Shoulder Surgery to End Season for Expos’ Fullmer

Brad Fullmer, a former baseball standout at Montclair Prep and now one of the Montreal Expos’ top prospects, will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery next week, Expo director of minor league operations Kent Qualls said.

Qualls said the surgery will be performed by orthopedist Frank Jobe in Inglewood.

Fullmer, a second-round pick of the Expos in the amateur draft last June, has not played a professional game. The infielder signed after the 1993 minor league season, playing only in instructional league. His right shoulder had been bothering him since last summer.

Women’s Volleyball

Rene Goth, a 5-foot-10 outside hitter from Buena High, this week became the first recruit to sign a letter of intent to play for Lian Kang Lu, Cal State Northridge’s first-year coach.

Goth is a two-time All-Channel League selection and was team most valuable player for Buena the past two seasons.

Track and Field

Joe Hicks of Cal State Northridge, has been selected as the California/Nevada Track and Field Assn. university male athlete of the week.

Hicks, a senior from Modesto San Benito High, put the shot 59 feet 11 inches in Sunday’s Northridge Invitational to move to fourth on the all-time Matador list in that event.

Names in the News

A free-throw fund-raiser benefiting John Flowers and his family will be conducted at halftime of tonight’s Clippers-Phoenix Suns game at the Sports Arena. Flowers was a Cal State Northridge basketball recruit who lost both his legs as a result of a 1992 auto accident.

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