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Arizona outlasts New Mexico State in classic midweek college baseball game

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9 months ago

April 9, 2025

Arizona outlasts New Mexico State in classic midweek college baseball game

The college baseball regular season last 14 weeks, and while the majority of the games are playing in weekend series there’s still room to get in one or two in between. So far this season Arizona has faced the likes of New Mexico, Rice, ASU, Kansas, Seattle and Grand Canyon, winning the first five before falling last Tuesday at GCU.

The Wildcats are now 6-1 in midweek games, beating New Mexico State 11-9 on Tuesday night at Hi Corbett Field, avenging a home loss to the Aggies last season. And it was very much a typical midweek college baseball affair.

Arizona (23-9) and New Mexico State (17-16) combined for 20 runs and 27 hits, with another 14 batters reaching on free passes as each team used six pitchers. The 1st inning alone lasted more than 40 minutes, with NMSU jumping out to a 4-0 lead before the Wildcats responded with five in the bottom of the innings.

The go-ahead run came in the bottom of the 8^th on an RBI triple from Easton Breyfogle, who then came home on a sacrifice fly from TJ Adams.

“Whether it’s New Mexico State or Grand Canyon, or whoever we’re playing on the midweek, these teams come in here and they’re ready to play,” UA coach Chip Hale said. “I thought our guys did a good job of responding and battling the whole game, and the relievers did a good job of holding it down six through the ninth inning.”

Mason White hit two home runs onto the roof of the Terry Francona Hitting Center in right field, giving him 36 for his career to tie Kenny Corley for 4^th on the school’s all-time list. He’s three behind former teammate Chase Davis, who on Tuesday belted a pair of homers for the Double-A Springfield Cardinals.

White hit a 2-run shot in the bottom of the 1^st and added a 3-run bomb in the 4^th. Both were on pitches down and in.

“That’s where I’ve been hot for my whole life, so they threw it in the wrong spot,” said White, who was 3 for 4 with five RBI.

Arizona started left-hander Jack Berg, who hadn’t appeared in a game in a month, and it did not go well. He only retired one of six batters he faced and ended up allowing four runs.

“We wanted to get Jack in there and see what he could do,” Hale said. “We’re really searching for lefties, and unfortunately it didn’t work out so well so you put yourself behind an 8-ball a little bit. The guys responded right away, got got the lead back.”

The UA led 6-4 after two innings but NMSU scored four in the 3^rd against Raul Garazyar, who had only allowed four earned runs in 22.1 innings coming in. The Wildcats retook the lead at 9-8 in the 4^th on White’s second homer but the Aggies tied it in the top of the 5^th against Michael Hilker Jr.

Hilker escaped runners on second and third with 1 out in the 5^th and then threw a 1-2-3 6^th, starting a run of strong relief pitching. Matthew Martinez, Julian Tonghini and Tony Pluta each followed with scoreless innings, the win going to Tonghini and Pluta getting his sixth save in seven chances.

The bottom of the 8^th saw Tommy Splaine lead off with a single and then score on a triple down the right field line. He easily made it to third base standing, showing no ill effects from recent quad injuries to both legs, and also beat a throw home with a headfirst slide.

“I think after tonight I got tested plenty,” said Breyfogle, who was 2 for 5 with three RBI. “So I feel like I’m definitely, if not 100 percent we’re getting there, and I should be good to go 100 percent this weekend.”

Arizona returns to Big 12 play this weekend when it hosts Oklahoma State (15-15, 4-6) for three. The Cowboys lost a midweek game at home to Oral Roberts on Tuesday after sweeping previously first-place Kansas State last weekend.

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New Mexico deserves speedier game commission appointments

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January 9, 2026

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What bills have been filed for New Mexico’s 2026 legislative session?

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January 8, 2026

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What bills have been filed for New Mexico’s 2026 legislative session?

The governor sets the agenda for the session, including for the budget, so here is what they are looking at so far.

SANTA FE, N.M. — As the regular session of the New Mexico Legislature is set to begin Jan. 20, lawmakers have already filed dozens of bills.

