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riday • May 8, 1998 . N v The Battalion SPORTS Aggie Sports Briefs Mesa chosen r individual title Oexas A&M freshman Rafael de |sa has been selected to the field 34 in the NCAA Individual Tennis ampionships, beginning on May ■at the Henry Field Tennis Stadium Athens, Ga. |De Mesa, who is ranked No. 32 Tonally, was the Big 12 Freshman fthe Year and also earned All-Big [honors in singles and doubles apetition. De Mesa holds a 23-11 brail record in singles. [This is a great opportunity for fael,” Coach Tim Cass said. “He a tremendous season and this ■ be good for him. With the region- j coming up, we are not really think- about the individual part of the !\s. This team still has some work )tlo before it worries about that.” llhe NCAA selects 64 singles pyers and 32 doubles teams for individual portion of the nation- championships which follow the bm portion. [De Mesa was the second player csen from Region VI, behind Texas Iristian's Esteban Carrill. De Mesa Jds the head-to-head advantage Carrill as he defeated the |rned Frog, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, in dual Jativc match competition in early April. i&M named top teed for regionals aetbefi For the fourth consecutive sea- .mortson. the Texas A&M Men’s Tennis feai’ will be playing in the NCAA Re- icari-.gion VI Championship, with competi- iiiBn beginning Friday, May 15 at the ^ter Penick-Allison Tennis Center on the lab University of Texas campus. Imesdl As expected, the Aggies will be the peci-tlo. 1 seed in the eight-team tourna- vooa mentand after posting a 17-5 overall Inoieiiecord and winning the Big 12 tour- jrovesinament championship. Coach Tim |'o arc Cass is excited to be in the regional. # “Last year we were the last team from staff and wire reports in and were seeded eighth,” Cass said. “This year Cass we are the one- seed and that shows us a lot of progress in a year’s time. That tells us a lot about where this program was and where we are going.” In the latest edition of the Rolex Collegiate Rank ings released Tuesday, the Aggies are ranked No. 11 nationally, matching the highest ranking in school history, which was earned by the 1985 team. The Aggies will face No. 8-seeded Arkansas-Little Rock in the first round and are in the same half of the draw as No. 4-seeded Arkansas and No. 5-seeded Southwestern Louisiana. UALR is ranked No. 61 na tionally and holds a record of 14-9. The Aggies hold a 5-0 advantage over UALR in the series with the last meet ing coming in 1989. A&M golf makes NCAAs, again The Texas A&M Men’s Golf Team has been invited to the NCAA Central Regional May 14-16 at Oak Hill Coun try Club in San Antonio. The regional bid is the Aggies’ seventh straight and their ninth in the last 10 years. “We’re thrilled about going to re gionals again, es pecially with it re turning to Texas,” Coach Bob Ellis said. “We’ve played really well at regionals the last two years, winning in 1996 and placing third last year. We’re more than capable of making it back to the national tournament again this year.” The top 10 teams and top two in Ellis Hatchell lays egg on Big 12 post dividuals not on those teams will ad vance to the NCAA Championships May 27-30 in Albuquerque, N.M. The Aggies will be going for their 14th NCAA tournament appearance in El lis’s 24 years as head coach. A&M won the 1996 NCAA Central Regional in Ann Arbor, Mich., then placed third last year in Norman, Okla. The Aggies went on to finish 13th at the 1997 NCAA Champi onships in Lake Forest, III. Aggie tennis to battle Houston The Texas A&M Women’s Tennis Team is the No. 4 seed in the NCAA Southwest Regional Championships being held May 15-17 at the “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. The No. 26-ranked Aggies, who are 18-10 overall and finished fourth in the Big 12 Conference, will face No. 52-ranked Houston in the first round of the eight-team tournament. Earlier this season the Aggies beat the Houston Cougars, 6-3, at the Omar Smith Tennis Center. A&M holds a 13-6 overall advantage in the series with Houston. “U of H was a tough match for us earlier this year, but all of the first round matches at the NCAAs are go ing to be tough," A&M Coach Bobby Kleinecke said. “They have one of their top girls coming back from injury and they are coming in on a high af ter winning their conference.” Despite a 9-3 record against teams that compete in the Southwest Region and a 4-1 record over teams in the tournament, the Aggies are the fourth seed behind No. 1 Arkansas, No. 2 Miami (Fla.) and No. 3 Louisiana State. Other teams in the three-day tour nament are No. 48 Baylor, No. 44 Rice and No. 31 Texas Christian. In