SALISBURY, Md. – Presenting Roadie Joes Rankings for the fourth Wednesday in September, featuring national bonafides for Salisbury University field hockey and football.
Field Hockey – 4th | Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III Coaches Poll, Sept. 23
Salisbury held onto fourth with 410 points as part of a top six (Middlebury, Christopher Newport, Johns Hopkins, SU, Williams, Babson) that remained unchanged from the previous week.
The Sea Gulls pitched a pair of shutouts during the week, blanking Stevenson 2-0 on Wednesday and holding then-No. 10 Shenandoah off the board 3-0 on Saturday. SU outshot its foes by a combined margin of 36-4 during the week, with goalkeepers
Kelly Davis,
Abbey McIlvain, and
Merfie Lawson all seeing time in the cage to help extend the team's shutout streak to three games.
SU wraps up a four-game homestand against Catholic on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Then on Saturday, the Sea Gulls play their first-ever game as a member of the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC), heading north to battle Cortland on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Football – 6th | D3football.com Top 25, Week 3
Salisbury rose one slot from seventh to sixth with 464 points, sitting just two back of fifth-ranked UW-La Crosse (466) and well ahead of seventh-ranked Wartburg (430).
The Sea Gulls were idle on Saturday and will return to the gridiron on Saturday with its nonconference finale at Catholic. Kickoff from Washington, D.C. is slated for 2 p.m.
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (field hockey), and Colonial Women's Golf Conference (women's golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 205 conference championships, and have produced 53 Academic All-Americans.
To Make Tomorrow Yours at Salisbury University, and learn more about Sea Gull Athletics' tradition of excellence, visit SUSeaGulls.com or follow on social media @SUSeaGulls.
