WASHINGTON, Pa. -- The Washington & Jefferson College baseball team earned the No. 17 spot in the 2022 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25 poll, which was recently released by the organization.
The Presidents received 237 points in the preseason poll. Salisbury University, the defending Division III champion, garnered 24 of the 25 first place votes. SUNY Cortland, Marietta, Johns Hopkins and Adrian rounded out the top five.
W&J finished the 2021 season with a 37-3 overall record. The 37 wins represented the third most in a single-season in program history, trailing only the Division III College World Series 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 2021 with a Division III best .925 winning percentage.
Senior starting pitcher
Henry Litman (Marietta, Ga./Walton) and junior utility man
Tyler Horvat (Irwin, Pa./Penn-Trafford) were named Preseason All-Americans by D3baseball.com last week.
The Presidents are scheduled to host No. 3 Marietta, the University of Mount Union and the College of Wooster during its non-conference schedule. Both the Purple Raiders and Fightin Scots are listed in the "Others Receiving Votes" category in the preseason poll.
W&J is tentatively scheduled to open the 2022 campaign with a non-conference doubleheader at Mount Union on Feb. 19.
