Lincoln Memorial took over the top spot in the NCAA Division II rankings following defending champion Franklin Pierce’s 2-0 loss to Dominican (N.Y.) on goals by Edwin Miranda and junior Joe Wright. Lincoln Memorial’s Railsplitters opened with a 2-0 win over Delta State and 3-0 win over Barton. In Division III, the highest-ranked team to lose was No. 6 Washington (Mo.), which fell to University of the South, 3-1, at the Birmingham Southern Labor Day Classic.
NCAA Division III
School Prev. W-L-T
1 Lincoln Memorial 2 2-0-0
2 Midwestern State 3 2-0-0
3 Northern Kentucky 5 2-0-0
4 Sonoma State 6 2-0-0
5 Dominican (N.Y.) NR 2-0-0
6 Lynn NR 2-0-0
7 East Stroudsburg 8 1-1-0
8 Cal State Dominguez Hills 11 2-0-0
9 Dowling 9 1-0-0
10 Fort Lewis 16 0-0-0
11 Lewis 13 2-0-0
12 West Texas A&M 12 1-0-0
13 Tusculum NR 2-0-0
14 Nova Southeastern NR 2-0-0
14 Davis & Elkins 24 2-0-0
16 Colorado Mines NR 1-0-0
17 Lander 18 1-0-0
18 New York Tech NR 1-0-0
19 Truman State NR 2-0-0
20 Barry NR 2-0-0
21 Quincy NR 2-0-0
22 Cal Poly Pomona NR 1-0-0
23 West Chester NR 2-0-0
24 Mesa State NR 2-0-0
25 Merrimack NR 2-0-0
25 Saint Leo NR 2-0-0
NCAA Division III
School Prev. W-L-T
1 Middlebury 1 0-0-0
2 Trinity (Texas) 2 2-0-0
3 Messiah 4 2-0-0
4 Loras 3 2-0-0
5 York 5 2-0-0
6 Stevens Tech 17 2-0-0
6 Montclair State 7 2-0-0
8 Ohio Wesleyan NR 2-0-0
9 Emory 13 2-0-0
9 Amherst 11 0-0-0
11 College of New Jersey NR 2-0-0
12 Dominican (Ill.) 18 0-0-0
13 Case Western Reserve 22 2-0-0
14 Rochester 10 1-0-1
15 Whitworth NR 2-0-0
16 Carnegie Mellon NR 1-0-0
17 Salisbury 22 2-0-0
18 Hobart 20 2-0-0
19 Williams 19 0-0-0
20 Rutgers-Camden NR 2-0-0
21 Colorado College NR 2-0-0
22 Hope NR 2-0-0
23 Principia NR 2-0-0
24 Swarthmore NR 1-0-1
25 Mary Washington NR 2-0-0