Clippers picked 5th in CACC Baseball Pre-Season Poll

With baseball on the horizon the CACC Baseball Pre-season Poll was released.  The Clippers, the conference newcomers, were picked 5th out the 11 teams.  The Clippers will return 18 letterwinners including 9 starters.  The team will start their 2010 season off at Adelphi on February 23rd at 3:00pm.  The Clippers will officially open their CACC season at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia on March 20th.

The Clippers look to place in the top 6 in the conference as the CACC Tournament has been expanded to include six team for the first time.  A pair of single-elimination first-round games will be hosted on campus sites on Tuesday, May 4. The remaining four teams will play a double-elimination tournament at Wilmington University on May 6-8.

      The complete 2010 CACC Pre-season Baseball Poll is listed below.

CACC Baseball

2010 Pre-season Coaches' Poll

                                        School                                            2009 Records             Points

                                        1.     Dominican (8)                       38-14/22-5 CACC           118

                                        2.     Wilmington (1)                     29-29/15-12                     107

                                        3.     Felician (1)                             24-24/14-13                      96

                                        4.     Bloomfield                             18-26/15-12                      75

                                        5.     Concordia                              23-23-1/14-10*                67

                                        6.     Post                                        24-18/13-14                      63

                                        7.     Caldwell                                 18-23/12-15                      61

                                        8.     Philadelphia (1)                     17-27/14-13                      47

                                        9.     Chestnut Hill                         18-25/13-14                      46

                                        10.   Nyack                                     20-17/15-12                      35

                                        11.   USP                                        3-41/2-25                          11

                                        ()-First Place Votes

                                        *-Record as member of ECC