College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday
(April 22, 2002)
CLEMSON NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — For the fifth straight week,
Clemson (34-5) has been ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA
Division I baseball poll.
The Tigers posted a 4-1 record last week with three wins
over Duke, another over Western Carolina and a loss to South Carolina.
Clemson is hitting .334 as a team with 67 home runs in
39 games. The Tigers are averaging 8.8 runs per game and feature a superb defense with a
.973 fielding percentage which ranked fourth in the nation. The pitching staff has a 3.66
ERA with 298 strikeouts and 128 walks.
POLL NOTES: Several other teams are
also on a roll. Florida Atlantic saw its 27-game winning streak snapped against Stetson.
However, FAU has still won 27 of its last 28 games. Rice, ranked second, has won 23 of its
last 27 contests. Cal. St. Fullerton has won 15 of its last 18. South Alabama has won
eight straight. And Southern California, which leads the Pac-10 Conference with a 9-3
record, has won 12 of its last 15 contests.
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 22, 2002) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Clemson
(34-5) |
493 |
1 |
| 2. Rice
(35-8) |
490 |
4 |
| 3. Alabama
(34-7) |
487 |
2 |
| 4.
Stanford (27-10) |
485 |
3 |
| 5. Wake
Forest (33-6) |
484 |
5 |
| 6. South
Carolina (31-9) |
481 |
7 |
| 7.
Mississippi (32-9) |
476 |
9 |
| 8. Texas
(34-10) |
472 |
14 |
| 9. North
Carolina (28-14) |
468 |
12 |
| 10. Florida St.
(38-12) |
465 |
13 |
| 11. Florida
(30-12) |
461 |
11 |
| 12. Houston
(29-12) |
460 |
10 |
| 13. Georgia Tech.
(32-8) |
457 |
6 |
| 14. Wichita St.
(27-10) |
454 |
8 |
| 15. Nebraska
(26-14) |
450 |
20 |
| 16. Oklahoma St.
(29-11) |
444 |
15 |
| 17. Cal. St.
Fullerton (27-12) |
443 |
19 |
| 18. Baylor
(29-14) |
441 |
17 |
| 19. Texas A&M
(31-15) |
439 |
16 |
| 20. Florida
Atlantic (34-7) |
436 |
18 |
| 21. Richmond
(35-6) |
433 |
23 |
| 22. Long Beach
St. (25-12) |
430 |
21 |
| 23. Southern
Calif. (24-16) |
428 |
— |
| 24. South Alabama
(28-11) |
425 |
29 |
| 25. James Madison
(33-9) |
424 |
26 |
| 26. Cal. St.
Northridge (29-13) |
420 |
— |
| 27. San Diego St.
(33-13) |
419 |
28 |
| 28. San Jose St.
(33-12) |
414 |
30 |
| 29. Louisville
(25-10) |
413 |
— |
| 30. Arizona St.
(25-15) |
410 |
22 |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | OF Brad Bauder, Virginia Tech.: Bauder
went 8-for-8 with 4 home runs, 2 singles, a double and a triple in one game against
Georgetown as the Hokies registered a 35-4 win. He drove in 14 runs and scored 7 runs,
capping his record-breaking performance with a grand slam in the eighth inning. He set new
single-game marks for hits, RBIs and total bases (23) and tied records for runs scored and
home runs. If that wasn't enough, he hit for the cycle during his outing.
|
| 1B Bill Peavey, Southern
California: Peavey had a sensational week for the Trojans as he went 9-for-11 with 3
homers, 3 doubles, 4 walks and 10 RBI in a 3-game series against Washington St. In fact,
he was so good that in the second game against WSU, he hit a solo home run in the ninth
inning that landed on the putting green on a golf course located outside of Bailey-Brayton
Field. When a team manager from WSU went to retrieve the ball, golfers showed him that
Peavey's ball actually landed in a hole on the putting green.
|
| RHP/C/1B Ben Fritz, Fresno St.: Fritz
struck out a career-high 15 batters against Nevada and allowed only three hits in a 1-0,
9-inning win. At the plate, he hit .417 with 3 RBI and 3 runs scored in the series.
|
| 3B Mark Schramek, Texas-San Antonio: Schramek
cracked 4 home runs and 5 doubles as he went 14-for-18 at the plate in five games last
week. He scored 10 runs and collected 10 RBIs. |
