Baseball Hogs Ranked 10th Nationally

Somebody finally alerted the baseball SIDs...uh...I mean coaches...around the country that 13-1 Arkansas might be pretty good. The Hogs moved up four spots in this week's USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll.

And once again, the SEC is by far the most impressive league with Tennessee, LSU, South Carolina and Arkansas all ranked among the nation's top 10. Former #1 Florida as well as Ole Miss and Mississippi State are also ranked among the top 25.

Some other baseball notes:

* Junior first baseman Danny Hamblin tore up Hawaii’s Les Murakami Stadium during the First Hawaii Title Rainbow Baseball Tournament, winning MVP honors. Hamblin finished the tournament with a .450 batting average, three doubles, three home runs, four runs scored, 12 RBI, a 1.050 slugging percentage and a .478 on-base percentage.

* Sophomore pitcher Nick Schmidt is holding opponents to a .062 batting average this season, allowing just five hits over four games. He has a 0.69 ERA in 29 innings of work. Schmidt has not allowed an extra-base hit this season and has not surrendered a hit to a left-handed hitter this season. (Good lord...that's just comically insane.)

* Arkansas is 36-2 in non-conference action over the past two seasons.