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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (April 17, 2006) NORTH CAROLINA NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — North Carolina (31-7) has been ranked No. 1 for the first time this season in Collegiate Baseball newspaper’s poll of NCAA Division I baseball. The Tar Heels, winners of five straight games and eight of their last nine, swept a 3-game series against Virginia Tech. over the past weekend and are first in the Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division with a 12-6 record. North Carolina is off to its best start since the 1990 team opened with the same 31-7 record en route to a school-record 51 wins and the program’s last ACC title. Cal. St. Fullerton, ranked No. 1 last week, slipped to second after losing one of three games to U.C. Davis. The Titans still have won 19 of their last 22 games. Poll Notes: Several teams have been red-hot. Notre Dame has won 17 in a row. The Irish also have won 11 consecutive Big East Conference games, tying the second longest win streak in 22 seasons of Big East baseball. Rice has strung together 14 consecutive victories and leads Conference USA with a glistening 11-1 record. Oregon St. made a substantial move in this week’s poll after blanking Stanford twice in back-to-back games and only allowing a single run in the final game during a 3-game sweep of the Cardinal. It marked the first time Stanford had been shut out in back-to-back games since falling to Fresno St. (4-0) and Santa Clara (13-0) in 1975. Five teams fell out of the poll in Fresno St. (0-3 last week), Ohio St. (1-4), Baylor (0-4), Creighton (1-3), and Georgia (1-3). 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)
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