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Elevator permits out of date

A bridge to nowhere with endless possibilities

Inspections are set to take place before April 30

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The permits displayed in the four elevators in the College Park building have been expired for more than a year.

College Park elevators are to be inspected again no lat-er than April 30, said Paola Laverde, public informa-tion officer for the Califor-nia Department of Industrial Relations.

PM Realty owns the eleva-tors, Laverde said. However, she was not able to say if or when PM Realty scheduled inspections before the expira-tion date.

A failure to schedule an in-spection before the permit’s expiration dates results in fines mandated by the state labor code if the elevator’s use is continued.

PM realty leases the Col-lege Park building to the Cal State Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation.

The fines are a misdemean-or and can result in fines of up to $1000 a day, or 10 days in jail, or both to whomever owns, manages and operates the elevators. Cindy Dowling of PM Realty is the building manager of College Park.

Dowling was unable to comment and confirmed that she was under a standing or-der that prevented her from speaking with a Daily Titan reporter.

A university official was unable to confirm if College Park elevator inspections had been scheduled before the permit expiration date of Jan. 10, 2014.

A CSUF employee in Fa-cilities, Planning and Man-agement said that employees of the department were also under orders not to speak with the Daily Titan and was unable to confirm if inspec-tions had been scheduled be-fore the Jan. 10, 2014 expira-tion date of the College Park building’s four elevators.

Built in 1936, The Bridge to Nowhere, located in the San Gabriel Mountains was the last structure left standing after a flood in 1938. Now left without a destination, the bridge has become a destination in itself. The bridge attracts bungee jumpers, hikers and nature enthusiasts alike.

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The Bridge to Nowhere in the San Gabriel Moun-tains serves as a reminder that sometimes human in-novation can overcome the forces of nature.

The bridge, which was built in 1936 during a proj-ect to connect the East and West forks, was the only complete structure left standing after a flood swept through the area in 1938, according to Bungee America owner Ron Jones, whose company operates the bungee jumping opera-tions there.

The mild temperature and slight breeze on a sun-ny Saturday afternoon complemented the beauti-ful backdrop of the spring green hillsides, with nu-merous wildflowers in bloom along the well-kept 10-mile-roundtrip trail. The culmination of the trail is the pristine, seeming-ly untouched bridge that curves over the San Gabri-el River East Fork into the side of a mountain.

However, one does not expect to find nearly 70 people in line ready to jump off a bridge in the middle of nowhere. This type of operation does leave some people unhappy. Back-packer Carl Atilano and his mother, Nancy Atilano, have been camping, hiking and exploring the area for the past 14 years.

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Cal State Fullerton’s baseball team will head to the East Coast this week-end for a three-game series against the University of Maryland.

The Titans will look to bounce back from a tough loss to No. 3 UCLA on Tues-day evening.

However, Fullerton will face another tough opponent in the Terrapins. Maryland will go into the non-con-ference set as the No. 24-ranked team in the nation

with a 25-10 record, accord-ing to Baseball America.

Fullerton is going into the series with a record of 19-16, but only a 7-9 record away from Goodwin Field. The Titans can even their road record with a solid perfor-mance, but it won’t be easy against a Terrapin squad that holds a strong 13-3 home record.

Fullerton will look to some of its key players to step up in order to find suc-cess against Maryland.

David Olmedo-Barrera’s ability to drive in runners will be crucial, as the junior leads the team with 27 runs batted in. Olmedo-Barrera also carries a solid .302 bat-ting average to go along with his four home runs.

Outfielder David Olmedo-Barrera takes a hack at a pitch. The junior currently leads the Cal State Fullerton baseball team in runs batted in with 27. He will be relied upon to come through with clutch hits if the Titans are to take down the No. 24 Maryland Terrapins.

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CSUF is looking to get back in the national rankings

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One of four desert bighorn sheep seen scaling the San Gabriel Mountains, kicking rocks down to the trails nearby the Bridge to Nowhere.


With no destination the bridge has become one itself

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NFL player convicted of murder

Man to be charged in teen death

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New England Pa-triots star player and tight end Aaron Her-nandez was convicted of first degree murder for the shooting death of acquaintance Odin Lloyd, CNN reported.

Lloyd, whose body was found in a Mas-sachusetts industrial yard in 2013, was dat-ing the sister of Her-nandez’s fianceé and was last seen alive with Hernandez and his friends.

The prosecution in the case argued that the killing was pre-meditated and may have been the re-sult of Lloyd saying something to upset Hernandez.

