College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday (June
3, 2002)
FLORIDA ST. NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — For the third consecutive week,
Florida St. (59-12) has been ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA
Division I baseball poll.
The Seminoles, fresh from winning its regional with
three consecutive victories, have now won 25 straight games.
The top 10 was relatively unchanged. But the second ten
saw dramatic movement because of four big upsets during regional action over the past
weekend. Richmond knocked off highly regarded Wake Forest to win the Winston-Salem
Regional while defending national champion Miami, Fla. beat heavily favored Florida to
capture the Gainesville Regional.
Miami had a modest 30-26 overall record entering
regional competition but defeated the Gators twice for the regional title. Another upset
took place when Florida Atlantic went into Alabama and knocked off the heavily favored
Crimson Tide in the Tuscaloosa Regional.
One final upset took place in the Wichita Regional as
Arkansas rolled through with three straight wins. Highly regarded Wichita St. finished
third out of four teams with a 1-2 record while Oral Roberts knocked off the Shockers two
times in the regional.
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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Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's |
NCAA Div. I Poll (As of June 3, 2002) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Florida
St. (59-12) |
497 |
1 |
| 2. Rice
(50-12) |
491 |
2 |
| 3. Texas
(51-14) |
488 |
3 |
| 4. South
Carolina (51-15) |
484 |
5 |
| 5. Clemson
(50-14) |
482 |
7 |
| 6. Houston
(47-15) |
480 |
8 |
| 7. Georgia
Tech. (49-14) |
477 |
9 |
| 8.
Stanford (43-16) |
473 |
10 |
| 9.
Louisiana St. (44-20) |
470 |
11 |
| 10. Nebraska
(45-18) |
467 |
12 |
| 11. Notre Dame
(47-15) |
460 |
17 |
| 12. Southern
California (36-22) |
455 |
18 |
| 13. Richmond
(52-11) |
452 |
23 |
| 14. Wake Forest
(47-13-1) |
450 |
4 |
| 15. Florida
Atlantic (46-19) |
449 |
— |
| 16. Alabama
(51-15) |
447 |
6 |
| 17. Miami, Fla.
(33-27) |
444 |
— |
| 18. Arkansas
(34-26) |
440 |
— |
| 19. North
Carolina (43-21) |
438 |
14 |
| 20. Florida
(46-19) |
435 |
15 |
| 21. Oral Roberts
(48-19) |
432 |
— |
| 22. Wichita St.
(47-17) |
430 |
13 |
| 23. Cal. St.
Northridge (41-17) |
429 |
16 |
| 24. Texas Tech.
(42-20) |
425 |
19 |
| 25. South Alabama
(42-19) |
422 |
20 |
| 26. Arizona St.
(37-21) |
420 |
21 |
| 27. Long Beach
St. (39-21) |
418 |
24 |
| 28. Cal. St.
Fullerton (37-22) |
416 |
25 |
| 29. San Jose St.
(45-17) |
413 |
22 |
| 30.
Louisiana-Lafayette (39-23) |
409 |
— |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | 1B Yaron Peters, South Carolina: Peters
hit six home runs over four games with 8 RBI as he was named MVP of the Columbia Regional.
Peters, who went 10-for-16 at the plate, had 28 total bases and a slugging percentage of
1.750. Peters is batting .392 on the year with 27 home runs and 89 RBI.
|
| 2B Steve Sollmann, Notre Dame: Sollmann
was named MVP of the South Bend Regional. He went 13-for-16 at the plate, scored 10 runs,
drove in eight and belted one home run with two triples in three games. Sollmann did not
commit an error at second base. In a 25-1 win over South Alabama, Sollman became the first
player ever to score six runs in an NCAA tournament game as he went 6-for-7 at the plate.
He knocked in 7 runs and had 13 total bases in the contest.
|
| RHP Grant Johnson, Notre Dame: Johnson hurled a
1-hit masterpiece in a 25-1 win over South Alabama. He faced only 30 batters (three over
the minimum) and struck out 8 to become the first Irish pitcher to throw a 9-inning
one-hitter since 1993. In the last 21 years of NCAA Division I tournament baseball, only
one no-hitter and two other one-hitters have been thrown. |
