Finding the closest

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Tom

You should have a record of all your bats, using a type will do:
(untested! :P)

Type tBall
 Field entity
End Type

Then you'd create your bat & balls:

bat = LoadMesh("myBat.x")
Local ball.tBall
For i = 1 to 3
 ball = New tBall
 ball\entity = CreateShpere()
Next

Now just call the function in your game, passing it the 'bat' entity

Function NearestBall(bat)

  Local ball.tBall
  Local nearestBall.tBall
  Local nearestDist#

  ;Assume first tBall instance is the nearest
  nearestBall = First tBall
  nearestDistance = EntityDistance(bat,nearestBall\entity)

  For ball = Each tBall
    If ball <> nearestBall
      dist = EntityDistance(bat,ball\entity)
      If dist < nearestDist
        nearestBall = ball
        nearestDist = dist
      End If
    End If
  Next

  Return nearestBall\entity
End Function