College Baseball
Poll -
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
Monday (Feb. 23, 2004)
LSU NO. 1 IN
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER
(www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Louisiana State University is
ranked No. 1 in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll of NCAA
Division I baseball.
The Tigers (6-1) replaced Texas as the top
team in the land this week after the Longhorns dropped two of three at Stanford.
LSU, winners of four in a row, was impressive in its 3-game sweep of
Jacksonville State as the Tigers outscored the Gamecocks, 39-4. LSU batted .393
in the weekend series as team while the pitching staff posted a 1.08 ERA.
This is the third consecutive poll a new No. 1
team has been named. Miami (Fla.) and Rice were ranked at the top in the
Collegiate Baseball pre-season poll and first regular-season poll. Last week
Texas jumped to the top slot after rolling to a 9-0 record and beating in-state
rival Rice.
Poll Notes:
Several teams have been red-hot. Florida Atlantic
has won 10 straight to kick off the season while Texas A&M (7-0), Georgia Tech.
(6-0), and South Carolina (6-0) are all undefeated as well. South Carolina has
been impressive on offense. The Gamecocks are hitting .409 as a team after six
games and have pounded out 96 hits with 19 home runs and scored 83 runs. Three
teams fell out of the poll this week in Baylor (3-4), Southern California (2-4)
and Winthrop (4-1).
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
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NCAA Div. I Poll (As of Feb. 23, 2004) |
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Rank School (Record) |
Points |
Previous |
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1. Louisiana St. (6-1) |
495 |
4 |
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2. Stanford (10-2) |
494 |
6 |
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3. Georgia Tech. (6-0) |
492 |
5 |
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4. Texas (11-2) |
490 |
1 |
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5. Rice (5-2) |
489 |
2 |
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6. South Carolina (6-0) |
487 |
8 |
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7. Arizona St. (8-2) |
486 |
7 |
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8. Miami, Fla. (4-2) |
484 |
3 |
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9. Wichita St. (0-0) |
475 |
9 |
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10. Notre Dame (2-0) |
474 |
10 |
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11. Long Beach St. (7-2) |
472 |
12 |
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12. Florida Atlantic (10-0) |
469 |
16 |
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13. Tulane (5-1) |
467 |
13 |
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14. Texas A&M (7-0) |
463 |
30 |
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15. Auburn (5-1) |
459 |
18 |
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16. Nebraska (3-0) |
456 |
21 |
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17. Clemson (0-0) |
450 |
17 |
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18. North Carolina (3-0) |
448 |
22 |
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19. Arizona (5-3-1) |
446 |
14 |
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20. Cal. St. Fullerton (6-6) |
445 |
15 |
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21. Florida (6-3) |
444 |
18 |
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22. Washington (5-1) |
442 |
23 |
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23. Florida St. (7-3) |
440 |
24 |
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24. Lamar (6-2) |
438 |
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25. Minnesota (0-0) |
432 |
25 |
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26. Mississippi (3-0) |
429 |
26 |
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27. North Carolina St. (4-0) |
425 |
28 |
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28. Oklahoma (5-1) |
422 |
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29. Mississippi St. (0-0) |
408 |
29 |
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30. U.C. Irvine (5-2-1) |
405 |
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"LOUISVILLE
SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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P Chris Hill, Point Loma
Nazarene: Hill threw a nine-inning
no-hitter against British Columbia in a 5-1 win. He fanned eight batters. Hill
had never pitched a no-hitter at any time in his baseball career. |
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C Adam Moore, Northeast
Texas C.C. (Mount Pleasant, Tex.):
Moore had an unbelievable weekend of baseball as he hit 5 home runs, drove in
17 runs, scored 6 times and hit .875 (7-for-8) over three games. He also
walked 4 times. Two of the games were against Temple J.C. with one contest
against Rose State C.C. |
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P Jason Urquidez, Arizona
State: Urquidez threw a
complete-game 3-hitter as the Sun Devils beat defending national champion
Rice, 3-1 in Houston. He struck out seven and walked two to improve to 3-0 on
the season. Also noteworthy was that Urquidez gave Rice starting pitcher Jeff
Niemann his first loss in over a year, ending a streak of 18 consecutive
winning decisions. The 6-foot-9, 270-pound Niemann gave up four hits and
walked three in seven innings of work. |
| P John Williams, Middle Tennessee St.:
Williams and relief pitcher Chase Swing combined to throw just the third
no-hitter in Middle Tennessee St. history in a 4-0 win over Indiana-Purdue
Fort Wayne. Williams struck out 12 and walked one in six innings. He was so
dominant that he fanned 10 of the first 13 hitters in the game and a dozen of
the 19 batters he faced before leaving the game with 90 pitches after six
innings. Swing then got the final nine outs for his first save of the year.
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