Thursday, May 23, 2013

XU Rush match highest-ever ranking, 5th, in postseason poll

NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana climbed one place to fifth Tuesday in the NAIA Men's Tennis Postseason Coaches' Top 25 Poll.
    

Xavier (15-8) matched its highest-ever rating in an NAIA men's tennis poll. The Gold Rush were fifth in the polls of April 16 and 30 before dropping to sixth on May 6.
    

It's the third consecutive year that the XU men are in the top 10 of the season's final poll. This is the second straight year that the final poll occurred after the NAIA National Championship. The Gold Rush ranked eighth in 2011 and seventh in 2012.
    

The Gold Rush became the first XU program to reach the quarterfinals of an NAIA National Championship in consecutive seasons. Vanguard eliminated the Rush 5-2 in that round on Thursday.
    

Coupled with the Gold Nuggets' No. 3 ranking, it makes Xavier one of two schools — Auburn Montgomery is the other — with both tennis teams in the 2013 postseason top five.
    

The Gold Rush are in the top 25 for the 50th consecutive time — a streak which began April 4, 2007 — and in the top 10 for the 20th straight time.

 
NAIA Men's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses — records through end of season)

RankTeamRecordPointsLast
1Embry-Riddle (Fla.) (13)24-23431
2Auburn Montgomery21-43322
3Vanguard24-13213
4Westmont13-113104
5Xavier15-82946
6Lindsey Wilson17-42908
7Cumberland19-52749
8Aquinas25-526912
9Bethany (Kan.)22-22545
10Bethel (Tenn.)20-22487
11Concordia (Calif.)12-1322610
12Belhaven16-522211
13William Carey9-6202tie-13
14Graceland15-720018
15Northwestern Ohio14-818817
16Northwood (Fla.)12-618215
17Warner13-1016519
18Oklahoma Baptist15-11163tie-13
19Olivet Nazarene11-1314621
20Lewis-Clark State7-913416
21Pikeville10-512620
22Campbellsville10-1210522
23McPherson21-89823
24Davenport18-79624
25Webber International10-127525

Others receiving votes: Indiana Wesleyan 69, Coastal Georgia 51, Martin Methodist 48, Grace 21, Asbury 16, Mobile 9, Spring Arbor 9, St. Francis (Ill.) 8, Doane 6.


By Ed Cassiere, SID
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA

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