College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday
(March 29, 1999)
FLORIDA ST. NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Florida St. University has been
ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's latest NCAA Division I baseball
poll. The Seminoles swept North Carolina in a 3-game series over the past weekend and have
won 15 straight in rolling to a 29-3 overall record (9-0 Atlantic Coast Conference mark).
Florida St. has been ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball poll six of the last
seven weeks. Florida St. is hitting .330 as a team and averaging nine runs per contest.
The pitching staff has a 2.67 ERA with a strikeout to walk ratio of nearly 3:1 (327
strikeouts and 120 walks).
POLL NOTES: Several other teams have been
red-hot. The longest winning streak of top 30 teams is Florida Atlantic with 25 straight,
a school record. The last time FAU lost was a 3-1 setback at Miami, Fla. on Feb. 17. It
was FAU's only game this season against a ranked opponent. The NCAA Div. I record for
consecutive wins is 34 set by Texas in 1977. Three other hot teams include Cal. St.
Fullerton (15 wins in a row), Oral Roberts (14 straight victories), and Nebraska (11
consecutive wins). The Cornhuskers, winners of 16 of their last 17, swept highly regarded
Texas three straight over the past weekend in Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska sits on top of the
Big 12 Conference with an 8-1 record.
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 March 29, 1999) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Florida
St. (29-3) |
493 |
1 |
| 2. Auburn
(27-4) |
477 |
2 |
| 3.
Stanford (20-8) |
472 |
4 |
| 4.
Pepperdine (27-3) |
469 |
5 |
| 5. Cal.
St. Fullerton (25-5) |
465 |
8 |
| 6. Miami,
Fla. (22-6) |
464 |
6 |
| 7. Georgia
Tech. (23-6) |
461 |
10 |
| 8. North
Carolina (22-5) |
459 |
3 |
| 9. Rice
(28-7) |
458 |
7 |
| 10. Florida
(21-8) |
457 |
11 |
| 11. Mississippi
St. (22-4) |
455 |
13 |
| 12. Wichita St.
(21-6) |
454 |
17 |
| 13. Baylor (24-6) |
452 |
20 |
| 14. Florida
Atlantic (31-1) |
450 |
18 |
| 15. Alabama
(22-7) |
448 |
12 |
| 16. Texas (22-11) |
447 |
9 |
| 17. Texas A&M
(25-7) |
443 |
16 |
| 18. Arizona St.
(27-11) |
440 |
19 |
| 19. Nebraska
(20-6) |
437 |
30 |
| 20. Oral Roberts
(22-4) |
435 |
23 |
| 21. Texas Tech.
(24-8) |
433 |
14 |
| 22. Louisiana St.
(20-9) |
432 |
15 |
| 23. Wake Forest
(19-6) |
429 |
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| 24. East Carolina
(24-5) |
425 |
— |
| 25. Southern
Calif. (16-16) |
421 |
22 |
| 26. South
Carolina (21-7) |
418 |
— |
| 27. Va.
Commonwealth (20-6) |
412 |
25 |
| 28. North
Carolina St. (23-7) |
409 |
26 |
| 29. Oklahoma St.
(19-8) |
408 |
27 |
| 30. Minnesota
(16-6) |
402 |
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"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | LHP Chuck Crowder, Georgia Tech.: Crowder
won two games without allowing a run as he struck out 20 batters in 16 innings during the
past week. He pitched a 9-inning, 2-0 shutout against Western Carolina as he fanned a
career-high 13 with only two walks. He followed that up five days later by throwing seven
shutout innings, allowing just three hits and two walks with seven strikeouts, against
Maryland in a 13-0 win.
|
| LHP Phil Devey, Southwestern
Louisiana: Devey struck out a career-high 16 batters in 8 2/3 innings of work against
Western Kentucky in a 5-4 win. He did not allow a runner to reach second base until the
ninth inning and struck out five WKU batters at least twice in the game. He was so
dominant that no outfielder recorded a putout in the contest. His strikeout total was one
short of the Sun Belt Conference record.
|
| LHP Luke Martin, Embry-Riddle: Martin
pitched the first perfect game in school history against Mt. Vernon Nazarene in a
7-inning, 4-0 win. He struck out 9 batters, had 11 ground balls and one fly out. He fell
behind in the count only twice and went full count to just one batter.
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