NEW ORLEANS, La. --- The Moravian College men's & women's track & field teams are both ranked in the Mideast Region in the third NCAA Division III Regional Team Index of the 2012 outdoor season released by the U S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Wednesday with the Moravian men second in the region while the women are third. The men are also ranked 18th in the national poll.

The Greyhound men have a total of 276.54 points. Haverford College leads the Mideast Region with 277.33 points. Salisbury University is third with 241.95 points. Carnegie Mellon University is fourth with 217.38 and Messiah College rounds out the top five with 215.53 points.

The Greyhound women have a total of 194.82 points. Salisbury tops the women's top ten with 263.51 while Johns Hopkins University is second with 227.63 points. Elizabethtown College is fourth with 193.77 points while Westminster (Pa.) College is fifth with 180.32 points.

The scoring system for the teams shall be the sum of two factors measured per individual/relay performance on the national descending-order lists: place on the descending order list and a weighed value of the individual/relay performance based on the field ("bonus"). Complete information and the polls can also be found at http://www.ustfccca.org/rankings/division-iii-rankings.

Moravian will return to action on Friday and Saturday, April 20th and 21st as they host the Greyhound Invitational.