St. John's News
Baseball Ranked No. 29 In Final Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll
July 03, 2008
After a record-setting 2008 season, the St. John's baseball team
is ranked No. 29 in the final Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
Division I baseball poll of the year. Fresno St., winners of the
College World Series, earned the top spot in the poll. View the
Collegiate Baseball poll, the oldest college baseball poll in the
country here.
St. John's (42-16, 20-7) set a new school record for wins in a
season and tied the school record for conference wins. The Red
Storm earned its second-straight BIG EAST regular season title and
also reached the 40-win plateau for a school record fourth straight
season. A school record-tying eight players earned All-BIG EAST
honors and the team reached the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time
in the past five years. In the course of the season St. John's also
peaked at No. 18 in the Baseball America poll (May 12), its highest
ranking in the poll since May of 1981.
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