ABCA POLL | D3BASEBALL.COM POLL
BEVERLY, Mass. — The Endicott baseball team has been ranked inside the top-5 on the final American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com polls, respectively.
The Gulls were slotted third overall on the ABCA Poll, a year-end program record, and fourth via D3baseball.com — marking their highest finish ever from the media organization.
The previous year-end school record was No. 5 on the 2023 ABCA final poll.
YEAR IN REVIEW
Endicott posted a 47-4 overall record, a 13-1 conference mark, and a perfect 25-0 record at home.
The Gulls captured their third straight Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship, won the Mansfield Regional Championship, and swept No. 6/7 Johns Hopkins (7-5, 10 inn. | 5-2) at home to punch their ticket to the College World Series for the second straight season.
At the NCAA Division III Championship, Endicott secured its first-ever victory on the game's biggest stage by defeating No. 9/12 Pomona-Pitzer, 7-6, in walk-off fashion on Saturday, June 1.
Additional milestones for this year's squad include a program record 47 wins, becoming the first varsity sport in school history to earn a No. 1 national ranking, and a third straight New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) D3 Team of the Year award.
TOP-25 NCAA NATIONAL RANKINGS
- Walks (1st, 316)
- Doubles (23, 103)
- Earned Run Average (1st, 2.99)
- Fielding Percentage (1st, .979)
- Hit By Pitch (17th, 95)
- Hits (16th, 526)
- Hits Allowed Per Nine Innings (1st, 6.92)
- Home Runs (14th, 53)
- On-Base Percentage (9th, .435)
- Runs (6th, 451)
- Scoring (24th, 8.8)
- Shutouts (11th, 6)
- Stolen Bases (13th, 130)
- Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (5th, 2.94)
- Strikeouts Per Nine Innings (9th, 9.8)
- Triples (16th, 19)
- WHIP (1st, 1.14)
- Win-Loss Percentage (1st, .922)
- Walks Allowed Per Nine Innings (17th, 3.32)
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