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COLUMBIA, S.C. - The National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) and The Chronicle of the Horse have announced this year’s top horses in collegiate equestrian. New Mexico State landed two horses on this list; Equitation over Fences horse Aridus, donated by Phil & Megan Dawson and Horsemanship horse Totally Bodacious, donated by Bonnie Elber were honored.

The top ten horses were selected from each of the four events that the NCEA competes in – Reining, Horsemanship, Equitation on the Flat, and Equitation Over Fences.

“We take pride in having quality equine athletes as part of our team because in our sport having quality horses is just as important as having quality student-athletes,” head coach Robin Morris-Walters said.  Continue Reading This Post >>

On this week's episode Sam and Teddy discuss Aggie football player Miles Washington's injury, Aggie baseball, Aggie softball (and the WAC) and hand out our top performer award for the week.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The New Mexico State baseball team (19-18) fell 13-6 to in-state rival New Mexico (20-17) on a cold and extremely windy day in Albuquerque, Wednesday, April 17. NM State split the series with the Rio Grande Rivals this year and is now 4-2 against the Lobos in the last two years.

The Aggies opened the game with a solo home run by junior catcher Tanner Rust to take an early 1-0 lead but UNM crossed the plate twice in the bottom of the inning. NM State would not regain the lead again as the Lobos scored two more runs in the bottom of the second to take a 4-1 lead.

Another solo-shot by Rust in the top of the third made it a 4-2 game but UNM scored two more in the bottom of the third going up by the score of 6-2. NM State went into the fifth inning down 7-2 but a two-RBI single by senior Kyle Phillips squeezed the Lobo lead to 7-4.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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Colorado Springs, CO- New Mexico State softball player Amber Olive was recently awarded with the annual All-American Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year award, The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) announced earlier this month.

The award, in its 34th year of existence, recognizes a student-athlete’s dedication to strength training and conditioning.

Olive was selected by NM State strength coach Tony McClure and was among 229 collegiate and high school athletes from 98 schools with the award.

“Entering her senior season, Amber Olive has been a catalyst and leader to NM State softball success,” McClure said. “From her very first day as a freshman to the present, Amber has led by example.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

bleedCrimson.net: Your thoughts on the weekend series with Sacramento State?
Rocky Ward: Obviously we're disappointed that we lost two out of three. Sacramento played well. We didn't play poorly but we didn't play great. We just kind of played average baseball and they played pretty good. I was disappointed by it but not surprised by it. I think that Sacramento is like a lot of guys in the league. They've got a pretty good ball club, they've got enough talent to beat you and you've got to play well to win.

bc.net: Going back to yesterday's loss obviously the double plays hurt but specifically the third inning and the seventh inning were the key innings in the game offensively.
RW: Yeah, it's one of those deals as a coach where I thought I managed the Sunday game against Dallas Baptist great and it's not just about making decisions but it's about when you make the decisions that they work. I didn't move my runners on the Rust double play early part of it [in the third inning] because Goldstrom isn't a great runner on the back side and I had Michael Medina on the front side who I thought would steal third easily but if they threw to second and Tanner swings through the pitch then we end up with a man at third and two outs and we've shot ourselves in the foot. Every time you get two strikes on a hitter you need to do what you can to protect them because they have to swing at a strike. They can hit into a double play and not have a whole lot of control over it. It was a chance to break it open because you had the middle of the lineup coming and it's one of the weaknesses of having Jory in the two hole. He's performed well there and he can't change the fact that he's not a very good runner compared to Blackstone in the two hole. The net result on an individual basis, Kent Blackstone moving down in the lineup to where Jory was hitting has helped both guys individually but it didn't help the way the team offense was put together. If Blackstone had been that runner then we would have run earlier before we got to two strikes. It's just one of those things. You can't fix everything and Tanner, that's the only negative you can look at with his record. He's hit into too many double plays, he leads the team into that category. Part of it is he puts the ball in play a lot and he hits the ball pretty hard. When he hits it at them it's a pretty easy double play because the timing.