Hernandez was sen-tenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

He was also found guilty of unlawful pos-session of a firearm and ammunition.

A Texas man will face federal charges for the heroin-related death of a Dallas teen-ager, according to an Orange County Regis-ter report.

Jimison Coleman, 36, was arrested fol-lowing a high speed chase from Buena Park to Irvine.

Coleman was ar-rested on suspicion of conspiracy to pos-sess and distribute heroin following his apprehension.

Coleman got into his car and drove away when police came to his motel on a tip that he was in the area.

He then led them on a high speed chase that ended in Irvine.

The Texas man was suspected of giving heroin to 19-year-old Rian Lashley of Dallas.

Lashley died after using the drug for the first time, according to a federal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

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Furthermore, the official wasn’t able to answer if the four College Park elevators have been scheduled for in-spections, or if they have current permits.

The official refused to answer questions regard-ing the role of the Division

of Occupational Safety & Health and said such ques-tions should be directed to the department itself.

The expired signs are not an indication the ele-vators are being operated unsafely, the official said. He added that complete in-spections of all campus el-evators were conducted in

October and November and “no serious concerns” were found at that time.

Laverde confirmed that the last time the four ele-vators were inspected was Jan. 10, 2013 as of March 12, but did not have any information about any in-spections that took place in October or November.

Arboretum to host Green Scene

The Arboretum will blos-som with crowds when it hosts a variety of plant ven-dors and art exhibits during the 41st Green Scene Plant and Garden Show.

This year’s event will feature garden items from California, said Jan-et McGarvey, the special events coordinator for the Arboretum.

The show has long at-tracted botanists, artists and nature lovers who are looking to learn something new or add something dif-ferent to their gardening collection.

“Our vendors come from all over the state and fea-ture everything from Japa-nese Maples to California Natives,” McGarvey said in

an email. The event doesn’t just at-

tract people for its unusual variety of plants and gar-dening tools, its demonstra-tions draw their own set of crowds as well.

The event offers small classes called “Discovery Sessions,” during which ex-perts will discuss specific topics from drought-friend-ly gardening to strawberry harvesting.

The event will also host a varied selection of art-work, as art professor Law-rence Yun and students in his watercoloring class ex-hibit their perspective on the Arboretum through an exhibition titled, “Na-ture’s Gift: Colors of the Arboretum—A Botani-cal and Landscape Water-color Exhibition by CSUF Students.”

Each student created two pieces, a landscape piece and a botanical piece, a to-tal of 46 paintings will be on display.

“The featured landscape

and botanical paintings are traditional transparent wa-tercolor depictions of the ar-boretum scenery and unique plant collections during late February and early March,”

Yun said in an email. Proceeds from the event

will fund the Arbore-tum’s plant collections, garden maintenance and educational programs,

McGarvey said. The Green Scene Plant

and Garden Show will run from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Arboretum grounds on Sat-urday and Sunday.

Annual event will feature plant vendors, student artwork

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During the Fullerton Arboretum’s 41st Green Scene Plant and Garden Show, garden items, a number of plants and student artwork will all be on display.

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Elevators: Inspections set before end of April

Permits posted in all four elevators of the College Park building show past-due inspection dates. A CSUF official, however, said the elevators are safe for operation.

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The Fullerton Chamber of Commerce awarded Ra-man Unnikrishnan, Ph.D., dean of the College of Engi-neering and Computer Sci-ence, the Educator of the Year award.

The award is given to an educator, administrator, business owner, school, in-stitution or business that demonstrated innovation or a renewed foundation for growth, according to the Fullerton Chamber of Com-merce website.

Unnikrishnan, more com-monly known as dean Unni, joined CSUF’s Engineering and Computer Science de-partment in 2001 after be-ing head of the engineering department at at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York for a decade.

“I am very humbled … on a personal level, when someone says you deserve something, that’s valida-tion of your personal works and professional accom-plishments,” Unnikrishnan said.

Since coming to CSUF, Unnikrishnan’s leader-ship transformed this col-lege with the support of the faculty, said Shawn Wang, Ph.D., professor of electri-cal engineering.

Wang joined CSUF a year before Unnikrishnan arrived.

Prior to Unnikrishnan making his transition to CSUF, the university’s en-gineering and computer

science department faced low enrollment numbers, said Mohinder Grewal, Ph.D., professor of electri-cal engineering.

Unnikrishnan’s outreach efforts to the communi-ty and within the industry helped to bring those num-bers up, he said.

