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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (March 16, 2009) NORTH CAROLINA NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of North Carolina (14-2) has been ranked No. 1 for the first time this season in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA Division I baseball poll. Winners of six straight, the Tar Heels have not lost a series over the last 18 sets, including a run of 15 consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference weekends. North Carolina has not dropped a series since April 2007 (at Florida St.) and are 17-0-1 in weekend sets over this stretch. After hitting just eight home runs over its first 12 games, UNC belted 8 homers last week and added 8 doubles and 2 triples. Carolina swiped 8 bases in Sunday's win over Virginia Tech after stealing just 7 over its first 15 games. The eight steals were the most by the Tar Heels since 2002 and matched the highest single-game total in the Mike Fox era. Georgia, ranked No. 1 in the last poll, dropped two of three at Alabama and slipped to fourth this week. North Carolina is the third No. 1 team this season ranked by Collegiate Baseball. Louisiana St. was ranked No. 1 in the pre-season poll and the first two weeks of the season. POLL NOTES: Several other teams have been red-hot. Virginia is still perfect at 15-0. Coastal Carolina has won 12 straight. Oklahoma has won 10 of its last 11 games. Also, Cal. St. Fullerton just finished a grueling 11-day, 8-game road trip with a 7-1 record which included wins over Texas A&M and Oklahoma St. Over that span, the Titans hit .392 as a team with 17 home runs. Five teams fell out of the poll this week in Florida (0-3 last week), San Jose St. (2-3), East Carolina (3-2), Michigan (0-3) and Kentucky (3-2). New teams in the poll include Clemson (11-4), Arkansas (12-3), Alabama (11-5), Mississippi St. (12-5), and Kansas St. (15-3, of to the best start since 2006 when the team started 17-1). 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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