Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - NM State and Fresno State have agreed to an additional game scheduled for 2024, the schools announced in a joint release Thursday.

The Aggies and Bulldogs will play on Oct. 5, 2024, at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, Calif.

NM State is 1-18-0 all-time against the Bulldogs. The two programs most recently squared off in 2019, when the Aggies hosted Fresno State inside Aggie Memorial Stadium.

The current home-and-home series continues next season, as NM State heads to Fresno State for an Oct. 24, 2020, showdown. The Aggies last took a road trip to Fresno, Calif., during the 2010 campaign.

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

TEMPE, AZ - The Aggies took the nationally ranked Sun Devils to the wire, but could not complete the upset Tuesday night under the lights at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.

NM State (8-1) lost, 6-5, in extras, stringing together rallies in the top of the eighth and ninth innings before #8 Arizona State (6-3) won the ballgame on a walk-off walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the tenth.

HOW IT HAPPENED
NM State took the bullpen route right out of the gate Tuesday. Redshirt junior lefty Frank Dickson Jr. made the start in the midweek contest before giving way to four Aggie relievers,

Dickson Jr. tossed the game's first two frames, limiting the nationally ranked Sun Devils to one run on two hits while striking out one. Seniors Alex Pinedo and Aldo Fernandez followed and were flat-out dominant.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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DENVER, CO - NM State’s Nick Gonzales has been named TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Hitter of the Week for Feb. 17 – Feb. 23.

Gonzales, a junior infielder from Vail, Ariz., wins the honor for the second time in as many weeks after hitting .563 with a 1.313 slugging percentage in a four-game sweep of Iona. With pitchers around the country aware of his dangerous bat, the Gaels’ pitchers didn’t give him a lot to hit over the first three games, walking him four times but still allowing him to score four runs and drive in a pair. The first-round prospect was given plenty in Sunday’s finale and he took advantage, hitting for the cycle with an additional home run, five runs scored and seven RBIs in an 18-4 win. Holding a 74-game on-base streak dating back to the 2018 season, he is hitting .567 on the season with seven home runs, 26 RBIs and a 1.433 slugging percentage.

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - It's Nick Gonzales' world; we just live in it.

The junior infielder wowed yet again, hitting for the cycle, socking two home runs and carrying the Aggies to an 18-4 series-sweeping win over Iona Sunday afternoon at Presley Askew Field.

NM State and first-year head coach Mike Kirby are now a perfect 8-0 through their first two four-game sets of the year. The squad is one win shy of matching the best season-opening start (9-0) in program history, which most recently came in 2011.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Aggies scored early and often. It was none other than Gonzales who delivered the first blow.

He clobbered a 2-1 pitch over the left field wall in his opening at-bat, putting the Aggies ahead, 2-0, in the bottom half of the first.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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EDINBURG, TX - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team dropped a 74-63 Western Athletic Conference matchup at UT Rio Grande Valley on Saturday afternoon. UTRGV shot 49.1 percent from the floor.

Frehsman Soufia Inoussa scored a career-high 16 points on 3-4 shooting from three.

The first quarter went back-and-forth with the two teams tied 8-8 at the 4:57 mark, However, the Aggies (9-17, 6-7 WAC) struggled down the stretch and trailed 21-14 at the end of one. UT Rio Grande Valley (11-15, 6-7) hit four three-pointers in the quarter.

After the Vaqueros stretched their lead to 26-14, NM state battled back to make it a six-point game, 26-20, with 5:22 to go in the first half. However, UTRGV closed the half strong and led 36-36 at the half.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Death. Texas. NM State winning WAC titles.

Those have been life's certainties in Las Cruces in recent memory and it was still the case Saturday night.

On pace to score just 40 points midway through the opening stanza, the rv/— Aggies finally managed to shake off their exceptionally slow start on offense by using an 11-0 run to take the lead for good and NM State hoisted its third WAC regular season championship trophy in as many seasons with a 78-62 come-from-behind triumph over UTRGV.

Jabari Rice came through with a team-high 20 points and Terrell Brown added 18 more off the bench for the Aggies who now own the nation's longest active winning streak at 16 games.

FIRST HALF  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

EL PASO, TX - The New Mexico State softball team continued its torrid streak at the plate in a 10-2 run-rule win over Omaha on Saturday afternoon at the UTEP Invitational in El Paso. This was the Aggies second run-rule win in El Paso this weekend.

Omaha (6-6) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top half of the first and held the Aggies (8-3) scoreless in the bottom half of the inning. Then, in the bottom of the second inning, the bats came alive. After Chloe Rivas stole home, freshman Hope Banales tripled and brought in a run before scoring on Hailey Tanori’s sac fly for a 3-0 Aggie lead heading into the third.

Both teams were held scoreless in the third and the Aggies also held the Mavericks scoreless in the top of the fourth. NM State scratched one more run across in the bottom of fourth courtesy of a Jeanelle Medina double that scored Banales to extend the lead to 4-1.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Aggies started the day with five wins and finished it with seven.

NM State rolled to two victories Saturday at Presley Askew Field, taking down Iona (0-6) with a 9-6 win in game one before securing an 8-1 triumph in the nightcap.

The Aggies improve to 7-0 on the season with the duo of wins, matching their best start to a campaign since 2011 when NM State opened the year with nine straight wins.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Game One
NM State, thanks to two freshmen, struck first with runs in the bottom of the second inning. Infielder Mark McNelly and outfielder Zerek Saenz each contributed an RBI to put the Aggies ahead, 2-0.

Junior starter Lyle Hibbitts, meanwhile, quieted Iona's bats across the first four innings, striking out three. The Gaels got to him for three runs in the top of the fifth, however, knocking him out of the ballgame.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - 5-0.

The Aggies' winning streak continued Friday afternoon at Presley Askew Field with a 7-5 victory over Iona (0-4). Junior infielder Nick Gonzales clobbered his fifth homer of the year, and seniors Mitchell Allen and Alex Reyes quieted the Gaels' bats across the final four innings of the ballgame.

NM State is undefeated through its first five contests of the 2020 campaign. The Aggies opened last season with six consecutive wins.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Gaels got to starting pitcher Chance Hroch early. Iona's Jake Liberatore hit the very first pitch of the game over the wall in left to put the Gaels ahead, 1-0.

The lead would not last long, though, as Gonzales stepped up to the plate in the bottom half of the first and smoked an 0-1 pitch over the fence in left center. The reigning National Player of the Week has hit a home run in four of the Aggies' five games this season.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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DENVER, CO - After maintaining his perfect record in singles action through the 2020 season, NM State men's tennis freshman Jordy Visser was named the WAC Men's Tennis Singles Player of the Week it was announced by the league office in a press release issued Tuesday morning.

Visser, who hails from Bemmel, Netherlands, picked up a pair of singles triumphs Saturday and helped NM State go 1-1 in their two matches on the day.

Against Southland Conference foe Abilene Christian Saturday morning, Visser matched up with the Wildcats' Dimitrios Azoidis in flight two and emerged with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 come-from-behind win to keep the Aggies in contention. Visser's win helped NM State pull within one of the Wildcats before ultimately falling, 4-3.   Continue Reading This Post >>