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The Battalion
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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.
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