From Emory University Athletics

After finishing as the runners-up at the 2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Championships, the Emory University Baseball Team will enter the 2015 campaign as the second-ranked squad in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Pre-Season Poll.

It marks the highest preseason ranking in the Collegiate Baseball News poll in the program's history, and the Eagles' best ranking in the poll overall since the final rankings of the 2007 season.

Emory went 38-13 during the 2014 campaign and matched the best finish in the program's history by placing second at the NCAA Championships.  Among Emory's returning players are consensus all-American Brett Lake, and all-region selections in Connor Dillman, Wes Peacock and Hans Hansen.

The Eagles will face three opponents during the 2015 regular season that are nationally ranked in the preseason poll – 11^th-ranked Webster University (February 22^nd in Millington, Tennessee), 16^th-ranked Case Western Reserve University (March 9^th and March 14^th in Sanford, Florida) and 19^th-ranked Birmingham-Southern College (March 3^rd in Atlanta and March 31^st in Birmingham, Alabama).  Emory will play an additional nine games against team that received votes in the preseason poll – February 15^th at home and February 21^st on the road against Rhodes College, March 10^th and March 15^th against Washington University (Mo.) in Sanford, February 16^th at home against St. Joseph's (Me.), March 20^th in Demorest and April 24^th and 25^th at home against Piedmont College, and March 12^th against the University of Rochester in Sanford.