TUCSON, Ariz. --- For a fourth straight season, the Tusculum College baseball team has ended the season nationally ranked. The Pioneers are listed 30th in the country in the final 2008 Collegiate Baseball Division II Coaches' Poll after posting a 41-15 overall record.

Tusculum closed out the season on a 17-4 run, including four in a row to win the Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament, earning TC its second straight trip to the NCAA II Tournament and fourth in the last six years.

Mount Olive College claimed the top spot in the final poll by winning its first-ever national championship. The Trojans posted an impressive 58-6 record, with one of those six defeats coming to Tusculum in the season-opening series in February. Ouachita Baptist finished second with a 50-16 record, while Sonoma State claimed the No. 3 spot. Central Missouri State is fourth, followed by Delta State, Cal State Chico, Columbus State, Nebraska-Omaha, Emporia State and Tampa to round out the top 10.

USC Aiken is 11th, while Southern Arkansas and Ashland tied for 12th. Abilene Christian is 14th, followed by UC San Diego, Valdosta State, Catawba, Franklin Pierce, West Alabama, North Georgia, Shippensburg, St. Joseph's (Ind.), Wayne State (Mich.), Wayne State (Neb.), West Chester, Western Oregon, Francis Marion, Bryant, Carson-Newman, Tusculum, St. Edward's and Cal State Stanislaus.

In each of the last four nationally-ranked seasons, the Pioneers finished with over 40 wins.

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