BEAUMONT, Texas – The momentum continues to build for the Lamar University baseball team. Following their three-game sweep of Southeastern Louisiana Sunday the Cardinals landed in the College Baseball Nation Top 25 poll. The Cardinals enter the poll 24^th just ahead of Arizona.
 
The LU baseball team becomes the third Cardinal squad this year to be ranked in a national top 25 poll (soccer and women's basketball).
 
The Cardinals are one of just three schools from the Lone Star State in the poll (No. 1 Texas A&M and No. 22 Dallas Baptist).
 
Lamar first landed in the national spotlight earlier this season after posting the nation's longest win streak (13 games). The streak was eventually snapped during a midweek game at Houston, but Big Red responded to the loss by sweeping a three-game series at No. 25 Oklahoma.
 
The Cardinals have remained hot winning 23 of their last 25 games and currently sit atop the Southland Conference standings with an 8-1 (.889) record, which equals Lamar's best start in conference play since 2008.
 
LU's current streak has included one of the most unique no-hitters ever thrown. Big Red got a combined no-hitter from Jacob Ellis and Austin Neal. The Cardinals won the game in 11 innings and saw Ellis go 9.0 innings before Neal closed out the final 2.0 innings for the win and the historic performance. The lone blemish on Ellis' line was a seventh-inning walk. Ellis went on to be named Southland Conference Pitcher of the Week.
 
The Cardinals will put their national ranking on the line Friday when they travel to Corpus Christi to face Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Game one against the Islanders is set for 6 p.m. Friday.