Clemson Baseball Moves Up In Polls

March 19, 2001

Clemson, SC – The Clemson baseball team moved up from 14th to 11th in the Baseball Weekly/ESPN coaches poll that was released Monday. The Tigers remained 10th in the Collegiate Baseball poll and 14th in the Baseball America poll.

Clemson split two games with Georgia Southern last week and then swept three games at Maryland over the weekend to open ACC play 3-0.

The Tigers continue its eight-game road trip Tuesday and Wednesday with a pair of 7:00 PM games at Old Dominion before closing out the 10-day trip with three games at Wake Forest on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Old Dominion is not ranked in this week’s polls, but the Demon Deacons are ranked as high as 20th (by Baseball America and Baseball Weekly/ESPN. Wake Forest is ranked 24th by Collegiate Baseball.