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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (March 30, 2009) GEORGIA NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Georgia (22-3) has been ranked No. 1 for the third time this season and second week in a row in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA Division I baseball poll. The Bulldogs swept a 3-game series at Tennessee and have now won seven consecutive Southeastern Conference games. Georgia has won eight of its last nine games overall. The Bulldogs are hitting .329 as a team with 47 homers, 62 doubles and 36/45 stolen bases in 25 games. The pitching staff has a 3.51 ERA with 238 strikeouts and 85 walks. POLL NOTES: Several other teams have been red-hot. Cal. St. Fullerton has won 17 of its last 19 games and remains second. Georgia Tech. won two of three at Miami, Fla. Arkansas is off to a superb 19-5 record and 8-1 SEC mark as the Razorbacks moved from ninth to fourth this week. U.C. Irvine swept a 3-game series at home against Cal Poly. Oklahoma St. has won four straight, and New Mexico St. five in a row. Five teams fell out of the top 30 this week in Coastal Carolina (1-3 last week), Alabama (1-3), Pepperdine (0-5), U.C. Santa Barbara (1-3) and College of Charleston (2-2). New teams in the poll this week include Texas A&M (5 wins in a row), Oregon St. (7 wins in last 8 games), San Diego St. (won two of three at Texas Christian), East Carolina (won 10 of last 11) and San Diego (swept a 3-game series against Pepperdine and have won 10 of its last 11). 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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