College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday
(March 15, 1999)
FLORIDA ST. NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Florida St. University has been
ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's latest NCAA Division I baseball
poll. The Seminoles swept Virginia in a 3-game series over the past weekend and have won
five straight in rolling to a 19-3 overall record (3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference mark).
Florida St. has been ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate
Baseball poll four of the last five weeks. Last week's No. 1 team, Rice, stumbled with
a 2-2 record with a 5-1 loss to Lamar, 5-4 loss to San Diego St. in 12 innings before
winning the final two games against the Aztecs, 9-7 and 11-3. Florida St. is hitting .330
as a team and averaging nine runs per contest. The pitching staff has a 2.53 ERA with a
strikeout to walk ratio of nearly 3:1 (226 strikeouts and 78 walks).
POLL NOTES: Several teams have been red-hot. The
longest winning streak of top 30 teams is Florida Atlantic with 14 straight. Texas Tech
has won 13 of its last 14 while Cal. St. Fullerton has won 7 straight. North Carolina
continues to roll with a 17-1 overall record. Two teams fell out of the poll this week in
Illinois (2-2 last week) and Hawaii (0-3).
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)
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's |
NCAA Div. I Poll (As of March 15, 1999) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Florida
St. (19-3) |
482 |
2 |
| 2. Auburn
(22-3) |
477 |
3 |
| 3.
Stanford (15-6) |
472 |
4 |
| 4. Miami,
Fla. (17-5) |
469 |
8 |
| 5. North
Carolina (17-1) |
467 |
12 |
| 6.
Pepperdine (20-2) |
463 |
13 |
| 7. Rice
(22-5) |
461 |
1 |
| 8.
Louisiana St. (15-4) |
459 |
9 |
| 9. Texas
(18-7) |
458 |
10 |
| 10. Georgia Tech.
(16-5) |
456 |
11 |
| 11. Texas A&M
(16-5) |
453 |
6 |
| 12. Florida
(12-7) |
450 |
5 |
| 13. Fla.
International (22-2) |
448 |
7 |
| 14. Cal. St.
Fullerton (17-5) |
447 |
15 |
| 15. Alabama
(15-5) |
445 |
14 |
| 16. Mississippi
St. (16-2) |
442 |
18 |
| 17. Wichita St.
(11-5) |
440 |
16 |
| 18. Texas Tech.
(19-5) |
439 |
21 |
| 19. North
Carolina St. (18-3) |
437 |
19 |
| 20. Arizona St.
(20-9) |
435 |
17 |
| 21. Baylor (16-5) |
432 |
22 |
| 22. Long Beach
St. (11-7) |
429 |
20 |
| 23. Florida
Atlantic (20-1) |
426 |
24 |
| 24. Louisville
(15-3) |
425 |
— |
| 25. South
Carolina (15-5) |
423 |
23 |
| 26. Washington
(11-4) |
421 |
27 |
| 27. Oklahoma St.
(12-6) |
419 |
29 |
| 28. Nevada (16-7) |
416 |
26 |
| 29. Tulane (15-5) |
410 |
30 |
| 30. Arizona
(18-9) |
407 |
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"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | RHP Mike MacDougal, Wake Forest: MacDougal
tossed the first no-hitter in 60 years for Wake Forest to lead the Demon Deacons to a 5-0
win over Duke. He was in total command as he allowed only two batters to reach base, both
via walks. He also recorded five strikeouts. The no-hitter was the first since opening day
of the 1939 season when three Wake Forest pitchers combined to no-hit Springfield College.
MacDougal's effort was only the second individual no-hitter in Demon Deacon history.
|
| C/DH Russ Jacobson, Miami (Fla.): Jacobson
went 6-for-6 with 4 home runs, one double, 6 RBI and 7 runs scored and one walk over a
3-game span last week. With 19 total bases, he posted a slugging percentage of 3.167. He
tied a single-game school record for home runs (3), total bases (13) and runs scored (5),
while becoming the first player in school history to homer in four consecutive at bats.
|
| RHP Adam Johnson, Cal. St.
Fullerton: Johnson struck out a career-high 15 New Mexico St. batters as the Titans
won, 12-4. He struck out the first five batters he faced on his way to an 8-inning, 8-hit
performance. He walked only one.
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