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Thursday, April 23, 1987/The Battalion/Page 11 i Sports wmmmamammmmmmm ress talks 'aga!lanes enjoys best year ‘Ever’ nore (hey wanuoi.j t, Adelmanmaini .kinder, R-N.J, eagan’s strong e House on naiioiii took issue wiik.y ;nts. e with Congrtsi y of these things, hat Congress ski on arms-controlis interview, refused to [i North AtlaniicI i allies would tt • understanding! Gorbachev. i offered last »s 50 Soviet launtk ly and Czechossi to Adelman. ipose an oven es that might res’ irv. lets have ate. e launchers, via s has noneinM 8 e - ptop' nut C officii ^ccusec ongdoiR NGTON (AFi-ij i, D-Ohio,callec e resignation d egulatory Conn while another s assailed at a ver charges t! n industn hit rising battle osi By Doug Hall Senior Sports Writer You got the feeling during last Weekend’s three-game baseball [erics with the University of exas that the Longhorn pitchers ad the Texas A&M senior short ’s first name on their mind. “Will we ‘Ever’ be able to get his Magallanes kid out,” they [eemed to say. Eventually, the answer was yes. certainly not with any regu- anty. After banging out three of the ggies’ five hits on Friday night an 8-2 loss, Ever Magallanes ut on a stellar performance Sat- day by going 5-for-8 in double- {icader. Magallanes first home run of re season was a three-run shot in re sixth inning of the first game, diich brought the Aggies to ithin one run of tying the No. 1- lanked Longhorns. But performing above average Sin dutch situations is nothing new to the soft-spoken Magallanes. I In last year’s Southwest Con ference Post-Season Baseball fournament, Magallanes hit .615 lad led the Aggies to the tourna- ftient championship. In addition |o being named the tournament’s Ifost Outstanding Player, Magal- Ines was an All-SWC selection. I NBA accepts 4 cities for expansion teams ■1 mr 4 plgip ill ' 8 . ,Si-.: Texas A&M shortstop Ever Magallanes goes for a tag at second base. Magallanes is known for his Battalion /i/e photo fielding abilities, but his recent performance against Texas proved he’s a hitter, too. I Despite his big-game success, [hough, Magallanes said he loesn’t do anything special to Irepare for rivals such as Texas. I "It was definitely my biggest se- lies at A&M,” he said. “I guess I lut pumped up because we knew ie had to win at least one game irom them, hopefully two. I “But I can’t pinpoint anything lifferent than what I have been loing. I’ve just been hitting the Ball really well in conference.” hairman of dit atal Affairs ( hennas Robot! commissioner, i immediately sclosures that documents aftt scovered that orandum appa leaked from hi, ;d Louisiana till s, in a relta , said “1 am ! Sen. Glenn’ssaifl mv resignation, ile, the NRCs or Stello, was atii Energy subcom® F having favored the controrerab clear plant ii 5“ ■ by coaching to rategy. •nied any tvrafi feud’ea’ o Zech, vvhotiid ; Stello had merti'' ie facts of life'* fficials. I Magallanes’ .478 SWC average lads the Aggies and places him lecond in the conference. On the Season, the smooth-fielding JhoTtstop’s .377 average places pini second on the team behind third baseman Scott Livingstone, |'ho is currently hitting at a .428 clip. uates: HE )IT With four freshmen in Head Coach Mark Johnson’s starting lineup, it’s easy to see how Magal lanes and Livingstone might feel an immense pressure to come through in the clutch for the Ag gies. But such is not the case, at least according to Magallanes. “The freshmen have been doing such a great job, that it hasn’t added any pressure to Scott or myself,” the A&M co captain said. “They’ve been doing more than their share of the work, so it hasn’t been a problem at all.” Like so many other shortstops in the college and professional ranks, Magallanes first earned a name for himself by his work in the field, not at the plate. His abil ity to range deep into either gap and a fluid throwing motion at tracted the attention of A&M pitching coach Jim Lawler, who recruited the shortstop out of Cerritos Junior College in Cali fornia. So after a 1986 season in which his .310 average was considered “a pleasant surprise” by the A&M baseball media guide, Magallanes said he is out to prove his merit as a hitter as well as a fielder. “I don’t want to be known as a one-dimensional player,” he said. “Those shortstops are a dime a dozen. I want to impress people and impress scouts with my ability to hit and my ability to field.” It’s those two skills that Magal lanes, who was drafted last year by the New York Mets, hopes will allow him to play professional baseball. Although the Mets cur rently owji his rights, Magallanes said he doesn’t care what team he plays for —just as long as he gets a chance to play. “It really doesn’t matter to me,” he said. “The money is all the same color.” Despite losing three of their four games last week, the 37-16-1 Aggies fell only one