New Mexico Sports

(Information Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The New Mexico State women’s golf team looks for its 10th appearance at NCAA Championships when it travels to Stanford, Calif., for the NCAA Stanford Regional as the 15 -seed from May 10-12 at Stanford Golf Course. Joining NM State at the Stanford Regional at Stanford Golf Course

BOULDER CITY, Nevada – The NMSU women’s golf team continues to make history, and now they have their sights on the NCAA Tournament. Wednesday in Boulder City, Nevada, NMSU captured its 10th WAC Championship in program history. ABC-7 caught up with the team as they returned to the Borderland Thursday at the El Paso International

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – New Mexico State Head Football Coach Doug Martin has been coaching for 40 years. But there is no hesitation is voice when he calls Julian Edelman the most competitive person he’s ever coached, but also ever met. “I’ve coached some competitive players, quite a few NFL players. But he is

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) OREM, Utah – The New Mexico State volleyball team hit .341 and cruised to a 25-18, 25-16, 25-17 sweep of Chicago State in a Western Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal match at Lockhart Arena in Orem, Utah, on Friday night.   The Aggies advanced to the WAC Championship match for the third-straight year.   NM State (16-1)

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – After not having a fall football season in 2020 due to Covid-19, the NMSU Aggies are back. Wednesday, NMSU announced the 2021 schedule for the fall football season. The Aggies will play a total of 12 games, 5 at home, 7 on the road. NMSU’s 2021 campaign begins Saturday, Aug. 28,

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The hits – and the awards – just keep on coming for NM State baseball’s Zerek Saenz. Shortly after being named the Western Athletic Conference’s Hitter of the Week Monday morning, the sophomore outfielder from Las Cruces, N.M., learned he was one of the seven NCAA Division I baseball

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – It didn’t matter that they couldn’t practice in Las Cruces until Jan. 19.   It didn’t matter that they couldn’t play their first home match until March 15.   Nothing thrown at the Aggies mattered, as the New Mexico State volleyball team repeated as Western Athletic Conference regular-season champions with

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Lia Mosher hit a career-high 16 kills and the New Mexico State volleyball team defeated Tarleton State 25-15, 25-19, 21-25, 25-14, in its return to the Pan American Center to clinch a share of the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship and the number one seed at next

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The NMSU Aggies are once again headed to the WAC Tournament Championship game. Friday night in the semifinals of the tournament, the Aggies defeated Utah Valley by a final score of 78-62. It was another dominate performance by NMSU. The Aggies led from start to finish going into the half up

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The New Mexico State women’s basketball team dropped a 79-54 decision to undefeated and top-seeded California Baptist in the Western Athletic Conference Semifinals on Friday afternoon at the Orleans Arena.  NM State did a good job limiting the Lancers inside and raced out to an 8-2 lead early. From there,

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The NMSU Aggies made it look easy Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the WAC Tournament. NMSU defeated UT Rio Grande Valley by a final score of 77-61. The two teams only traded the lead in the early minutes of the game, but it wasn’t long before NMSU would take the

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The New Mexico State women’s basketball team held Seattle U to just 27.0-percent shooting and led wire-to-wire to advance to the Western Athletic Conference semifinals with a 56-46 win over the Redhawks on Wednesday afternoon at the Orleans Arena.   NM State started the game strong, building a 15-6 lead by

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The league’s coaches have spoken and Tuesday morning it was revealed that a trio of NM State men’s basketball players are on the receiving end of some All-Western Athletic Conference (WAC) honors. Redshirt junior guard Jabari Rice earned a spot on the All-WAC Second Team, senior guard Clayon Henry carved

(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) DENVER, Colorado – The New Mexico State women’s basketball team earned a number of All-Western Athletic Conference honors with Aaliyah Prince earning All-WAC Second and Defensive Team honors.  Prince, a native of San Antonio, Texas, averaged 12.2 points and 1.4 steals on the season with five games of 20 or more points

ST. GEORGE, Utah – The NMSU Aggies have found a little more momentum after defeating Dixie State Friday night in St. George, Utah. The final score was 76-66. It was NMSU’s second straight win after defeating UT-Rio Grande Valley Tuesday in El Paso. With the WAC Tournament set for next week, NMSU is looking to

EL PASO, Texas – The NMSU Aggies notched up another win in WAC play Tuesday morning at the Don Haskins Center. The Aggies took care of business against UT-Rio Grande Valley by a final score of 69-51. NMSU improved their conference record to 5-6, 8-7 overall. (Courtesy NMSU Athletics) FIRST HALF• Sluggish – perhaps due

STEPHENVILLE, Texas – The NMSU Aggies are finally riding some momentum this season. Friday night in Stephenville, TX, the Aggies notched another win in WAC play over the Tarleton State Texans, 78-51. It was the first ever meeting between the two schools on the hardwood. The game was only close in the first few minutes

(NMSU Athletics) DENVER, Colorado – The Western Athletic Conference has moved the location of the Spring 2021 WAC Volleyball Tournament from Las Cruces to Orem, Utah, the league announced on Wednesday.  The WAC Tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Las Cruces, N.M., at the Pan American Center. but current COVID-19 restrictions exclude the Aggies

EL PASO, Texas – Though Chris Jans may not know the exact remedy, New Mexico State basketball sure knows how to avoid a hangover. For the third week in a row, the Aggies rebounded from a Friday loss to top Utah Valley 67-60 at Eastwood High School Saturday night in El Paso. Utah Valley both

EL PASO, Texas — It was another tough conference game for the NMSU Aggies. Friday night, the Aggies dropped another game in WAC play, this time to Utah Valley by a final score of 69-66. (From NMSU Athletics): Down three with 14 seconds to go, the NM State men’s basketball team had life when Jabari

LAS CRUCES, Texas – The New Mexico State baseball team will have to wait a little longer to return to the field. Thursday, NMSU announced the team’s season opener at UNLV was cancelled due to positive Covid-19 cases on NMSU’s team. The Aggies were originally scheduled to play the UNLV Rebels Friday-Sunday. NMSU was made

EL PASO, Texas – The New Mexico State volleyball team dropped set one but dominated the next three for a 20-25, 25-20, 25-13, 25-20, WAC win over Grand Canyon at Memorial Gym in El Paso. This was the 25th-straight WAC win for the Aggies.   “We were a little shell shocked early on,” said head coach Mike

SEATTLE, Washington — Jabari Rice scored 19 points and Johnny McCants scored 16 and New Mexico State beat Seattle 65-58 on Saturday night. Clayton Henry buried a 3-pointer to tie it at 14 with 9:23 remaining before halftime, followed with a jump shot and New Mexico State (5-5, 2-4 Western Athletic Conference) never trailed again.