Bills include prohibiting book bans at public libraries and protections against AI, specifically the distribution of sensitive and “Deepfake” images

Juvenile justice reform is, again, a hot topic. House Bill 25 would allow access to someone’s juvenile records during a background check if they’re trying to buy a gun.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sets the agenda and puts forth the proposed budget lawmakers will address during the session. The governor is calling for lawmakers to take up an $11.3 billion budget for the 2027 fiscal year, which is up 4.6% from current spending levels.

Where would that money go? More than $600 million would go to universal free child care. Meanwhile, more than $200 million would go to health care and to protect against federal funding cuts.

There is also $65 million for statewide affordable housing initiatives and $19 million for public safety.

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Understanding New Mexico’s data center boom | Opinion

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January 8, 2026

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Understanding New Mexico’s data center boom | Opinion

Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
| Las Cruces Sun-News

After years of failure to land a “big fish” business for New Mexico’s economy (or effectively use the oil and gas revenues to grow the economy) Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham with the help of her Economic Development Secretary Rob Black have lured no fewer than three large data centers to New Mexico. These data centers are being built to serve the booming world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and they will have profound impacts on New Mexico.

It is our view that having these data centers locate in New Mexico is better than having them locate elsewhere. While we have many differences of opinion with this governor, we are pleased to see her get serious about growing and diversifying New Mexico’s oil-dependent economy albeit quite late in her second term.

Sadly, the governor and legislature have chosen not to use broad based economic reforms like deregulation or tax cuts to improve New Mexico’s competitiveness. But, with the failure of her “preferred” economic development “wins” like Maxeon and Ebon solar both of which the governor announced a few years ago, but haven’t panned out, the focus on a more realistic strategy is welcome and long overdue.

Currently, three new data centers are slated to be built in New Mexico:

Oracle’s Project Jupiter in Santa Teresa with an investment of $165 billion.
Project Zenith slated to be built in Roswell amounts to a $11.7 billion investment.
New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. While the overall investment is unclear, the energy requirement is the largest of the three at 7 gigawatts (that’s seven times the power used by the City of San Francisco).

What is a data center? Basically, they are the real-world computing infrastructure that makes up the Internet. The rise of AI requires vast new computing power. It is critical that these facilities have uninterrupted electricity.

That electricity is going to be largely generated by traditional sources like natural gas and possibly nuclear. That contravenes New Mexico’s Energy Transition Act of 2019 which was adopted by this Gov. and many of the legislators still in office. Under the Act electrical power emissions are supposed to be eliminated in a few years.

With the amount of money being invested in these facilities and the simple fact that wind and solar and other “renewable” energy sources aren’t going to get the job done. In 2025 the Legislature passed and MLG signed HB 93 which allows for the creation of “microgrids” that won’t tax the grid and make our electricity more expensive, but the ETA will have to be amended or ignored to provide enough electricity for these data centers. There’s no other option.

New Mexicans have every right to wonder why powerful friends of the governor can set up their own natural gas microgrids while the rest of us face rising costs and decreased reliability from so-called “renewables.” Don’t get me wrong, having these data centers come to New Mexico is an economic boon.

But it comes tempered with massive subsidies including a 30-year property tax exemption and up to $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds. New Mexico is ideally suited as a destination for these data centers with its favorable climate and lack of natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. We shouldn’t be giving away such massive subsidies.

Welcoming the data center boom to New Mexico better than rejecting them and pushing them to locate in other states. There is no way to avoid CO2 emissions whether they happen here or somewhere else. But, there are questions about both the electricity demand and subsidies that must be addressed as New Mexico’s data center boom begins.

What will the Legislature, radical environmental groups, and future governors of our state do to hinder (or help) bring these data centers to our State? That is an open question that depends heavily on upcoming statewide elections. It is important that New Mexicans understand and appreciate these complicated issues.

Paul Gessing is president of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Foundation. The Rio Grande Foundation is an independent, nonpartisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization dedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico based on principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual responsibility

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