bleedCrimson.net: Your overall thoughts on the weekend series against UT-Arlington?
Rocky Ward: Overall Arlington had put themselves in a pretty good position, a game back of Bakersfield coming in so one of the teams that had played themselves up to the top of the league. They had also predominantly played the bottom of the league where we had predominantly played the top of the league and that's kind of what it more disappointing than anything.

We had one of those games on Friday where Adam didn't throw poorly, it was one of those pure bad baseball luck days. We didn't play great but they didn't play great. We left for a week and our field got hard as a rock and we didn't do a good job of prepping it before the game and all of the sudden they get four balls that hit the hardpan in front of the plate and bounce over the infielders' heads including a key one with their four-hole to the plate with the bases loaded and one out and what would have been just a normal ground ball to the shortstop double play ended up bouncing over my shortstop's head and leads to a couple runs and runs to a three or four run inning. It was kind of a back breaker. Then again you play on the same field but it benefitted their style. We came in with 40 home runs and they came in with 12 or 13. We're more of a line-drive power type ball club and they come out and get the ball put in play and a hard fast surface benefits that type of ball club.

Their guy was pretty good. The guy was tough to deal with. Mid to upper 80's, guy had a funny arm action and really didn't have very good stuff in the first three innings, I was disappointed with what we did with him in those first three innings but then all of the sudden he started throwing a pretty dominant cutter for three or four innings and he got to pitch on the top side because we gave up some big runs. It was one of those games that you're irritated by. It was a bad luck game. We didn't play great and they beat us 9-4 in what looks like they handled us but they just seemed to get a lot more of the baseball breaks than we did.  Continue Reading This Post >>

On this week's episode Sam and Teddy discuss Aggie football and the NFL, Aggie softball's drive for a regular season title, Aggie baseball and hand out our top performer award for the week.

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DENVER, CO New Mexico State’s Staci Rodriguez has been named the Western Athletic Conference Hitter for April 22-28. This is the third honor of the season and of her career for Rodriguez.

Rodriguez, a sophomore outfielder from Paramount, Calif., led New Mexico State to a 3-0 record against Seattle U last week to remain atop the WAC standings. She posted a .750 batting average, a .800 on-base percentage and an astounding 2.000 slugging percentage with a double, three home runs and eight RBI over the three games. In Friday night’s series opener, she was 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI. In the come-from-behind win over the Redhawks in the series finale, Rodriguez hit two three-run home runs. With 20 bombs this season, Rodriguez ranks second at New Mexico State and seventh in the WAC in single-season home runs. With the eight RBI last week, she is now tied for second place at NM State and tied for 10th in the WAC in single-season RBI with 62.

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State baseball team lost an offensive battle to UT-Arlington, 13-11, on Sunday afternoon at Presley Askew Field. The team’s combined 24 runs came on a combined 32 hits, 18 for Arlington and 14 for NM State.

The Aggies fall to 24-21 on the season while the Mavericks improve to 24-20. NM State now sits at .500, 9-9, in WAC play. Arlington, meanwhile, jumps into a tie for first place in the conference at 12-6.

The top third of the Aggie lineup, right fielder Michael Medina, left fielder Quinnton Mack and catcher Tanner Rust, each went 2-for-4 on the afternoon. Senior center fielder Kyle Phillips also went 2-for-4, including hitting his fifth home run of the season and his second triple. Phillips also scored three runs for NM State.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State softball team battled for a two-game sweep over the third-place Seattle Redhawks on Saturday, April, 27, in a Western Athletic Conference battle. The Senior Weekend doubleheader ended with a 2-0 win in game one and a late-inning rally in game two for a 9-7 win to sweep the series.

Senior Teresa Conrad broke out with a walk-off three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh to lift NM State to a 9-7 win over the Redhawks after sophomore Staci Rodriguez hit two three-RBI bombs in the game.

“I am extremely proud of this team and how they came out and battled,” head coach Kathy Rodolph said. “It ended up being an outstanding Senior Weekend for our team and our seniors really proved to be great leaders for this team, great ambassadors to New Mexico State University and I am very proud.”

NM State finished game one with a fifth-inning two-RBI single by Kelsey Dodd after both teams were scoreless through the first four and a half innings.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State baseball team bounced back and run-ruled UT- Arlington 11-1 in seven innings at Presley Askew Field, Saturday, April 27. The Aggies are now 24-20 on the year and 9-8 in Western Athletic Conference play. UTA falls to 23-20 and 11-6 in conference play.

Senior starter Ryan Beck threw a complete-game three hitter as he allowed just one run to go along with eight strikeouts. This is the second time this season Beck has posted at least 8 K’s in a game after he tallied 10 strikeouts against Alabama A&M on March 16. Beck also has 67 strikeouts on the year and 289 on his career, placing him just one strikeout behind former Aggie Jaime Mendes (1992-95) for the No. 2 spot on the all-time strikeout list at NM State. He is now No. 3 on the all-time list at NM State with 24 career wins.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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,strong>LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State baseball team dropped its series opener versus UT-Arlington, 9-5, Friday night at Presley Askew Field. The loss drops the Aggies to 23-20 overall and 8-8 in WAC play. The Mavericks improve to 23-19 and 11-5 in the WAC.

NM State equaled Arlington with 10 hits and had only one error to the Maverick’s two. But while Arlington capitalized on its scoring chances with timely hits, the Aggies struggled with men on base, finishing with a total of nine runners left on base.

NM State’s 1-2 hitters in the lineup, right fielder Michael Medina and second baseman Kent Blackstone, both went 2-for-5 on the night. Medina also finished with two RBIs to lead the Aggies.

On the mound, Aggie right-hander Adam Mott suffered his fourth loss of the season after putting in over six innings of work. Mott, who struck out eight batters while only walking two, now stands at 5-4 for the season.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A powerful first inning lifted the New Mexico State softball team to an 8-0 win over the Seattle U Redhawks in six innings on Friday evening, April 26. NM State improves to 33-15 this season and 14-2 in Western Athletic Conference play.

Sophomore Staci Rodriguez hit her 18th home run of the year, claiming the second spot in the Aggie record books for home runs in a single season. She finished the day going 3-for-3 with two singles and two RBI. The Aggies finished the day with nine hits and eight runs. Five Aggies walked their way on base and the NM State defense held five Seattle U runners on base.

Fellow sophomore Malena Padilla was 2-for-4 with an RBI double in the first and a two-RBI single in the bottom of the sixth. Padilla now has six doubles under her belt this season.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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DENVER, CO - New Mexico State men’s tennis players Daniel Fernandez, Luis Fernandez and Marc Westgate each collected All-Western Athletic Conference accolades for the 2013 spring season, the conference office announced Thursday.

Fernandez, a freshman from Aguascalientes, Mexico, was named WAC Freshman of the Year and first team All-WAC for his work on the court. Senior Luis Fernandez was named All-WAC second team for singles, while he and junior Marc Westgate were named second team all-conference for doubles play.
Fernandez finished the regular season 15-4 in singles overall and 4-0 in WAC play, winning each of his conference matches in straight sets. He was named WAC Player of the Week twice during the spring and helped the Aggies to a 13-8 season record, 3-2 in league play.  Continue Reading This Post >>