Those efforts, coupled with is Unnikrishnan’s to keep the college’s financ-es in check, went a long way to building up enroll-ment numbers, said Caeci-lla Gotama, CSUF Leader-ship Development Council member for Engineering and Computer Science.

“He is one of those rare individuals who has a busi-ness sense. He understands that balancing the budget is very important. He was able to do that and slowly rebuild the college,” Gota-ma said.

Unnikrishnan was hired several years after a 1996 audit of the college, which faced the possibility of be-ing shut down in the early 1990s, according to a pre-viously published Daily Ti-tan article.

After he took over as dean, he implemented pro-grams focusing on recruit-ment, retention, research, resources and reputation.

When Unnikrishnan took over in 2001, the col-lege had an undergraduate enrollment 1,331 students and a graduate enrollment of 459 students.

Since then, the College of Engineering and Com-puter Science has seen the largest growth of any of CSUF’s eight colleges, re-porting 2,993 undergrad-uate students and 1,229 graduate students enrolled in 2014.

Unnikrishnan also

oversaw the implementa-tion of computer engineer-ing, software engineering and environmental engi-neering master’s programs in 2004.

“Number (of enrollment) can sometimes go up and down but when you change the culture of a college it is more sustainable,” Wang said.

His success, Unnikrish-nan said, is built upon the success of the faculty and staff in the college.

“In a way, had it not been for them, what I do is not relevant. The fact that they chose me is an indication of how good of a job facul-ty and student have done,” Unnikrishnan said.

Unnikrishnan’s main concern is the success of his students, Wang said, and that is why the college continues to thrive.

“For everything he did, he considered the students first, and he’s right. Stu-dents are the reasons that we are here. So he tried to maximize opportunity for all students,” he said.

Originally from In-dia, Unnikrishnan came to America with a degree in electrical engineering from University of Kerla, India.

He pursued his master’s degree in electrical engi-neering at South Dakota State, and his Ph.D. in the same subject at the Univer-sity of Missouri. After re-ceiving his doctorate, Un-nikrishnan moved to New York as an assistant profes-sor at the Rochester Insti-tute of Technology.

In the mid-1980s, he be-came a full-time professor there and, by the early 90s, he was head of the electrical engineering department.

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Ramen Unnikrishnan, Ph.D., dean of the college of engineering and computer science, was awarded the Educator of the year award by the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce.

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During his tenure as dean of the college, Unnikrishnan increased student programs, including ones like the one in which students developed a self-flying plane.

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“We go out to the wilder-ness to be away from people,” Nancy said as she gestured to the group on the bridge.

The couple said the area was empty when they first started coming out.

“We had to scramble up the side of the mountain to get to the trail. We couldn’t find the trail,” Carl said. It used to feel like more of an adventure before the trail became well-defined and filled with people like it is today, Nancy said. “My opinion is that I don’t like this,” Carl said.

Contrary to the Atilano’s hiking the trails, first-time bungee jumper, Art Perez said, “It’s hard to describe. It’s something, like, you assume that you know what the feeling feels like be-cause you’ve jumped from a high dive or something. It’s a very unsafe feeling for sure.”

He said that the fear of jumping didn’t hit him, “until I pushed off on that first jump, (is) when it real-ly hit me.” Perez described his overall experience re-garding the hike and jump as awesome.

CSUF Adventure Club member and public admin-istration major, Immanuel Caldona was there with 15 to 20 members of the club last November. It was his first time also.

“I was scared but I also felt brave at the same time. To me it was more of a per-sonal thing. I just had to just face my fears, and go over that bridge and just be willing to jump,” Caldo-na said. “I can just remem-ber that my whole guts and insides felt like they were tangled in my body.”

The Bridge to Nowhere has been exciting people for over a decade. Gold was discovered in the area in 1897 and 1909 and the landowner patented a claim and it became private prop-erty, Jones said. The gov-ernment paid an easement to the landowner to build the bridge on his property in the 1930s and after the flood, the bridge fell under

private property, which al-lows his company to oper-ate the bungee jumps.

“It’s the only, to my knowledge, the only bridge in the United States that is a full-time licensed … and insured bungee jumping sight (on a bridge),” Jones said.

The bridge is inspect-ed yearly by a state phys-ical engineer and they

are licensed through the amusement ride division of California, Jones said.

“We have an impeccable safety record. The most I’ve ever seen are pinched fingers. All minor first aid stuff,” Jones said.

