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CAL STATE FULLERTON NOTES : Panel Recommends Baseball Get Largest Share of Fees

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

A Cal State Fullerton student athletic advisory council has recommended that baseball get the biggest share of the $500,000 to be generated by a student fee referendum that will benefit the Titan sports program beginning this fall.

Athletic Director Bill Shumard, who has resigned the position effective May 31, said Monday the group’s proposal will go to university President Milton A. Gordon to be used in the budgeting process.

Shumard said the student group recommended that baseball receive $70,000 from the student fees. Other fund allocation recommendations: soccer, $55,000; men’s basketball, $53,000; women’s volleyball, $50,000; women’s gymnastics, $40,000; track and cross-country, $40,000; wrestling $30,000, women’s basketball, $28,000; softball, $28,000; women’s tennis, $12,000, and fencing, $10,000. Other proposed allocations: $40,000 for publicity and advertising, $34,000 for the Sports Club Council and $10,000 for the pep squad.

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“I think the students did a good and thorough job of exploring the issues involved and honoring all our sports,” Shumard said. He said he was “surprised and disappointed” that the men’s basketball did not fare better in the recommendations, however. Shumard said when he resigned his position last week that he feels the school’s basketball program should be better funded.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Jeff Ferguson was named national player of the week by Collegiate Baseball. Ferguson was 14 for 18 with five home runs and 15 runs batted in in four games.

In three games against New Mexico State, he was 13 for 15, with two doubles, five home runs and 12 RBIs. He was seven for seven in one of the New Mexico State games, a Big West record for hits in a game.

The Titans are ranked second by Baseball America and fourth by Collegiate Baseball in the latest rankings. Fullerton (39-10) leads the Big West with a 15-5 record. Nevada and Long Beach State are tied for second at 13-5.

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