Auburn jumps four spots in the latest USA TODAY Baseball Coaches Poll
Auburn jumps four spots in the latest USA TODAY Baseball Coaches Poll A series win over Kentucky lifts Auburn in the rankings.
The Auburn Tigers moved up four sports in the latest USA TODAY Baseball Coaches Poll on Monday.
Auburn jumped from No. 16 to No. 12 after a week that saw the Tigers go 3-1. During the week on Tuesday, they defeated Alabama State 13-9, the 300th for head coach Butch Thompson. Over the weekend, Auburn traveled to Kentucky, where they took two out of three games in Lexington to move to 4-2 in SEC play. The Tigers had more fans than accustomed on the road with the men's basketball team also playing in Kentucky for the first two rounds of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
On Tuesday night at home against the Hornets, Auburn trailed 6-5 in the fourth inning before Lucas Steele hit a grand slam to give them a 9-6 lead. Chris Rembert, Chase Fralick, and Cooper McMurray scored on the home run. In the fifth, Eric Snow added to the score with a solo home run to give the Tigers a 10-6 lead. Both teams would score three more runs to make the final 13-9.
In games one and two against Kentucky the Tigers picked up dramatic 8-7 victories. The first game, Auburn was down 7-6 as the final inning began. Fralick hit a double with two outs that sent Bristol Carter home to tie the game. Ike Irish popped up, but due to an error Cole Edwards scored to give the Tigers an 8-7 win.
Irish continued his great weekend on Saturday afternoon with a five-hit performance in six at-bats. The Tigers led 6-3 going into the ninth inning, and Irish hit a solo homerun to give them a 7-3 lead. They could not close the game though. The Wildcats scored four runs to force extra innings. In the 11th inning, Irish broke the tie with a solo homerun that turned out to be the game winning hit for an 8-7 win.
Auburn could not find the bats in game three on Sunday losing 6-0. Irish did get one hit that was his seventh of the series.
Auburn is also ranked in other top college baseball polls. D1Baseball and Perfect Game have the Tigers ranked No. 11. Baseball America ranks them No. 12 and the National College Baseball Writers Association places the Tigers at No. 16.
Auburn will stay on the road this week with a Tuesday night neutral site game at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery against the South Alabama Jaguars. Auburn will then travel to Athens, Georgia for a weekend series against the third-ranked Bulldogs.
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