By Zaji Lieberman

D3soccer.com

The Ohio Northern women's soccer team receives votes in the sixth weekly D3soccer.com poll.

Ohio Northern received 2 votes and was ranked No. 20 in last week's poll.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Trinity (Tex.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.

Last week, Northern fell at Capital 2-1 and at Baldwin-Wallace 1-0.

ONU has now been nationally ranked in each of the last two seasons and were ranked as high as No. 19 this season.

The Polar Bears will return to action Tuesday with a 4 pm match against Otterbein at the ONU Soccer Field.

D3soccer.com Women's Poll - #6
Oct. 9, 2012

Rank
School (1st Pl. Votes)
2012
Record
Pts.
Last
Week
1. Emory (Ga.) (16) 8-0-3 614 1
2. Messiah (Pa.) (4) 10-1-1 605 3
3.  Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) (3) 9-0-1 584 4
4. Ithaca (N.Y.) (1) 12-0-1 532 5
5. Virginia Welseyan 12-0-1 526 6
6. Lynchburg (Va.) 11-0-2 500 7
7. Trinity (Tex.) 8-1-2 472 2
8. Centre (Ky.) (1) 11-0-1 450 10
9. University of Washington 9-1-1 430 12
10. Wheaton (Ill.) 10-2-1 420 11
11. New Jersey 11-1-0 343 13
12. Aurora (Ill.) 13-0-1 323 16
13. William Smith (N.Y.) 9-2-1 313 14
14. Wheaton (Mass.) 11-0-2 303 15
15. Amherst (Mass.) 6-1-1 266 9
16. Middlebury (Vt.) 8-1-1 241 8
17. Johns Hopkins (Md.) 9-2-1 233 18
18. Wartburg (Iowa) 9-1-2 192 21
19. Union (N.Y.) 10-1-0 164 23
20. Brandeis (Mass.) 10-1-1 161 19
21. Montclair (N.J.) 11-1-1 110 17
22. Williams (Mass.) 7-2-1 108 -
23. Misericordia (Pa.) 9-2-1 59 24
24. Thomas More (Ky.) 12-1-0 54 -
25. Bowdoin (Maine) 8-2-0 40 22
Others Receiving Votes:  University of Massachusetts-Boston 39,  University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 36, Kean (N.J.) 31, Loras (Iowa) 26, Rowan (N.J.) 18, California Lutheran 18, Concordia-Moorhead (Minn.) 17, Alma (Mich.) 14, Grove City (Pa.) 11, Linfield (Ore.) 7, Calvin (Mich.) 5, Westfield State (Mass.) 4, New Paltz State (N.Y.) 4, Washington and Lee (Va.) 3, Case Western Reserve 3, Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) 3, Mary Washington (Va.) 2, Lasell (Mass.) 2, Brockport State (N.Y.) 2, Ohio Northern 2, Hanover (Ind.) 1, Mississippi College 1, Richard Stockton (N.J.) 1.