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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Two big innings in the middle of the game led the New Mexico State softball team to a 5-1 win in the series opener against Western Athletic Conference opponent UT Arlington on Friday, April 5.

The Aggies improve to 24-13 on the season and 6-1 in conference play with their eighth consecutive win.

“I think Alex (Newman) did a great job staying in the game and doing what needed to be done in the circle,” head coach Kathy Rodolph said. “I think that she kept us in the game until we were able to pick it up offensively and then Emma (Adams) and Kelsey (Dodd) came up with some key hits for us. I think it was a great way to start the series, and we are looking forward to tomorrow.”

Newman went the distance in the circle with just four hits allowed and only one unearned run on the day. She had two strikeouts and did not allow a single walk to her 26 batters faced. Newman improves her pitching record to 12-8 this season with her eighth complete game this season.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State baseball team defeated Dallas Baptist 16-5 in seven innings at Presley Askew Field, Friday, April 5. The Aggies are now 17-14 on the year and 3-4 in Western Athletic Conference play, while the Patriots fall to 16-14 on the season and 4-3 in league play.

The Aggies scored 16 runs on 15 hits with senior Bobby Lecount leading the offense going 2-of-3 at the dish with a home run and five RBIs. Senior shortstop Parker Hipp also had a good night with the bat as he finished the evening going 2-of-4 with a walk, two RBIs and three runs scored.

Senior starting pitcher Adam Mott earned the win after working 6.0 innings, striking out four batters and giving up four runs. The first two of those four runs came in the top of the first to give DBU a 2-0 lead, but the Aggies tied it up in the bottom of the inning when Lecount tallied a two-RBI double to centerfield.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State’s Lauren DeVoe was the nation’s top rider in Horsemanship during March. DeVoe went 3-0 in Horsemanship for the Aggies last month and was named Most Outstanding Player in Horsemanship for the Skyhawk Invitational.

She went 2-0 at the inaugural tournament in Martin, Tenn., picking up wins over South Dakota State and Fresno State. DeVoe was recently recognized for her academic success at the Wells Fargo Academic Honor Night and the Crimson & White Scholar Banquet. She was also named a first team honor roll member in early April.

The Aggies will compete at the National Collegiate Equestrian Championships, April 18-20 in Waco, Texas.

On this week's episode Sam and Teddy discuss Aggie football spring practice and talk about some key players. We also discuss Aggie baseball and Aggie softball and hand out our top performer award.

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The National Collegiate Equestrian Association announced Thursday the 2013 National Collegiate Equestrian Association’s Honor Roll, as 11 New Mexico State Equestrian riders earned the honor. The Aggies had six first-team selections, one second-team pick and two honorable mention honorees.

"We are proud to have so many of our student-athletes nationally recognized for their academic success,” head coach Robin Morris-Walters said. “Finding success in the classroom as well as in the competition arena takes a high level of dedication and commitment. These ladies exemplify what it means to be a student-athlete at NM State."

Six Hunter Seat riders and five Western riders from NM State were named to the honor roll.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State soccer head coach Blair Quinn has signed forward/midfielder Salina Lucero to a National Letter of Intent. She becomes the eighth member of the Class of 2013.

Lucero joins midfielder/forward Gabby Campbell, defender Melissa Canizalez, goalkeeper Tayler Hammack, forward Devin Hart, defender/midfielder Stephanie Petre, goalkeeper Taylor Rice and defender Maggie Sabik in the class.

"We've added Salina to the class and are very excited about it," Quinn said. "She is really good at pressing the other team's defenders into turnovers and causing problems. Salina is kind of like the fly at the barbeque. She is just annoying and buzzing around and buzzing around, and she causes problems. She is going to be a really good addition to our front line in terms of her quickness and her overall energy level."  Continue Reading This Post >>

bleedCrimson.net: A good win for the team last night against UNM. It's always good to get a rivalry win and you've had some success against them recently winning six of seven and nine of the past 13.
Rocky Ward: We're winning some important games. We're just not winning some of the ones we need. The game last night was good. It was good to see the ball leave the stadium. It was good to beat the Lobos. It was good to do it with power through the home run. That's been a long-running tradition. We've out-homered them pretty consistently in our contests. To get some quality pitching down the stretch and pitch around some challenges, it was just a good character-building game.

Quinnton Mack was out, my starting left fielder, so Brandon Cooper gets his first start as an Aggie in left and had really a plus-plus play in the first or second. Guys that hadn't been full-time starters, Joe Koerper hadn't gotten a lot of playing time lately got a start at first, Derek Umphres was out with a wrist injury. It wasn't my standard lineup that we'd been using and we kind of attacked them. Sometimes in baseball you can have game plans and sometimes you can't. We started Alex Foulon, he hadn't started since Blackstone had been back and he played well, had a key base hit early in the game. We started those three right-handed hitters with the idea that we had Blackston, Paulson and Haskins available as left-handers when they went to right-handed pitchers. The game plan kind of came together. It was overall a good win.

We used Omseth who had a little bit of a short outing this weekend. He came in and got some outs for us and when he got in trouble we had a chance to get Ryan Beck back to the mound after he had a real bad outing in his last out against Bakersfield. It's good to get a guy back on the horse, especially a guy like that who took a pretty good licking that had been one of the leaders on the ball club. He came in and got us out of a nobody out bases loaded jam. We got a good close out of Evan Mott and Bradley. Bradley has become pretty comfortable in the closing role. We scored the four in the bottom of the eighth that made it a non-save situation but that's still the New Mexico game. Not that long ago they scored six or seven late to beat us and we've done the same thing to them. There's some long running history of some crazy games between us. A five-run lead in the ninth to me is a close and emotionally it was a close. Just because it didn't count as a save doesn't mean it doesn't feel like it.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State baseball team (16-14) used three home runs to pick up a 10-5 win over Rio Grande Rival New Mexico (13-14), Monday, April 1 at Presley Askew Field.

Junior Tanner Rust got the Aggie bats going with a two-run shot in the bottom of the first to give his team its first lead of the game. After the Lobos scored two runs in the top of the second and another in the third, NM State regained the lead in the bottom of the third when senior short stop Parker Hipp and senior Bobby Lecount combined for back-to-back home runs.

Hipp hit a three-run blast over the right field wall and senior Bobby Lecount followed up with a solo-shot to the opposite field marking his team-high seventh homer of the season.

“We swung the bats really well and it was good to see some balls leave Presley Askew,” head coach Rocky Ward said. “We got really good bullpen relief after Collins gutted it out for us. Ryan Beck’s performance was great as well.”  Continue Reading This Post >>