College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday
(April 21, 2003)
CAL. ST. FULLERTON NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Cal. St. Fullerton (34-8) was named
the top team in the nation in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA Division I
baseball poll.
The Titans, which have won six in a row and 10 of their
last 11 games, unseated Rice which had been ranked No. 1 the prior four polls. The Owls
had won 30 straight games only two weeks ago and were sitting at 33-1 on the season. But
since that time, Rice has only posted a 4-5 record. Last week Rice was 2-3 and slipped
from No. 1 to fifth with a 37-6 overall record.
Poll Notes: Four teams fell out of
the poll this week in Wake Forest (2-3), South Alabama (2-2), Lamar (2-2) and Wichita St.
(2-3). New teams in the poll include North Carolina (31-11) which is currently on a 9-game
winning streak, Pepperdine (26-15, 7-game winning streak), Texas Christian (26-15, 6-game
winning streak) and Nevada-Las Vegas (32-11).
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 April 21, 2003) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Cal.
St. Fullerton (34-8) |
494 |
3 |
| 2. Florida
St. (36-6-1) |
493 |
2 |
| 3.
Stanford (26-11) |
490 |
4 |
| 4. Georgia
Tech. (32-7) |
487 |
5 |
| 5. Rice
(37-6) |
485 |
1 |
| 6. North
Carolina St. (33-9) |
482 |
8 |
| 7. Arizona
St. (39-9) |
479 |
6 |
| 8.
Louisiana St. (26-13-1) |
473 |
7 |
| 9. Long
Beach St. (26-12) |
470 |
12 |
| 10. Nebraska
(29-10) |
467 |
16 |
| 11. Texas (31-13) |
465 |
10 |
| 12. Auburn
(31-10) |
462 |
9 |
| 13. Mississippi
St. (28-9-1) |
460 |
11 |
| 14. Texas A&M
(32-12) |
459 |
18 |
| 15. Richmond
(31-7) |
456 |
19 |
| 16. Notre Dame
(29-8) |
455 |
13 |
| 17. Miami, Fla.
(28-9-1) |
453 |
14 |
| 18. Florida
Atlantic (34-10) |
451 |
17 |
| 19. Missouri
(27-12) |
449 |
23 |
| 20. Oklahoma St.
(26-13) |
443 |
21 |
| 21. Arkansas
(30-8) |
442 |
26 |
| 22. Southern
Miss. (30-10) |
440 |
27 |
| 23. Clemson
(27-12) |
438 |
15 |
| 24. Baylor
(27-16) |
435 |
20 |
| 25. North
Carolina (31-11) |
433 |
— |
| 26. Pepperdine
(26-15) |
430 |
— |
| 27. Minnesota
(23-13) |
429 |
24 |
| 28. Arizona
(28-14) |
427 |
25 |
| 29. Texas
Christian (26-15) |
425 |
— |
| 30. Nevada-Las
Vegas (32-11) |
423 |
— |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | OF Jesse Schmidt, Sacramento St.: Schmidt
increased his hitting streak to 23 games after going 12-for-18 last week with 5 home runs,
10 runs scored and 8 RBI.
|
| 2B Taylor Eckel, Toledo: Eckel
cracked 5 home runs as he went 19-for-26 over six games last week with 12 runs scored and
14 RBIs. He also added two stolen bases and had a 1.423 slugging percentage.
|
| RHP Brad Sullivan, Houston: Sullivan
tied a school single-game record with 16 strikeouts to lead the Cougars to an 8-2 win over
St. Louis. He struck out the side four times. It marked the 10th double-digit strikeout
performance of his career, another UH record.
|
| LHP Scott Lewis, Ohio St.: Lewis struck out 16
batters against Indiana in a 9-3 win over the Hoosiers. The talented southpaw one week
earlier fanned 20 batters in a 6-1 complete game victory over Iowa. So in his last two
starts which span over 17 innings, Lewis has struck out 36 batters. |
