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Sports News: Winter 2009-10

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

MORAVIAN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM FALLS TO 17TH IN LATEST D3HOOPS.COM TOP 25 POLL

MINNEAPOLIS, MN --- The Moravian College women’s basketball team, which now has a 6-2 overall record, dropped five spots to 17th in the nation in the third D3hoop.com Top 25 Poll of the season announced Tuesday.  The complete poll can be viewed at http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/.

The Greyhounds, under the direction of 23-year head coach Mary Beth Spirk, were ranked 12th in last week’s poll and 23rd in the first regular season poll after being 15th in the preseason poll.  Moravian received 149 points in the poll this week after 313 points last week and 107 points in the first poll.

Illinois Wesleyan University is ranked first in the nation with 611 points and 16 first-place votes while Amherst College is ranked second with 591 total points and three first-place votes.  Hope (MI) College is third with 588 points and the remaining six first-place votes.

Moravian defeated now 12th ranked The University of Scranton, 73-63, on December 5th when Scranton was fourth in the nation, and the Greyhounds dropped an 84-71 decision to 13th ranked Muhlenberg College on December 7th.

Moravian will return to action on Wednesday, December 30th when the Greyhounds travel to Neumann University for a 7:00 p.m.

The D3hoops.com Top 25 poll is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.  The next poll will be on Tuesday, December 15th.