place in ESPN’s collegiate rankings, from No. 10 to No. 11, because their losses were to top-ranked Texas and Oklahoma State. But according to Magallanes, those losses are behind them, and the Aggies are planning ahead for this weekend’s three-game se ries with Texas Christian Univer sity (22-29 on the season and 3-12 in the SWC). “We’ve got to play hard against TCU to win,” Magallanes said. “Right now, every win is impor tant to us. We’re going to concen trate on winning Friday’s game first and then look ahead to the doublerheader on Saturday. We’ll approach it game by game.” Friday’s game will begin at 3 p.m. in Fort Worth, and Satur day’s double-header, which will be televised on Home Sports En tertainment, begins at 1 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA, refusing to choose between what it considered two equal Florida appli cants, accepted both Miami and Or lando into the league Wednesday along with Charlotte, N.C., and Min neapolis. Charlotte and Miami will be ad mitted for the 1988-89 season. Min neapolis and Orlando will follow a year later, primarily because their new arenas are not as close to com pletion. Each expansion franchise will pay an entry fee of $32.5 million. “It just wouldn’t have been fair to choose between two equal Florida applicants,” Commissioner David Stern said after the announcement, which followed a four-hour meeting. “We decided that the only proper thing to do was take both.” On April 2, the NBA’s Expansion Committee recommended that Min neapolis and Charlotte be accepted along with either Orlando or Miami. In the weeks since that recommen dation, which Stern said was based on the committee’s instructions from the Board of Governors that three teams be invited, the two Florida cit ies have exchanged barbs. “Much has been written about the deficiences of those two cities, but in fact the problem for the board was choosing between them,” Stern said. “Because of the support demon strated in Miami and Orlando, and the civic pride and involvement by both government and fans, we couldn’t do anything but choose both.” The commissioner said the gover nors’ vote was unanimous, although only an 18-5 majority was required. “The dilemma between Miami and Orlando simply was that they are in the same state,” said Phoenix Suns owner Richard Bloch, chair man of the Expansion Committee. Explaining why only Charlotte and Minneapolis were in the original recommendation, Bloch said, “If we were limited to three expansion teams, we didn’t feel that two of them could be in the same state.” Two expansion drafts, one in 1988 for Charlotte and Miami and one in 1989 for Minneapolis and Or lando, and college drafts will be used to stock the four new teams. Each of the 23 existing teams will protect eight players in each expan sion draft and each will lose one player. In the college drafts of 1988 and 1989, the new teams will choose eighth and ninth. The location of three of the four teams in the East complicated the di visional alignments, so the governors adopted a rotating system that has little regard for geographic location. In 1988-89, Charlotte will com pete in the Atlantic Division and Mi ami in the Midwest, with Sacramento moving permanently to the Pacific. In 1989-90, Charlotte and Minne apolis will compete in the Midwest, Orlando in the Central and Miami in the Atlantic. In 1990-91, Minneapolis and Or lando will move to the Midwest, Charlotte to the Central and Miami will stay in the Atlantic. In 1991-92, Miami and Orlando will compete in the Atlantic, Char lotte in the Central and Minneapolis in the Midwest. The Charlotte team is tentatively known as the Spirit, while the other teams will be the Minnesota Timber- wolves, the Orlando Magic and the Miami Heat. The Timberwolves expect to play in a downtown Minneapolis arena that would seat 18,000. Construction of that arena has not begun, and if it is not ready by the start of the 1989- 90, season the team will play in the Metrodome, home of baseball’s Twins and the NFL Vikings. Charlotte will play in a new 23,500-seat Charlotte Coliseum that is under construction and is sched uled to be ready July 1, 1988. Ted Arison, major owner of the Miami franchise, based the city’s bid on it being the ninth-largest tele vision market in the nation. The Heat has a new 15,184-seat Miami Arena under construction and scheduled to open March 1, 1988. Orlando will play in a new 15,000- seat Centroplex Arena, scheduled to open in September, 1988. ■■■■■■■■■■ BUDGET RENT A CAR CLEARANCE SALE! • THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY • 9:00 A.M. 'til 10:00 P.M. APRIL 24th AND APRIL 25th 200 CARS & TRUCKS WILL BE SOLD! (NO DEALERS PLEASE) BRING YOUR TITLE! RING YOUR TRADE! ON THE SPOT FINANCING TO QUALIFIED BUYERS! atory credit ie purchase jrral on your ition present rom college nent. 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