Arizona State tailback Terry Battle, who rushed...

Arizona State tailback Terry Battle, who rushed for 1,043 yards and 18 touchdowns last season despite limited playing time in the first six games, will skip his senior year and seek to be drafted by the NFL. Battle also returned kickoffs 99 and 100 yards for scores.

Also declaring for the draft were Alabama junior linebacker Dwayne Rudd and San Diego State receiver Will Blackwell, who is projected as a second- or third-round pick.

Miami wide receiver Yatil Green will join teammates Tremain Mack, a wide receiver, and Kenard Lang, a defensive end, in making himself eligible for the draft.

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San Diego State has named Dave Lay, 57, offensive coordinator. He had been coordinator at Colorado State the last four seasons. . . . Northern Iowa has hired former Toledo assistant Mike Dunbar, 48, to replace Terry Allen as its coach. Allen left in December after eight seasons to coach at Kansas. . . . Thomas E. “Shorty” McWilliams, who played with the Los Angeles Dons in 1949 and in Army’s backfield with Heisman Trophy winners Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, died in Meridian, Miss., at 70.

Baseball

Shigetoshi Hasegawa, a right-handed pitcher from Japan, has signed with the Angels.

Hasegawa, 28, had a 53-39 record with a 3.11 earned-run average in Japan from 1991-95. He was 4-6 with a 5.34 ERA with the Orix Blue Wave last season.

The New York Yankees agreed to a $1-million, one-year contract with free agent outfielder Mark Whiten. They also re-signed infielder Luis Sojo to a $400,000, one-year contract. . . . The Detroit Tigers signed veteran outfielder Vince Coleman to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training camp as a nonroster player.

Tennis

Top-ranked Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf were named the top-seeded players for the Australian Open, the season’s first Grand Slam event, which begins Monday in Melbourne.

The tournament also added a name to its growing list of withdrawals when French Open champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who was seeded fourth, broke his hand in a gym Thursday.

Second-seeded Martina Hingis survived a first-set scare and won her quarterfinal match, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, over Yuyuk Basuki in the Sydney International.

Top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic led the advance to the men’s semifinals with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Sandon Stolle.

Marianne Werdel-Witmeyer moved into the semifinals of the Tasmanian International tournament with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over sixth-seeded Shi-Ting Wang of Taiwan, 6-4, 6-2, in Hobart, Australia.

Miscellany

The U.S. Olympic Committee is auditing the U.S. Taekwondo Union over claims that two rival leaders misspent more than $200,000 of the group’s funds.

Six cities are being considered to host the first of two U.S. final-round CONCACAF World Cup qualifying soccer games. The possible sites for the March 16 game against Canada include Palo Alto, Washington, Jacksonville, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala.; Foxboro, Mass., and East Rutherford, N.J.

Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser, who survived two nights of a blizzard in the mountains of New Mexico, faces up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine for violating the federal Wilderness Act by driving a snowmobile into a federal wilderness area.

Names in the News

Sheryl Swoopes, perhaps the biggest star of the fledgling Women’s NBA, will miss most of its inaugural season because she is pregnant.

Heavyweight Andrew Golota received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a $7,000 fine in Warsaw, Poland, for beating up a man in a disco brawl in 1990.