The hike is considered moderate on most hiking web-sites. Hiking to and from the bridge requires at least a dozen river crossings, but since the

drought, the river has reduced to a stream and is about three feet deep in the deeper spots are on the way to the bridge. There are natural pools under-neath the bridge that appear to be about six feet deep.

During the hike back, many people returning from the bridge—mostly bungee jumpers—were treated to the sight of five giant-horned Desert Sheep scaling up the

side of a cliff. The natural beauty of

the San Gabriel Mountains stands in stark contrast to the lonely bridge wedged between two mountains. A testament to the forc-es of mother nature over-coming manmade struc-tures, in which the bridge now stands as a lonely bea-con that attracts hikers and thrill-seekers alike.

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Wearing her art on her sleeve

While placing jugs of wa-ter for immigrants crossing the Mexican-United States border with a group called Water Station, Teresita de la Torre, 25, found a torn, sun-damaged shirt, which she thinks may have been left behind by an immigrant. Now, de le Torre’s been wear-ing it every day for the past 147 days.

When she first found the ragged shirt on top of a bush she felt really connected to it. When she saw the shirt, she saw a human being, de la Torre said.

“Who is this person and what did they have to go through to get to this point?” de la Torre said. She won-dered how the shirt got there and if the person wearing it was male or female. “My imagination just like ran wild.”

Her connection to the shirt was so strong that she decid-ed to take the shirt home to figure out what to do with it and eventually she would de-cide to wear it.

The main reason de la Torre connected with the shirt is that she knows about the struggle of immigrants well.

“My parents migrated without documents (from Mexico to the United States) when they were really young,” de la Torre said.

Married at the age of 19, de la Torre’s parents came to work in United States so they could work and make enough money to raise a family.

They lived in Chicago for a year and then in Santa Ana for a few years, all while undocumented.

Eventually, her parents moved back to their small town home in Acatic, Mex-ico. Years later de la Torre was born and grew up in Acatic until she was five years old. De la Torre and her parents then moved to Lar-edo, Texas, a small border town next to Mexico. This time when her parents mi-grated they obtained legal residency status.

Growing up in a border town as a Mexican-Amer-ican, de la Torres would hear stories about immi-gration all the time. Some-times she would cross over to Mexico on an international bridge and would see immi-grants down below illegally crossing the border in broad daylight.

“My friends were undoc-umented. People that were very close ... uncles and aunts that have had no oth-er options and their only option is to come here and to work, and to save their lives because they have no other means of working in Mexico,” de la Torre said.

By wearing the tattered shirt she found at the bor-der, she can bring aware-ness to these types of is-sues, of immigration and social standards and on a more personal level by challenging herself and her ego, she said.

The shirt has a strong political message, but it is also a performance art piece, part of her Master’s of Fine Arts degree work at Cal State Fullerton.

Within the program, de la Torre’s first piece of art were stickers that she placed on the jugs of water

she helped place for the immigrants.

“I had always heard, since I was a child, that people that were crossing into the U.S. through that region would die of dehydration,” de la Torre said.

The stickers she placed read “Con agua hay vida, Pa’delante”, which translates to, “With water there is life, go forward.”

She liked what she did, but after she found the shirt she wanted to do more. Be-fore she got the idea to actu-ally wear the shirt, she sewed the image of a woman on the back, even though it was a masculine looking shirt.

She had read a lot of arti-cles and found that women crossing the border are often

raped or sexually assaulted, so women will dress like men to avoid detection.

She displayed the shirt for her Master of Fine Arts class at an event called Committee as a Whole, where she met Rebecca Campbell, assis-tant professor of drawing and painting, who encouraged de la Torre to start wearing the shirt.

Campbell wanted her to turn the shirt into a more per-sonal experience.

“We felt like there was an opportunity for her to tell a more personal story,” Camp-bell said.

Carmen de la Torre, Tere-sita’s older sister, who lives with her and shares the expe-riences with her everyday.

“We talk about the shirt at

least once a night,” Carmen said with a little laugh.

Carmen said she supports what her sister is doing and is inspired by her.

“I love her so much, not only do I love her because she is my sister, but I look up to her in so many ways, she is just so much stronger than I am in a lot of ways,” Car-men said.

De la Torres’s art piece has taken on a life of its own and everyone has their own take on it, including Carmen and Campbell.

People always want to know what the shirt means in one word, but de la Torre says there are many layers to its meaning.

It isn’t just about immigra-tion, she said. It is also about

vanity. She gets a lot of looks walking around with a ripped up shirt falling off her body. She feels like it is a spiritual challenge to let go of her ego and not care about what oth-ers think.

