WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Midwestern State remained at No. 3 in the latest National Fast-pitch Coaches' Association Division II Top 25 poll released Wednesday morning.
 
The Mustangs are off to the best start in school history at 30-3 and have won eight of their last nine games heading into the Lone Star Conference Crossover Tournament this weekend at Texas Bank Sports Complex in San Angelo.
 
MSU begins the tournament Friday against No. 2 Angelo State at 12:30 p.m. before taking on Abilene Christian at 4:30 p.m.
 
The Mustangs played Texas A&M-Kingsville and No. 15 West Texas A&M on Saturday before closing the round-robin with Texas Woman's and Tarleton State on Saturday.
 
Midwestern is one of seven teams from the South Central Region to receive mention in the poll joining No. 2 Angelo State, No. 15 West Texas A&M, No. 16 Emporia State (Kan.) and No. 21 Nebraska-Omaha while St. Mary's (Texas) and Missouri Western are receiving votes.
 
The No. 3 ranking matches the highest in program history.
  

NFCA Division II Poll
March 30, 2011
Rank	School	Record																										Points	Previous
1	Alabama-Huntsville	24-1-1																										394	2
2	Angelo State (Texas)	27-3																										388	1
3	Midwestern State (Texas)	30-3																										346	3
4	North Georgia	31-8																										339	5
5	Valdosta State (Ga.)	14-4																										313	4
6	Western Washington	19-2																										289	9
7	Rollins (Fla.)	32-1																										265	17
8	Minnesota State-Mankato	23-4																										258	15
9	Indiana (Pa.)	19-2																										248	14
10	Lenoir-Rhyne	25-6																										238	12
11	Winona State (Minn.)	14-3																										225	8
12	Tampa (Fla.)	29-4																										219	10
13	Indianapolis (Ind.)	18-7-1																										190	13
14	Bloomsburg (Pa.)	15-3																										169	16
15	West Texas A&M	25-8																										149	11
16	California-San Diego	20-6																										147	20
	Emporia State (Kan.)	21-6																										147	25t
18	Arkansas-Monticello	26-6																										134	7
19	Dowling (N.Y.)	14-2																										128	22
20	Augustana (S.D.)	16-3																										112	18
21	Nebraska-Omaha	23-5																										79	24
22	Hawaii Pacific	20-6																										78	6
23	Armstrong Atlantic (Ga.)	20-6																										70	23
24	Shippensburg (Pa.)	20-8																										59	NR
25	Kutztown (Pa.)	25-6																										50	19
Others Receving Votes: Sonoma State (Calif.) 34; Molloy (N.Y.) 32; Lewis (Ill.) 23; West Virginia Wesleyan 15; New Haven (Conn.) 10; Columbus State (Ga.) 9; St. Mary's (Texas) 8; Missouri Western 7; Saginaw Valley State (Mich.) 6; Tiffin (Ohio) 6; Flagler (Fla.) 5; Concordia-St. Paul 4; California (Pa.) 2; Tusculum (Tenn.) 2;  Dixie State (Utah) 2; C.W. Post (N.Y.) 1.
Dropped out: No. 21 West Virginia Wesleyan, No. 25 Missouri Western