Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LUBBOCK, TX - The New Mexico State softball team fell 5-3 to UT Arlington in the first game of the Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic on Friday morning. NM State finished with six hits on the day, but two big hits by the Mavs was enough to beat the Aggies. NM State continues with a game against host Texas Tech at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

Sophomore Emma Adams went 2-for-2 on the game with a pair of singles and a walk. Junior Staci Rodriguez picked up the two RBI for NM State with a two-run double in the fifth, helping NM State to its six hits on the game. UT Arlington also had six hits.

Redshirt sophomore Karysta Donisthorpe started in the circle for NM State and took the loss as she gave up UTA’s five hits in her two innings at work. She moves to a 5-4 record.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State men’s basketball team won its 22nd-consecutive home Western Athletic Conference matchup Thursday night after defeating Grand Canyon University, 81-57, inside the Pan American Center.

The Aggies conclude the WAC regular season with a 12-4 conference record and can still become WAC co-champions if Utah Valley loses at home to Bakersfield on Friday night. NM State finishes the regular season 23-9 overall, its fifth time with 20-plus wins under head coach Marvin Menzies, including the last three seasons.

It was ‘Senior Night’ inside the Pan American as NM State celebrated seniors Kevin Aronis and Renaldo Dixon who were playing their final game on the Aggie home court.   Continue Reading This Post >>

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PHOENIX, AZ - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team struggled from 3-point range, but saw junior Danesia Williamson score 28 points in the 66-56 loss to Grand Canyon on Thursday, March 6. The final game of the regular season brings the Aggies to 10-19 overall and 7-9 in Western Athletic Conference play heading into the WAC Tournament,

Williamson was 10-of-28 from the floor to lead NM State and all scorers in the game. She also tallied two assists, three steals and a block with seven rebounds. Freshman Brianna Freeman also helped out with 10 points and nine boards while finishing 5-of-9 on the night.

The Aggies shot 32 percent as a team and allowed the Antelopes to shoot 41 percent. NM State was narrowly out-rebounded by GCU 44-43, but held the Lopes with just two players scoring in double figures. The Aggies won the points off turnovers 14-8, while the teams evenly matched with 32 points in the paint.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LUBBOCK, TX - The New Mexico State baseball team fell to No. 30 Texas Tech, 5-3, Thursday night on Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock, Texas. The Aggies go to 7-6 on the season, while Texas Tech improves to 11-3 overall.

The Aggie offense was led by Derek Umphres, who was 3-for-4 on the night with a run scored. Kyle Kilgore was 1-for-2 at the plate with a homerun and two RBI. Kilgore’s homerun was his first of the year. The Aggies outhit the Red Raiders 7 to 4.

Christopher Bradley took the loss for NM State, throwing six complete innings, allowing two runs on three hits and striking out six batters. He is now 0-2 on the season.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - At halftime of the final home men’s basketball game of the 2013-14 season, Thursday night against Grand Canyon, head football coach Doug Martin will present the first annual Pervis Atkins Spirit Award to a member of the NM State Football Program. The award was created to honor former NM State great and College Football Hall of Famer Pervis Atkins.

“I would like every single Aggie to know that Pervis Atkins and his family feel honored to know that there are athletes who continue the tradition of dedication, teamwork and good character in this current day,” Christine Atkins Carmel, Atkins’ daughter said. “Thank you for remembering to honor the qualities in athletes that make them more than just a statistic, that they too can share in a legacy that will inspire those to come in future generations.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Head track and field coach Orin Richburg announced Wednesday the signing of Jereme Santistevan, who will join the cross country team in 2014.

Santistevan attends Pojoaque Valley High School in Santa Fe, N.M., where he competed inboth cross country and track.

“We expect an athlete of his caliber to come in and contribute right away,” assistant coach Christopher Huff said. “He understands the vision that we have here at NM State and we’re very excited to have him on the team.”

In his career, Santistevan ran a three-mile run and a 5,000-meter run during the cross country season. His best times as a senior in the three-mile was 16:10.15 and his best time in the 5,000-meter run was 15:28. He finished first overall in the three-mile at the Los Alamos Invite and the 2013 NMAA 3A State Cross Country Championships.  Continue Reading This Post >>

bleedCrimson.net: Yesterday was a game you obviously needed pretty badly in terms of salvaging the series and getting your guys feeling better about themselves after what had happened the previous three games and especially as you head out on the road for 11 straight games.
Rocky Ward: Yeah it was very, very important. After coaching for 20 years we still get nervous about games. This one I woke up before the game and and felt a little bit more pressure. It wasn’t a championship game or anything like that but I knew it was important to us for exactly what you said. We hadn’t played well. We felt like we’d given away three games even though that’s not completely the truth. Oakland played very, very well. I think to come out on Sunday and get a real good outing out of Kilgore and the t.v. game helped. It’s something we’ve always played pretty well on AggieVision. We haven’t won all those games but we’ve won most of them. We were able to get control of the game and in reality once we got control, we hadn’t had control of any of the other ones, we weren’t going to let go.

I learned a little bit about the club, not that they bounced back but when they got to the top side, they proceeded to make Oakland pay. In their own mind, once we got control of the game we were going to maintain control and keep the accelerator down and they did. That’s good. In reality that’s what you have to do anyway. Baseball is harder to do that because you play so many games and sometimes mentally and physically you get tired and in a lot of cases you get tired mentally before you get tired physically and it’s important that the guys know that if we have a couple of disappointing games that we can bounce back and it’s important that I think among the teammates that once we get control of a game we can close it out and keep the emotional volume up, even later in the game.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

EL PASO, TX - The New Mexico State softball team fell 5-1 to I-10 rival UTEP on Tuesday, March 4. The Aggies gathered six hits on the game, but drop the first game to the Miners since 2010. NM State moves to 13-8 on the season.

Junior Kelsey Dodd went 2-for-3 on the game with a pair of singles, while the Aggies lone run came off the bat of reigning WAC Hitter of the Week Staci Rodriguez,

In the circle, redshirt sophomore Karysta Donisthorpe worked three innings and took the loss, walking four with four strikeouts. Senior Celisha Walker came in in the top of the fourth to pitch four straight strikeouts and finish the game with five.  Continue Reading This Post >>