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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (March 19, 2007) FLORIDA STATE NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — Florida State University (23-0) has been ranked No. 1 for the first time this season in Collegiate Baseball newspaper’s NCAA Division I baseball poll. The Seminoles, off to their greatest start in school history, swept a 3-game Atlantic Coast Conference series over the past weekend against Wake Forest and are 3-0 in ACC action. Florida St. is hitting .390 as a team after 23 games and are averaging 11.3 runs per game. The Seminoles have hit 75 doubles, 10 triples and 10 homers on the season. The discipline of the hitters has been remarkable with 124 walks. The pitching staff has been just as impressive with a 2.63 ERA. Hurlers have combined to fan 199 batters with 74 walks. Poll Notes: Vanderbilt (21-1), ranked No. 1 for the past four weeks, slipped to second after suffering its first loss of the season to Mississippi. However, the Commodores beat Ole Miss two of three games in the Southeastern Conference series. The largest fall in the poll this week was Auburn which posted a 1-4 record. The Tigers, which slipped from 10th to 27th this week, split two games with Virginia Military Institute and then lost three straight at Georgia to open SEC action with an 0-3 record. Teams that have been hot lately include Oregon St. (9 wins in a row), Coastal Carolina (7 straight) as well as Clemson, Rice, and Arizona St. (6 consecutive victories). Southern Mississippi fell out of the poll this week with losses to Southeastern Louisiana and South Alabama while San Diego moved back in the poll at No. 24 with wins in seven of its last eight games. 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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