The seventh, it was okay. Parker hits into the double play, the ball is hit hard but we rebuild the inning and get the bases loaded two outs and Kyle got a pitch to hit, he just didn't get quite enough of it and flew out to right. You can say that about any baseball game I guess. The double play in baseball is like a turnover in football. It always hurts you, it always flips momentum to the opponent and at the same time there's times when you can't do anything about it.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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DENVER, CO - New Mexico State’s Daniel Fernandez has been named the Western Athletic Conference Men’s Tennis Players of the Week for the week of April 8-14.

Fernandez, a freshman from Aguascalientes, Mexico (Tec de Monterrey), extended his win streak to six matches and moved to a perfect 4-0 n WAC play at the on the No. 2 court after a 2-0 weekend record. He defeated both his WAC opponents in straight sets and battled a tough first set against Zach Kosanke of Seattle U (75, 6-3) before coming up with the two-game win. He defeated Utah State’s Fredrik Peterson, 6-1, 6-4. Fernandez split his weekend in doubles play with partner Paul Denele at the No. 3 spot. The Aggie duo knocked off Flavio Malagutti and Kyle Rapp of Seattle U, 8-5 on Friday, but fell in a close 8-6 decision to the pair from Utah State for just his third loss in doubles play this season. Fernandez is 12-3 at the No. 3 spot in double play this season and improves to 15-4 in singles play and 11-2 at the second position.

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DENVER, CO - New Mexico State’s Staci Rodriguez has been named the Western Athletic Conference Hitter for April 8-14. This is the second honor of the season and her career for Rodriguez.

Rodriguez, a sophomore outfielder from Paramount, Calif., led New Mexico State to a 4-1 record last week, including a sweep of UTSA and a win over No. 17 Arizona. She hit .615 (8-for-13) with a double, three home runs and seven RBI on the week. She posted a 1.385 slugging percentage and a .688 on-base percentage. Rodriguez had a hit in each conference game and went 3-for-3 in game two of the Aggies’ mid-week series against the Wildcats. Her three home runs last week extended her season total to 16, which ties for third in the NM State single-season record books..

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Notching its third straight sweep in Western Athletic Conference play, the New Mexico State softball team worked for a 7-1 win over UTSA on Saturday afternoon, April 13, and came back in game two for a late-inning home run by sophomore Staci Rodriguez to beat the Roadrunners 3-2. NM State improves to 30-14 this season and 11-1 in WAC play with the wins.

Freshman catcher Tatum Reedy finished the day going 2-for-3 with one run of her own and two RBI. She hit her first home run as an Aggie in game one, helping the Aggies to the 7-1 win. While going 3-for-6 on the day, Rodriguez lifted NM State to the win in game two with two RBI and seven total bases.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Aggies tallied nine hits but scored only four times falling 16-4 to Sacramento State at Presley Askew Field, Saturday, April 13. New Mexico State falls to 19-16 on the year and 5-6 in Western Athletic Conference play. The Hornets improved to 20-15 on the season and 6-5 in league play.

The Aggies took the first lead of the game when senior Kyle Phillips scored on a solo shot over the right field wall. It was his fourth home run on the year as after he finished the evening going 1-of-3 at the dish. Phillips is hitting .307 on the year with a .504 slugging percentage.

Starting pitcher Casey Collins working 3.2 innings was credited with the loss after allowing seven runs to score, five of them earned. Senior Michael Ormseth came in to relieve Collins and threw for 2.1 innings striking out four batters and allowing four runs to score.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Senior Tanner Rust hit a walk-off single in the bottom of ninth to boost the New Mexico State baseball team (19-15, 5-5 WAC) to a 5-4 win over Sacramento State (19-15, 5-5 WAC) at Presley Askew Field, Friday, April 12.

The Aggies had a 4-3 heading into the ninth and Sacramento State tied it up after a batter got on base by being hit by a pitch, advancing to second on a stolen base and reaching third on a wild pitch. The Hornet runner scored on a single through the left side taking the game to 4-4.

Senior reliever Evan Mott was the first pitcher to enter the game in the top of the ninth and tallied two outs before junior Christopher Bradley allowed a walk, a hit and a run. Senior Michael Ormseth came in to get the final out of the top of the ninth on a 1-3 putout and picked up the win. He is now 3-2 on the season.   Continue Reading This Post >>