Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State baseball team struggled offensively against Texas State losing 10-3 at Presley Askew Field, Saturday, March 23. The series is now tied with the rubber-match scheduled for Sunday, March 24 at 1:05 p.m. (MT).

The Aggies fall to 13-11 overall and 1-1 in Western Athletic Conference play after posting three runs on six hits while committing three errors. Texas State (8-14, 1-1 WAC) tallied 10 runs on 13 hits with only one error.

It seemed like it would be a pitcher’s dual with no runs crossing the plate for the first three innings. NM State starting pitcher senior Ryan Beck was credited with the loss as he allowed four earned runs in 4.1 innings of work. He is now 4-1 on the season.   Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

SAN JOSE, CA - The five-game winning streak and season came to end for the New Mexico State men's basketball team in an NCAA Tournament second-round game. Atlantic-10 champion and No. 4 seeded Saint Louis proved too much for the WAC Tournament champion and No. 13 seed Aggies, who were saddled with a 64-44 defeat in the Midwest Region contest.

“I told the guys, as the days go by the pain subsides,” NM State coach Marvin Menzies said. “They'll be able to handle it and hold their heads up high. They're WAC champions.

“We just got beat. We got beat by a better team, a team with more experience. That's just the way it went.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

Gameday. The Aggies' hopes of winning a tournament game or two begin today at 11:10 a.m. PDT in San Jose. The Aggies take on the Billikens of Saint Louis, a team that many have selected as a darkhorse to reach the Final Four. The Aggies would like to have something to say about that as they look to pull off a 13-4 upset.

We had a chance to speak briefly with Coach Menzies yesterday after their open practice and he had this to say about the team's mindset, the coaching staff's preparedness after making a third trip to the tournament and also Tyrone Watson's health:

"I think they're comfortable, I think they're ready to play. You always want the best team to win and I think that's going to happen tomorrow, I think whoever the best team is is going to win. I think from our side we're ready to roll. Guys are comfortable, relaxed and prepared. It'll be fun.'

"I think so. I think every year you gain a little experience on how you want to handle the dynamics of the tournament and the pomp and circumstance that comes with the NCAA March Madness. You gain a little knowledge every time you take a trip and hopefully it aids you in being productive."

"He's getting close. The question is is his close better than Renaldo and Remi's good. It's all about the team and about having the most productive players on the floor based off of what we can get out of the guys that are on the floor."

There are a few keys to this game for the Aggies. Number one, take care of the basketball. The Aggies cannot afford to turn the ball over against a Billiken team that averages nearly eight steals per game. In the Billiken's wins they are forcing 15.5 turnovers per game and converting those into 18.8 points. That's just over 27 percent of their scoring. However, in their six losses they've only forced opponents into 12.3 turnovers per game and more importantly just 9.5 points off of those turnovers.

Second, the Aggies need to take care of the glass. The Aggies have an advantage on the boards. Saint Louis is not a great rebounding team averaging 29.6 rebounds per game with a rebounding percentage of just 49.7 percent while the Aggies average 35.1 rebounds per game with a rebounding percentage of 55.3 percent.

Third, the Aggies need to use their length and athleticism to bother the Saint Louis shooters and also disrupt their interior game with the presence of Sim Bhullar and Renaldo Dixon. The Aggies average 5.5 blocks per game and like every other team the Aggies have faced this season, their opponents have not seen a player like Sim Bhullar.

The Aggies' big three of Sim Bhullar, Daniel Mullings and Bandja Sy need to have a good game offensively with Bandja as the x-factor. If Sy scores between 15 and 20 points in the game we feel very strongly that the Aggies will be victorious.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In the final game of the Rio Grande Rivalry Series, the New Mexico State softball team worked for a 2-0 win over the New Mexico Lobos on Tuesday, March 19. The Aggies take the rivalry series 2-1 and move to 16-12 on the season.

The Aggies picked up two runs off five hits and held the Lobos to just three hits on the day. In the circle, junior Celisha Walker went 2.2 innings without allowing a hit. She had just one walk before senior Alex Newman came in to close out the game and pick up her eighth win of the season. She worked 4.1 innings and allowed three hits with one strikeout.  Continue Reading This Post >>

On this week's episode Sam and Teddy preview the Aggies' NCAA Tournament game against Saint Louis.

bleedCrimson.net: You had a big weekend offensively scoring 79 runs in four games, three of those being seven inning games.
Rocky Ward: We got done what we needed to get done. They weren't very good. I was pretty pleased with the weekend overall. You still have to go get it done. A lot of those big innings, they dropped fly balls and didn't make some plays, that sort of thing that has a tendency to extend innings and in some cases that has been a little bit of our issue and when you give up four or five out innings not only do they score a lot, they put a lot of pressure on the pitch count and it translates into earned runs later in the game because you don't have as many quality pitches to throw at the guys. Overall it was a good weekend and we did what we needed to do.

When you look at the season to date the only real disappointment is letting one of those games against Milwaukee get away. I don't think Milwaukee is going to be the next Kent State, I'm not saying that but I didn't think Kent State was going to be an Omaha team either. They were a pretty good ball club and they're going to win a lot of games when they get back home. That was the only real disappointing loss from a reality standpoint. We played well enough to beat Illinois but made a defensive mistake that cost us that game. Made a defensive mistake against North Carolina State that cost us a game and the same thing against Oklahoma but realistically those are all real high level competitors. When you look at the year, at 12-10, looking back to it 13-9 would have been acceptable after seeing those teams and playing in the conditions we played in. You feel like at this stage you're one game away.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

DENVER, CO - New Mexico State infielder Michael Paulson has been named the Western Athletic Conference Baseball Hitter of the Week, for the week of March 11-17.

Paulson, a junior from Sammamish, Wash. (Curtis HS), helped the Aggies to a 4-2 record last week with a four-game series sweep over Alabama A&M. Paulson hit .533 (8-for-15) with only a single strikeout over the six games. He also tallied four walks, seven RBI, four doubles, scored seven runs and a stolen base.  Continue Reading This Post >>