Another meaning she finds in the shirt is in the decay. The shirt is slowly deteriorat-ing, a fate everyone also must go through in life.

De la Torre said she doesn’t know when she will take the shirt off.

“It is getting more and more interesting as the days pass by,” she said.

With a torn and tattered button up, de la Torre has raised political, social and personal questions, while turning her life into a work of art.

A shirt found on the US border is an every day inspiration

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Teresita de la Torre has worn the shirt she found on the U.S. border, the plaid button-up beneath her dress, every day for the past 147 days. It’s an expression to spread awareness of immigration as well as her own personal awareness of vanity and decay.

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In a seemingly surpris-ing show of solidarity with President Obama, the Sen-ate Foreign Relations Com-mittee unanimously passed a resolution that approves the Iranian Nuclear Dewea-ponization deal.

Not surprisingly how-ever, there’s a catch. The congressional zeal for this resolution stems from a provision within it that gives Congress the option to determine whether to re-move or perpetuate sanc-tions levied against Iran.

This is a dangerous course of action. Congres-sional Republicans have already shown their vitri-ol toward Iran when they drafted the “open letter to Iran,” which only under-mined the White House’s efforts at the negotiating table.

Congress needs to stay out of this deal. They have continually shown an in-ability to perform even basic legislative func-tions, and this will be no different.

For a recent example, look no further than the protracted renewal of the Department of Homeland Security.

Media pundits and gov-ernment officials alike ex-pected a swift renewal of Department of Homeland Security, but what seemed like an almost unilater-al support for its renewal turned into a three week debacle of short term fund-ing methods until, at last, a “clean” bill was passed to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

This process was plagued by “poison pill”

amendments and endless politicized debate, and with the fervor Congressional Republicans feel towards Iran, any meaningful con-cessions made with Iran are in jeopardy by similar action.

In order to prevent Iran from refining weapons grade nuclear material, we must be willing to relax sanctions that have dogged the Islamic nation for de-cades. The sanctions re-gimes imposed on Iraq and Iran following the Gulf War unequivocally demon-strated that the nation’s people, and not its gov-ernment, paid the heaviest price for sanctions.

In the ten years follow-ing Desert Storm, sanctions barring the import of cer-tain medical supplies saw the Iraqi infant and child mortality double, the cost of which was an estimated 500,000 young lives.

Iran has viewed the sanc-tions as Western powers attempting to assert their dominance over their state, and have responded with defiance. Sanctions have had a galvanizing effect on Iran’s nuclear policy. Be-fore the intensified round of sanctions in 2006, Iran had approximately 1,000 centrifuges, yet after the sanctions were passed, Iran increased its centrifuge count tenfold.

While the same sanctions are likely a key motivator in bringing Iran to the ne-gotiating table today, we must seize the opportunity to capitalize on Iran’s prag-matism and finally achieve a victory in the long fought battle to prevent a thermo-nuclear Iran.

Until Congress can prove to the American people that it is willing to work on bipartisan issues outside of bills that extend the power of the legislature, it should keep its fangs out of the diplomatic process.

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

Focus on home and family for the next few days. Handle repairs and household matters. Dig in the garden. Contemplate big questions and spiritual mysteries.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

Study for the next two days, interspersed with your active social life. Share feelings as they arise. An answer is coming straight at you. You’re sharp as a tack. Keep your eyes on the prize.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

There’s potentially more money coming in, with this month’s creative surge. Bring it on in. Tap another revenue source, and prepare for a new assignment. Celebrate this business boom by completely restoring your energy.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

Energy surges are predicted. You’re strong and very creative for the next couple of days. Assess your skills and talents. You’re gaining authority. Assertiveness works well now. Take advantage of this confidence.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

It’s easier to finish old projects today and to-morrow, and inspiration flows abundantly. Get serious about your strategy. Slow down and con-sider options. Make space for new games. Copy the itinerary for the team.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

Group projects go well today and tomorrow. These are good party days. Play, but remember your budget. Pass along what you’ve learned. Friends offer comfort, advice and partnership.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

Career matters occupy your thoughts today and tomorrow. There’s a competition or test coming up. Consider new opportunities. There’s a way to win. It takes creativity, which you have in abundant supply. Play with it.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

Travel conditions improve today and tomorrow. You may need your spare change for gas money. You’ll find what you seek. Let your imagination loose.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

Study the money today and tomorrow. Does your idea make sense? Track calls, orders, and income carefully. Shift your perspective for a new view. A lack of funds could threaten your plans. Prayer and meditation are powerful tools.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

Today and tomorrow partnership flowers. Learn a new trick. Your mate is a big help. Shift your attention from indoor to outdoor activities. Study and practice to increase your skills. Focus on the game.

