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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (April 26, 2004) TEXAS NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Texas is No. 1 for the third straight week in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA Division I baseball poll. The Longhorns (41-6) have won 14 of their last 16 games and lead the Big 12 Conference with a 13-4 record. Pitching has been superb all season long for Texas with a team ERA of 2.34 and nine shutouts in 47 games. The pitching staff has struck out 408 batters and walked 149. On offense, the Longhorns have stolen 96 bases in 129 attempts while limiting their opposition to only 35 stolen bases. Poll Notes: Several teams are red-hot. East Carolina continues to surge as the Pirates jumped from 16 to 9 in this week's poll. East Carolina (35-6) has won 16 straight games, a school a record, and sits in first place in Conference USA with a 15-3 record. Another team that has been on a roll is Clemson. The Tigers started the season with a 9-10 record. Since that time, Clemson has won 18 of its last 22. Over the past weekend, the Tigers swept North Carolina St. three straight and are now in second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference with an 11-4 record. Arkansas was 4-0 last week and leads the Southeastern Conference with a 13-5 conference mark. Other notable series last weekend saw Georgia Tech. sweep Florida St. three straight in Tallahassee, Fla. It marked the first time the Seminoles had been swept at home in a 3-game ACC series since joining the league in 1992 — a span of 51 series. Georgia swept a 3-game series at home against Mississippi. The Rebels lost five straight games last week and dropped from 7 to 16. Tulane swept a 3-game series at home against Southern Mississippi. Four teams fell out of the poll this week in Southern Mississippi (1-3), North Carolina St. (0-4), Rutgers (1-2) and Cal. St. Fullerton (2-2). 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)
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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