Collegiate Baseball Poll – April 18

The Cavaliers, winners of 17 of their last 18 and five in a row, swept a 3-game series against Duke over the past weekend. Virginia leads the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 16-2 record and has captured six straight ACC series. The Cavaliers have a 2.35 team ERA, and the pitching staff has struck out 411 batters with 81 walks — a better than 4:1 strikeout to walk ratio. On defense, Virginia has a superb .982 fielding percentage with only 26 errors over 39 games while the offense is averaging 7.6 runs per game.

Poll Notes: Several other teams have been hot. Oregon St., which swept a 3-game series over the weekend at Stanford, has won nine straight and leads the Pac-10 Conference with an 8-1 record. Stetson has won nine in a row, Cal. St. Fullerton six consecutive and Creighton six in a row. In key series over the past weekend, South Carolina beat Vanderbilt two of three, UCLA took two of three from Arizona, and Oklahoma St. beat Oklahoma two of three. Three teams fell out of the top 30 in Stanford (1-3 last week), Troy (1-3) and Georgia (1-3). New to the poll this week is U.C. Irvine (23-9 overall), Creighton (26-7) and Coastal Carolina (24-12).

The Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season.