Three-time defending champs No. 1 in first national poll of the season
SALISBURY, Md. – The Salisbury University field hockey team, the three-time defending NCAA Division III national champions, were named the No. 1 ranked team in the first 2006 STX/National Field Hockey Coaches Association coaches poll released on Tuesday, September 12. Salisbury received 38 first-place votes out of a possible 54.

The Sea Gulls (5-0) are off to a perfect season thus far as they won three games this past weekend in the Salisbury Invitational. SU currently has a 15-game winning streak dating back to October 9, 2005.

Salisbury is on the road this week with two non-conference in-state games against John Hopkins University and Frostburg State University. SU will travel to Baltimore on Wednesday, September 13 for a 7 p.m. game under the lights against the Blue Jays before venturing west this weekend for a Saturday, September 16 game versus the Bobcats.

STX/NFHCA Division III National Coaches Poll (9.12.06)
( ) First-place votes
1. Salisbury (38)
2. Messiah (12)
3. The College of New Jersey (2)
4. Rowan
5. SUNY Cortland
6. Montclair State
7. Ursinus (1)
8. Bowdoin
9. Lebanon Valley
10. Middlebury
11. Springfield
12. William Smith
13. Gettysburg
14. Skidmore
15. Elizabethtown
16. Williams
17. King’s (1)
18. Juniata
19. William Paterson
20. Catholic