AQUARIUS(JA. 20 - FEB. 18):

Delve into details today and tomorrow as the workload gets intense. You do very well finan-cially, if you can keep from spending it all on good causes.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

Let your sweetheart set the schedule. Get into a relaxing pursuit today and tomorrow. Play with family and friends, and invent creative and un-usual games. Recycle resources to provide new life. You’re especially brilliant.

APRIL 16, 2015 THURSDAY SPORTS

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Coming off a 10th place finish at the Moun-tain View Collegiate in March, the Cal State Ful-lerton women’s golf team will head north to compete in the Big West Champi-onships at the El Macero Country Club in El Mace-ro, California.

The course is a par-72 and spans 6,101 yards.

First-time host of the event, UC Davis, along with Long Beach State, UC Riverside, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, University of Hawaii, UC Irvine and Cal State Northridge will battle Fullerton to be the best of the Big West.

The tournament will be-gin Sunday and last until Tuesday.

Round one will begin with UC Davis and Long Beach State, who are scheduled for a 7:30 a.m. tee time.

Fullerton will tee off at approximately 8:10 a.m. on Sunday against UC River-side and Cal Poly SLO.

Following them will be Hawaii, UC Irvine and CSUN at 9 a.m.

Tee times for the next two rounds are 9 a.m. and

7:30 a.m, respectively.Fullerton finished in last

year’s contest in seventh with a total score of 942.

UC Davis has won the last five Big West Cham-pionships and will be com-peting with the same team from last year.

Sophomore Paige Lee and junior Andrea Wong of UC Davis both lead the Big West in stroke aver-ages with 72.8 and 72.9, respectively.

Their teammate, Bet-ty Chen, is tied with Mar-tina Edberg, who leads Cal State Fullerton with a stroke average of 74.1.

This feat puts the school in second for the most con-secutive Big West titles, be-hind only San Jose State, who won 10 straight from 1987 to 1996. San Jose State, however, moved to the Western Athletic Con-ference in 1996 and then to the Mountain West Confer-ence in 2013.

UC Davis was truly dom-inant at last year’s cham-pionship at the San Luis Obispo Country Club. The Aggies finished 16 strokes ahead of CSUN.

Last year’s Big West in-dividual champion, Edberg, won on a playoff hole. The sophomore from Sweden became the first individual Big West champion for Cal State Fullerton in 2014.

Live scoring for this weekend’s tournament can be found at golfstat.com.

Women’s golf to battle for Big West titleThe Titans seek to dethrone five-time champs UC Davis

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The Cal State Fullerton baseball team is heading east to take on the No. 24-ranked Maryland Terrapins. The Titans are looking to add some big wins to their resume and get back into the national rankings after they slipped out a few weeks ago.

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Sophomore Josh Estill also possesses a power threat for Fullerton with his team-lead-ing five home runs. The Ti-tan first baseman comes in a close second for RBIs on the team with 25.

Fullerton will look to take advantage of a Maryland team that has stumbled of late.

Maryland comes into the series with a win over Liberty Wednesday, but prior to that last two of three games to

Iowa and suffered a crushing 12-1 defeat to George Wash-ington University.

Infielder Jose Cuas leads the team with 31 RBIs, while Brandon Lowe leads the Ter-rapins with a .377 batting av-erage and nine home runs this season.

On the mound, the Ti-tans will likely send out ju-nior Thomas Eshelman on Friday.

The Fullerton ace is cur-rently leading the team with a 2.34 earned run average. Although he struggled in his

last two outings, the tough opposition should be a mo-tivating factor for him to get back to his dominant form.

Junior Justin Garza (3.00 ERA) will be slated as the Saturday starter, while fresh-man John Gavin (4.53 ERA) will likely earn the starting nod Sunday.

Maryland ace Mike Sha-waryn has been seeming-ly untouchable this season. Shawaryn has amassed an 8-0 record to go along with his superb 1.89 ERA. Friday is shaping up to be a tight

pitchers duel with two of the best in the country facing off.

Tayler Stiles (3.23 ERA) will take the mound for Maryland Saturday.

The Titans have been slow-ly working their way back into the national rankings, and a win against a Big 10 school would boost their chances.

The first game will be-gin Friday at 4 p.m., with Saturday’s first pitch sched-uled at 11 a.m. and Sun-day’s at 10 a.m.

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