Speltz Sets Passing Marks in Fullerton Victory : Titans: Mike Pringle rushes for 269 yards in 31-13 win over Cal State Long Beach.

Cal State Fullerton’s Dan Speltz became the school’s career passing leader Saturday, but the one record he says he wants--a winning one--is still a victory away.

After a 31-13 Big West Conference victory over Cal State Long Beach in front of 5,000 at Santa Ana Stadium, Fullerton is 5-4-1 with only a game at San Jose State next week remaining.

Speltz, a senior, threw for 233 yards and three touchdowns, passing Damon Allen’s career record of 4,218 yards on a 55-yard touchdown pass play to Rocky Palamara in the second quarter. Palamara caught five passes for 111 yards and two touchdowns, breaking his own record for receiving yardage record in a season, now 858.

Long Beach, which learned Thursday that Coach Larry Reisbig had resigned effective at the end of the season, had a 7-0 lead on its first possession when Paul Oates lobbed a seven-yard pass to Sean Foster in the corner of the end zone.

But Fullerton scored three touchdowns in the second quarter to take a 21-7 lead.

“We wanted to win this one bad for (Reisbig),” said Oates, who completed 13 of 30 passes for 189 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions. “The losing isn’t his fault. Today we just had so many little things that just didn’t click.”

Fullerton’s Mike Pringle ran for 269 yards in 38 carries Saturday, putting him 180 yards from tying the Big West Conference single-season record of 1,789 yards, set by the Titans’ Obie Graves in 1978.

Long Beach (3-8, 1-5) came back in the third quarter to trim Fullerton’s lead to 21-13 on a three-yard run by Freddie Leslie Jr. John Bavaro blocked the point-after attempt, his fourth blocked kick of the season.

Speltz also set a record for career completions Saturday with 334.

By breaking Allen’s record, he passed probably the best-known player in school history--and one who led Fullerton to its best season, an 11-1 record in 1984.

Speltz has thrived in Fullerton’s one-back, short-passing game offense.

“I’m not taking anything away from Dan Speltz, but the nature of the offense is that we will throw the football,” Fullerton Coach Gene Murphy said. “The ‘what if’ is what if Damon Allen had had this offense. . . . But I’m so happy and gratified for Dan Speltz. Even in bad times, the kid has kept coming and coming.”

One Titan player lost a record. Pringle, who last week tied the Division I single-game rushing record of 357 yards, lost the mark to Indiana’s Anthony Thompson, who ran for 377 yards in 52 carries in a Saturday game at Wisconsin.