College Baseball Notebook: Program-best No. 7 ranking marks another milestone for ascending Jayhawks

In the polls

UCLA (43-4), North Carolina (37-9-1) and Georgia Tech (39-8) remained the top three teams by D1Baseball.com. Texas is No. 3 by Baseball America. UCLA, which swept Michigan State on the road to improve to 24-0 in Big Ten play, hosts nationally ranked Oregon this weekend. North Carolina, which was off this past weekend, lost 12-2 to Coastal Carolina and beat Duke 13-0 in a nonconference game last week. Georgia Tech won two of three against Xavier. Texas (35-10) won its series over Mississippi State.

Freshman goes Hog wild

Arkansas freshman Christian Turner pushed a ball just outside the left-field foul pole before he delivered the ninth-inning, walk-off homer to beat Mississippi 5-4 on Sunday. It reminded him of the situation five weeks earlier when he faced Florida's Luke McNeillie in the bottom of the ninth. That time, he struck out after his fly to left blew foul, ending a 7-6 loss. “I can’t lose this at-bat," Turner said he told himself after fouling off the pitch against Walker Hooks. "Florida got me, but Ole Miss ain't going to get me.” Batting for the first time in the game after Nolan Souza singled leading off, Turner drove a 1-2 pitch over the right-center fence to win the game and series. “I really believe this team deserved to win a game like that,” coach Dave Van Horn said. “We really have not won a game like that in all the games we’ve played. Sometimes you've just got to have a break and someone has to step up, and those two hitters in the ninth did it.”

Cleanup spot

Texas overcame Luke Harrison's rough first inning to beat Mississippi State 11-6 on Sunday and win two of three in the top-10 matchup. The Longhorns were down 5-0 after the first, but Harrison righted himself and struck out nine in five innings. Three relievers held the Bulldogs to one hit over the last four innings. ... Ohio State's seven homers in a 10-1 win over Nebraska on Sunday were its most since connecting seven times against UConn in 2009. The Buckeyes swept the Cornhuskers for the first time. ... UC Santa Barbara outscored Cal State Bakersfield 41-13 in a three-game sweep, with the Gauchos scoring their most runs in two years in Sunday's 19-9 win. \\\_ AP college sports: