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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.
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tag at second base. Magallanes is known for his
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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
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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.
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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.
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