Indianapolis – The Maryville University baseball team was picked to finish in second place in the Green Division of the Great Lakes Valley Conference for the 2022 season. The Saints received one first-place vote and finished with 42 poll points, just behind first-place Lindenwood's 48 points. University of Illinois Springfield was picked to win the Blue Division.
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The annual GLVC Baseball Preseason Poll was voted on by the league's 15 head coaches and ranks the top eight teams in the Green Division and seven in the Blue Division. Each team is scheduled to play a 36/32-game divisional schedule in which every school plays every divisional opponent in a standard round-robin slate and one/two non-divisional foes in a four-game weekend series.
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The Saints begin the 2022 season as they play three games in the Houston Winter Invitational hosted in Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. Maryville posted a 17-15 mark in GLVC play last season and finished with19 wins overall.
The complete 2022 GLVC preseason poll can be found below.
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| 2022 GLVC BASEBALL PRESEASON POLL – BLUE DIVISION |
| Place |
School |
Points (1st-place votes) |
| 1 |
Illinois Springfield |
36 (6) |
| 2 |
Quincy |
30 (1) |
| 3 |
Southern Indiana |
26 |
| 4 |
Indianapolis |
17 |
| 4 |
Lewis |
17 |
| 6 |
Missouri S&T |
15 |
| 7 |
Truman State |
6 |
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| 2022 GLVC BASEBALL PRESEASON POLL – GREEN DIVISION |
| Place                |
School |
Points (1st-place votes) |
| 1 |
Lindenwood |
48 (6) |
| 2 |
Maryville |
42 (1) |
| 3 |
Drury |
39 (1) |
| 4 |
Southwest Baptist |
25 |
| 5 |
McKendree |
22 |
| 6 |
Rockhurst |
20 |
| 7 |
William Jewell |
17 |
| 8 |
Missouri-St. Louis |
11 |
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