College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday (April 22, 2002)
CLEMSON NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — For the fifth straight week, Clemson (34-5) has been ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA Division I baseball poll.
The Tigers posted a 4-1 record last week with three wins over Duke, another over Western Carolina and a loss to South Carolina.
Clemson is hitting .334 as a team with 67 home runs in 39 games. The Tigers are averaging 8.8 runs per game and feature a superb defense with a .973 fielding percentage which ranked fourth in the nation. The pitching staff has a 3.66 ERA with 298 strikeouts and 128 walks.
POLL NOTES: Several other teams are also on a roll. Florida Atlantic saw its 27-game winning streak snapped against Stetson. However, FAU has still won 27 of its last 28 games. Rice, ranked second, has won 23 of its last 27 contests. Cal. St. Fullerton has won 15 of its last 18. South Alabama has won eight straight. And Southern California, which leads the Pac-10 Conference with a 9-3 record, has won 12 of its last 15 contests.
The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season.
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NCAA Div. I Poll (As of April 22, 2002) |
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| Rank School (Record) | Points | Previous |
| 1. Clemson (34-5) | 493 | 1 |
| 2. Rice (35-8) | 490 | 4 |
| 3. Alabama (34-7) | 487 | 2 |
| 4. Stanford (27-10) | 485 | 3 |
| 5. Wake Forest (33-6) | 484 | 5 |
| 6. South Carolina (31-9) | 481 | 7 |
| 7. Mississippi (32-9) | 476 | 9 |
| 8. Texas (34-10) | 472 | 14 |
| 9. North Carolina (28-14) | 468 | 12 |
| 10. Florida St. (38-12) | 465 | 13 |
| 11. Florida (30-12) | 461 | 11 |
| 12. Houston (29-12) | 460 | 10 |
| 13. Georgia Tech. (32-8) | 457 | 6 |
| 14. Wichita St. (27-10) | 454 | 8 |
| 15. Nebraska (26-14) | 450 | 20 |
| 16. Oklahoma St. (29-11) | 444 | 15 |
| 17. Cal. St. Fullerton (27-12) | 443 | 19 |
| 18. Baylor (29-14) | 441 | 17 |
| 19. Texas A&M (31-15) | 439 | 16 |
| 20. Florida Atlantic (34-7) | 436 | 18 |
| 21. Richmond (35-6) | 433 | 23 |
| 22. Long Beach St. (25-12) | 430 | 21 |
| 23. Southern Calif. (24-16) | 428 | — |
| 24. South Alabama (28-11) | 425 | 29 |
| 25. James Madison (33-9) | 424 | 26 |
| 26. Cal. St. Northridge (29-13) | 420 | — |
| 27. San Diego St. (33-13) | 419 | 28 |
| 28. San Jose St. (33-12) | 414 | 30 |
| 29. Louisville (25-10) | 413 | — |
| 30. Arizona St. (25-15) | 410 | 22 |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
OF Brad Bauder, Virginia Tech.: Bauder went 8-for-8 with 4 home runs, 2 singles, a double and a triple in one game against Georgetown as the Hokies registered a 35-4 win. He drove in 14 runs and scored 7 runs, capping his record-breaking performance with a grand slam in the eighth inning. He set new single-game marks for hits, RBIs and total bases (23) and tied records for runs scored and home runs. If that wasn't enough, he hit for the cycle during his outing.
1B Bill Peavey, Southern California: Peavey had a sensational week for the Trojans as he went 9-for-11 with 3 homers, 3 doubles, 4 walks and 10 RBI in a 3-game series against Washington St. In fact, he was so good that in the second game against WSU, he hit a solo home run in the ninth inning that landed on the putting green on a golf course located outside of Bailey-Brayton Field. When a team manager from WSU went to retrieve the ball, golfers showed him that Peavey's ball actually landed in a hole on the putting green.
RHP/C/1B Ben Fritz, Fresno St.: Fritz struck out a career-high 15 batters against Nevada and allowed only three hits in a 1-0, 9-inning win. At the plate, he hit .417 with 3 RBI and 3 runs scored in the series.