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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: Monday (April 26, 2010)

TEXAS NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER POLL

TUCSON, Ariz. — Texas bumped Arizona St. from the No. 1 spot in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper NCAA Division I baseball poll.

The Longhorns (34-7) have won 16 straight games, their longest winning streak since 2005, and were ranked No. 1 in the pre-season Collegiate Baseball poll. Texas leads the Big 12 Conference with a 16-2 mark.

The Sun Devils (33-5) were 2-2 last week as ASU lost at home to Arizona before winning two of three at home against Washington. Arizona St., still first in the Pac-10 Conference with an 11-4 record, had been ranked No. 1 for the previous six polls.

Poll Notes: Several teams have been red hot lately, including Connecticut (21 in a row, longest winning streak in school history), Coastal Carolina (17), Portland (7), and Cal. St. Fullerton (6). Several key top 30 series took place last weekend. Mississippi swept a 3-game series against Louisiana St. Virginia Tech. knocked off Georgia Tech. two of three, Florida beat Arkansas two of three, UCLA beat Arizona two of three, Florida St. beat Miami, Fla. two of three, Stanford swept a 3-game series from California, Connecticut swept a 3-game series against Rutgers.

Five teams fell out of the top 30 this week in Rutgers (0-3 last week), Oregon St. (1-2), Clemson (2-2), Vanderbilt (3-2), and Northwestern St. (1-4). New to the top 30 is Virginia Tech, Portland (27-9, most wins since 1991, leaders of the West Coast Conference at 11-1), Rice, U.C. Irvine and Texas St.

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)

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's

NCAA Div. I Poll (As of April 26, 2010)

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Rank School (Record) Points Previous
  1. Texas (34-7) 493   2
  2. Arizona St. (33-5) 491   1
  3. South Carolina (32-8) 488   5
  4. Coastal Carolina (36-5) 485   7
  5. Virginia (34-9) 483 10
  6. Georgia Tech. (34-7) 482   3
  7. Florida (28-11) 480 12
  8. Arkansas (33-8) 479   4
  9. UCLA (29-7) 478   8
10. Florida St. (31-10) 477 11
11. Miami, Fla. (29-11) 476   9
12. Cal. St. Fullerton (24-13) 474 16
13. Connecticut (33-7) 472 19
14. Louisville (32-7) 470 13
15. Texas Christian (30-8) 469 14
16. Mississippi (28-13) 467 27
17. Louisiana St. (32-9) 466   6
18. Stanford (21-13) 464 22
19. Oklahoma (29-11) 460 20
20. California (23-14) 457 15
21. Arizona (28-11) 456 18
22. Kansas St. (27-10) 453 17
23. Oregon (27-13) 450 23
24. Pittsburgh (30-10) 447 24
25. Virginia Tech. (28-14) 445
26. Portland (27-9) 442
27. Auburn (27-14) 439 29
28. Rice (26-16) 436
29. U.C. Irvine (24-13) 434
30. Texas St. (24-14) 430

 

"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

RHP Matt Harvey, North Carolina: Harvey struck out a career-high 15 Clemson batters during a 5-3 win. He struck out the side three times, including six punch-outs in a row in the sixth and seventh innings.

LHP Chris Sale, Florida Gulf Coast: Sale set a new school record with 15 strikeouts in a complete game 1-hitter as he led the Eagles past Belmont, 1-0. He gave up only one walk.

RHP Kendall Lewis, Eastern Michigan: Lewis pitched an 11-inning complete game, 1-0 win over Western Michigan. He threw 138 pitches and gave up three hits, one walk and struck out a career-high 10 batters.

1B Jake Magner, North Dakota: Magner had a remarkable doubleheader against New York Tech. as he belted 6 home runs and knocked in 13 runs, going 7-for-10 at the plate with 7 runs scored over those two games. For the 3-game series against NYIT, Magner hit .556 (10-for-18), scored 10 runs, hit 6 homers and drove in 14 runs.

1B Jordan Ribera, Fresno St.: Ribera hit 5 home runs with 9 RBIs over four games last week as he scored 7 runs and went 10-for-16 at the plate (.625). He also had 2 doubles and accounted for 27 total bases.

RHP Justin Topa, Long Island: Topa took a perfect game into the fifth inning en route to throwing a complete game 1-hitter during in a 2-0 win over Monmouth. Topa struck out a season-high 12 batters.

RHP Christian Bergman, U.C. Irvine: Bergman had a near-perfect performance against U.C. Davis, facing the minimum in a 1-hit complete game shutout, 13-0. After giving up a leadoff hit in the bottom of the first to Daniel Cepin, Bergman went on to retire the next 26 batters he faced (Cepin would be caught stealing). Bergman used just 89 pitches in the 9-inning effort. He struck out six.

 

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