Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

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 >>

(This is the fortieth installment of Bill Harty’s game recaps as part of The Mid Majority ninth season taking readers to mid-major college basketball games around the country. Visit midmajority.com to find out more about this group-sourced effort to spread the word about the many fine basketball programs around the country that are having success on and off the court while generally not having access to the resources brought to athletic programs by big-time college football. Bill will be recapping most Aggie home games, and the occasional road foray, for both The Mid Majority and bleedCrimson.net.)

I was sure at the end of my nineteen-game week in Las Vegas (the WCC final, all 18 M/W WAC tournament games) that my season was over. I was so tired that I slept the entire trip on the plane home, through the St. Patrick’s Day party at my spouse’s college roommate’s home, and through the family birthday dinner at my sister’s. But late that night, I checked on whether bleedcrimson.net, where my NMSU recaps are published, could get us media credentials for San Jose, where the Aggies were to meet A-10 champion Saint Louis. I had an orphaned free ticket on Southwest that I had been trying to use for over a year; it would expire forever in April. So I gave that a shot and, surprise (!), there was a seat available to get to San Jose. I checked my frequent hotel stayer programs and found that I had enough points for a four-night stay. So, I made the decision that fate was taking me to the NCAA Tournament, reserved a small rental car, obtained the ok for three more days of annual leave, and headed to California. Here’s a snapshot of the east side of the Franklin Mountains from the car on the way to the El Paso airport.   Continue Reading This Post >>

(This is the thirty-ninth installment of Bill Harty’s game recaps as part of The Mid Majority ninth season taking readers to mid-major college basketball games around the country. Visit midmajority.com to find out more about this group-sourced effort to spread the word about the many fine basketball programs around the country that are having success on and off the court while generally not having access to the resources brought to athletic programs by big-time college football. Bill will be recapping most Aggie home games, and the occasional road foray, for both The Mid Majority and bleedCrimson.net.)

Following a Friday of upsets in the WAC Tournament, the championship game matched the third-seeded New Mexico State Aggies (23-10, 14-4 WAC) and the fourth-seeded University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks (19-12, 11-7 WAC). The regular season games between these teams were the first of the conference season for each, a December 29 Maverick 68-47 victory in Arlington, and the final game of the regular season just a week ago, a March 9 Aggie 69-66 victory in Las Cruces. The Aggies reached the final by defeating Idaho, 65-49, and Texas State, 74-65. The Mavericks advanced with wins over Utah State, 83-78, and UTSA, 69-53.   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 >>

Box Score (PDF)

In a defensive struggle the Aggies survived a 10 minute field goal drought in the second half to hang on for a 64-55 victory over UT-Arlington to secure their second consecutive WAC tournament title and third in the past four years.

Sim Bhullar finished with 16 points and 15 rebounds and Daniel Mullings sealed the victory with an emphatic dunk with seven seconds to send New Mexico State to their 20th trip to the NCAA Tournament.  Continue Reading This Post >>

(This is the thirty-eighth installment of Bill Harty’s game recaps as part of The Mid Majority ninth season taking readers to mid-major college basketball games around the country. Visit midmajority.com to find out more about this group-sourced effort to spread the word about the many fine basketball programs around the country that are having success on and off the court while generally not having access to the resources brought to athletic programs by big-time college football. Bill will be recapping most Aggie home games, and the occasional road foray, for both The Mid Majority and bleedCrimson.net.)

Game 7, the first semifinal, of the WAC tournament pitted third seed New Mexico State, a 65-49 winner against Idaho in the tournament’s quarterfinals, against seventh seed Texas State. Texas State began the tournament with a defeat of Seattle, 68-56, in Tuesday’s first round; their quarterfinal was a big upset, defeating regular season co-champion and tournament second-seed Denver, 72-68, led by forward Joel Wright’s thirty-two point effort. The Aggies swept the Bobcats in their regular season meetings, first in Las Cruces, 78-67, and then in San Marcos, 86-72.   Continue Reading This Post >>

(This is the thirty-seventh installment of Bill Harty’s game recaps as part of The Mid Majority ninth season taking readers to mid-major college basketball games around the country. Visit midmajority.com to find out more about this group-sourced effort to spread the word about the many fine basketball programs around the country that are having success on and off the court while generally not having access to the resources brought to athletic programs by big-time college football. Bill will be recapping most Aggie home games, and the occasional road foray, for both The Mid Majority and bleedCrimson.net.)

In the first quarterfinal of this year’s WAC men’s basketball tournament, the third-seeded New Mexico State Aggies played the sixth-seed, the Idaho Vandals. New Mexico State and Idaho are the only two schools that were in the WAC last year that will return next year, so this matchup is what passes for continuity in WAC basketball these days. The Aggies (21-10 overall, 14-4 WAC) have had two tough games against the Vandals (12-17, 7-11 WAC) this season, winning the January contest in Moscow 71-70 on a free throw by guard Daniel Mullings with 3.5 seconds remaining. The Las Cruces game in February was also taken by the Aggies, 76-74, on a pair of Mullings free throws with fourteen seconds remaining.   Continue Reading This Post >>

Box Score (PDF) | Postgame Comments (Paul Weir)  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

Box Score (PDF)

LAS VEGAS, NV -The New Mexico State men's basketball team opened the 2013 WAC Tournament with a 65-49 win over Idaho in the tournament quarterfinals. Sophomore guard Daniel Mullings scored a game-high 23 points.  Continue Reading This Post >>