Cal’s varsity baseball team has struck out.
The University of California, Berkeley, will cut its baseball program and four other varsity sports to save money.
Cal has been agonizing this year how to cut its budget by millions of dollars. These cuts, it said, will save about $4 million in the first year after the move.
The school’s also cutting men’s rugby, which has won the national crown 25 times. Men’s and women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse will also be eliminated.
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said the rugby team’s record means it will continue to get some support from the university, including help recruiting athletes and via access to sports medicine and training facilities.
Cal will have 24 varsity sports after these five are cut. Of its 800 student-athletes, 163 will be affected, 38 of them in baseball, 61 in rugby, 34 in gymnastics and 30 in lacrosse.
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