LAS CRUCES, N.M. – NM State struck early and often on Friday night at Presley Askew Field at Johnson Stadium, using a four‑run first inning and fending off a late Prairie View push to earn a 12-6 victory. The Aggies tallied 13 hits, including nine extra‑base knocks, and scored in five different innings to secure their second straight win.
 
NM State immediately got on the board as doubles from Aidan Taclas, Steve Solorzano, Bryce Campbell and Chris Daniels led to four runs in the first inning.
 
After Prairie View scored once in the second, NM State responded with two in the third on a Daniels sacrifice fly and a Cole Rogers RBI triple. The Aggies later pushed across three in the sixth to match a three-run sixth from the visitors. The Aggie scoring was highlighted by Taclas' RBI single and a two‑run double from Daniels, extending their lead to 10-4.
 
Prairie View homered in the seventh, but NM State answered with two in the eighth on Rogers' second extra-base hit of the night. On the mound, Colton Sneddon earned the win with three innings of one‑run work amid a bullpen day for Head Coach Jake Angier, while Connor Wylde handled the final 3.2 innings to earn the save and close out the 12‑6 victory.
 
NOTABLES

• Aidan Taclas posted his second multi‑hit game of his Aggie career and turned his second consecutive multi-RBI day.
• Chris Daniels drove in a career-high five runs to mark the most by an Aggie in a single game this season. Including Friday night, the sophomore is now 8-for-11 with eight RBIs and four extra-base hits over his last three games.
• Cole Rogers continued a scorching stretch, turning in his fourth consecutive multi-hit game, while driving in three runs to move his RBI total to 12 over the last four contests.
• Jonatan Clough reached base three times, including recording the first triple of his redshirt junior season.
• NM State posted nine extra‑base hits, including a season-high seven doubles and a season-high tying two triples.
• Colton Sneddon earned the first win of his Aggie career, tossing 3.0 innings while giving up just one run and two strikeouts.
• The Aggie defense turned two double plays to bring its season total to 10 through just nine games. 

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