Poll watch

For the first time in Division I, the UC Davis baseball team is making some national noise. Not all of the major polls have been released, but the Aggies did receive consideration in the rivals.com poll and votes outside the top 25 in the USA Today/ESPN poll on Monday.

UCD moved up to No. 31 in RPI, according to boydsworld.com as well after winning two of three against Santa Barbara and one against No. 10 Stanford.

The Collegiate Baseball poll has two Big West teams in the top-25: Irvine at 6 and Fullerton at 18. Long Beach State, which has lost 11 of its last 13, has dropped out. Stanford is 14th and Cal is 15th.

The Aggies aren't ranked in the Baseball America poll eiher, but writer Aaron Fitt admitted this during a chat: "We did discuss UC Davis in the top 25 meeting today, but the resume isn't quite top 25-worthy. Let's see how the Aggies do the next two weeks against Cal Poly and Fullerton."

Here are some numbers to chew on:

UCD has scored 268 runs through 34 games. By contrast, the 2005 and 2006 clubs scored 247 and 252 for the whole season. With 27 homers, the Aggies have already surpassed 2007 (24), 2006 (24) and 2005 (10) season totals. The team has scored double-digit runs 13 times this season, two of those coming last week.

Catcher Jake Jefferies' prolific Sunday afternoon raised his average to .414, second in the Big West Conference. He leads the Big West in hits (60), RBIs (40) and total bases (84). He earned Big West Player of the Week.

Ryan Royster leads the conference in runs scored (40). The Aggies have two others players in the top 10 in hitting, Ty Kelly (.400, fourth) and Ryan Scoma (sixth, .381).