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25

Through end of the 2021 season.

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Salisbury (25)	34-4	625	6
2	St. Thomas	37-10	598	19
3	Washington U.	34-6	576	1
4	Cortland	33-9	533	15
5	Adrian	37-10	520	10
6	Wheaton (Mass.)	21-7	489	12
7	Rowan	29-6	474	7
8	Marietta	38-6	428	4
9	UW-Whitewater	40-7	412	5
10	Johns Hopkins	15-6	358	rv
11	Webster	37-8	344	3
12	Southern Maine	34-11	323	11
13	Washington and Jefferson	37-3	278	2
14	Aurora	38-8	263	8
15	Denison	27-13	213	rv
16	Birmingham-Southern	28-16	201	rv
17	Trinity (Texas)	28-9	184	9
18	North Central (Ill.)	38-9	174	13
19	Eastern Connecticut	32-8	162	14
20	Texas Lutheran	30-14	144	24
21	Pacific	34-15	128	rv
22	Chapman	15-6	104	25
23	St. John Fisher	31-6	95	16
24	North Carolina Wesleyan	33-10	84	17
25	Northwestern (Minn.)	35-12	67	-

Dropped out: No. 18 Oswego State, No. 20 Coe, No. 21 Shenandoah, No 22. Babson, No. 23 Berry.

Others receiving votes: Lynchburg 46, Oswego 45, Tufts 34, Shenandoah 29, Texas-Dallas 28, Coe 27, Misericordia 23, Babson 21, Berry 17, Penn St.-Behrend 15, Augustana (Ill.) 14, Saint Mary's (Minn.) 11, Penn St.-Harrisburg 8, York (Pa.) 7, Salve Regina 7, William Paterson 7, Keystone 6, LaGrange 3.