the NCAA Southwest Region, the Aggies are the third-highest ranked team behind Texas and No. 15 Arkansas. DALLAS (AP) — Big 12 Commis sioner Steve Hatchell, who helped form the league in 1995, resigned on Thursday, saying both he and the conference need a change. Hatchell, who last month said he planned to have another job by this summer, will leave effec tive immediately “It’s time for a change for the conference and me,” Hatchell said in a news release faxed to news agencies Thursday evening. “Together we have taken this conference from an idea to a reality. ... That process has been difficult and exhaustive at times. But I really believe the Big 12 today stands for excellence and integrity.” A Big 12 spokesman said Hatchell was unavailable for further comment. Sources told The Associated Press last month that Hatchell was leaving under pressure. Hatched But both Ray Bowen, president of Texas A&M and chair of the con ference, and Hatchell, denied that at the time. Hatchell later told some reporters, however, that he was be ing forced out. Asked again Thursday if Hatch ell was pressured, Bowen said Big 12 presidents have “taken no ac tion to do that.” “I only know what I have read in the papers and he has said he feels like he is (being forced out),” Bowen said. “You’d have to ask him that.” Bowen said Oklahoma State as sociate athletic director Dave Mar tin, recently hired by the Big 12 as chief operating officer, will replace Hatchell as interim commissioner. “Steve Hatchell has done a re markable job positioning the Big 12 for greatness,” Bowen said. “The foundation has been laid. Now we must build the future.” Bowen added that Big 12 presi dents will likely begin discussing a permanent replacement for Hatch ell at their annual spring meeting later this month. He declined to discuss possible candidates. “It’s very premature,” Bowen said. “We’re very comfortable with Dave Martin in the interim role.” Some officials around the Big 12 have indicated that the league will seek a commissioner with no ties to any conference schools to ease friction that has existed between the Big 12 North and Big 12 South since the start. Before taking over the Big 12, Hatchell was commissioner of the Southwest Conference, remnants of which make up the Big 12 South. Hatchell recently intemewed for a top position with the Salt Lake Or ganizing Committee, which will oversee the Winter Olympics in 2002. But Hatchell did not get that job. In his release, Hatchell did not mention other job possibilities. The statement said only that he “will explore a number of oppor tunities which can utilize his spe cific skill set.” Sources have said Hatchell’s problems stemmed from his treat ment of staff members at Big 12 headquarters in Dallas. Knicks lose to Pacers in Ewing’s return INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — He fumbled the ball the first time he touched it, he dribbled it poorly, shot it terri bly and didn’t lead his team to a storybook victory. No, Patrick Ewing’s come back wasn’t the stuff of legend. Instead, Ewing may have been more of a liability than a leader in his first game in 4 1/2 months as the Indiana Pacers defeated the New York Knicks 85-77 Thursday night for a 2-0 lead in their second- round series. ® This was the night the Knicks had been waiting for since Ewing, who went down in December with what was thought to be a career-threatening wrist injuiy, vowed to return for the playoffs. He was on the court with the starting five, but lost the opening tip in what would turn out to be a long list of instances when Ewing simply was not his old self. 'gm g jH He looked tentative in catching a 60-foot pass less than a minute into the game and had his first shot blocked. His next attempt was blocked, too, and he missed his first five shots en route to shooting 3-for-l 1 and getting 10 points and six rebounds in 27 minutes. Ewing also had a few defensive lapses, none more costly than when he left Rik Smits wide open with 1:31 left for a jumper that gave Indiana a 79-73 lead. The Knicks would pull within 79-77 on a layup by Ewing with 46 seconds left, but the Pacers held New York scoreless the rest of the way and wrapped up the victory. Game 3 in the best-of-7 series is Saturday at New York, and the Knicks will be trying to avoid dropping behind 0-3 — a deficit that would be nearly impossi ble to overcome. <2 Nurturing the Future Assist a child, Assist an Aggie, Assist a fellow employee. Become a Children’s Center Benefactor. Students, Student Groups, Faculty, Staff, FriendsII You can assist. Here’s How: Investment opportunities: Scholarships for child care fees. 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