Boyd, DeWalt Receive Softball Honors From Big West

Tiffany Boyd and Denise DeWalt, both from Cal State Fullerton, have been selected as the co-most valuable players of the Big West Conference by a vote of the softball coaches.

Boyd, a junior pitcher, is 29-6 with a 0.76 earned-run average and 283 strikeouts with two games remaining in the season. DeWalt, a junior shortstop, is hitting .393, the highest average in the conference.

Titan freshman Marci White (third base) and senior Kim Powers (designated player) also made the first team.

Among other first-team players: Fresno State pitcher Terry Carpenter, formerly of Edison High, and catcher Christa Yorke, a Marina graduate, Cal State Long Beach second baseman Linda Lunceford, a Trabuco Hills High graduate, and UNLV pitcher Lori Harrigan, from Magnolia.

The take, after expenses, for Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Athletic Foundation auction Saturday was approximately $40,000, according to TAF director Larry Zucker. Zucker said $25,000 would go to the TAF’s general scholarship fund, and $15,000 would go toward specific athletic programs.