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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 27, 1998 MIAMI, FLA. RANKED NO. 1 FOR 6TH CONSECUTIVE WEEK TUCSON, Ariz. - Miami, Fla. has been ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's latest NCAA Division I baseball poll with a 40-5 record. The Hurricanes, ranked No. 1 for the sixth consecutive week, have won 28 of their last 29 games. Early last week, Miami tied the school win streak mark by recording its 26th consecutive victory in a 22-3 win over Florida Atlantic. Miami was then defeated at Georgia Tech., 22-7 to end the streak. However, the Hurricanes bounced back to win the final two games of the series, 8-5 and 9-8. The Hurricanes have hit 90 home runs in 45 games and are six shy of the school record of 96 set in 1982. As far as pitching, the staff has a 2.9:1 strikeout to walk ratio. POLL NOTES: Several teams have been red-hot outside of Miami. Virginia Commonwealth has won 17 straight, Notre Dame 24 wins in its last 26 games, Cal. St. Fullerton 10 in a row and Rice 8 consecutive. Mississippi State has won 8 of its last 9 while Illinois and Washington have each won six straight contests. The "Collegiate Baseball" newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season. (Top 30 Agate Follows) "Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's" NCAA Div. I Poll (As of April 27, 1998)
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK * OF Spencer Oborn, Brigham Young: Had a monster week as he belted 7 home runs with 27 RBI in six games. In addition to being 20-for-27 at the plate, he hit for the cycle twice in two days against Air Force and missed a third consecutive game with a cycle by a triple. At one point, he banged out 11 consecutive hits and raised his batting average from .364 to .420. He had a slugging percentage of 1.087. * RHP Austin Bilke, Purdue: Threw a no-hitter in the Boilermakers' 1-0 win over Northwestern. The freshman righthander faced 23 Wildcat batters in the 7-inning contest, striking out five and walking three on only 74 pitches. The no-hitter was the first since 1995 for Purdue. * INF Jason Tidwell, Jacksonville State: Belted 7 home runs in six games and put together a streak of six consecutive games with one or more home runs. He is two games shy of the NCAA Division I record of eight straight games with a home run. He finished the 6-game span with 14 RBI. Tidwell has hit 21 homers on the season with 64 RBI. |
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