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ECU Still Perched in All Three Baseball
Polls
Bonesville.net
East Carolina stumbled a bit last week but still got enough respect
from the voters to maintain a place in all three of the major weekly
collegiate baseball rankings.
The Pirates, 14-3-1 after a week in which they had one win,
two losses and a tie, slipped from 18th to 21st in the
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll, from
18th to 20th in the
BaseballAmerica Rankings and from 22nd to
25th in the
USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll.
ECU suffered a
9-6 home loss to Old Dominion last Tuesday
and picked up just one victory in three contests during a weekend road
series at Conference USA foe Cincinnati. The Pirates
fell to UC 8-5 on Friday, rebounded to
shut out the Bearcats 7-0 on Saturday, then
battled to a
5-5 tie with the 'Cats on Sunday
in a game that was stopped after 10 innings in accordance with a mutual
agreement between the teams not to start a new inning after 4 PM because of
travel schedules.
Conference USA member Houston moved up in all three
sets of rankings. The Cougars (15-5) advanced to No. 9 (from 12th) in the Collegiate Baseball
poll, to 7th (from 8th) in the BaseballAmerica rankings and to No 12 (from
13th) in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll. Tulane (13-8), another
league member, tumbled out of all three polls after going 2-2 during the
week, including a weekend series in which the Green Wave (13-8) dropped two
out of three games to conference foe Charlotte.
 Other Carolinas teams in the rankings are
Clemson (14-1 record; 2nd, 2nd
and 2nd in the Collegiate Baseball News, BaseballAmerica and USA Today/ESPN
poll, respectively), South Carolina (18-3; 4th, 5th and 5th) and Wake Forest (16-2;
8th, 11th and
8th).
The new rankings were released Monday and were based on
results of games through Sunday, March 17.
This week, ECU takes a short road
trip for a Wednesday game at Old Dominion and hosts a three-game C-USA
series against Texas Christian on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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