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Cal Poly is enjoying its finest baseball season since joining the Division I ranks in 1995.
At 35-5, the Mustangs enter the final month of the regular season No. 1 in one major poll and as a consensus top-three team. Their 11-game win streak is second-longest in the nation behind Columbia's 14-gamer.
After it swept traditional Big West power Cal State Fullerton last weekend, Cal Poly established itself as a strong contender for a top-eight national seed for the NCAA tournament.
After he heard Collegiate Baseball newspaper ranked his team No. 1 this week, Coach Larry Lee immediately texted his players to warn them not to dwell on the accolade. But second baseman Mark Mathias called it "a big achievement to be on top on the West Coast."
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