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Contention Forgotten? Aggies, Lobos Don't Meet In Any Women's Sports This Fall

UNM plays against NMSU in a photograph from 2018, the last time the groups played in Albuquerque. UNM's Mariessa Carrasco (21) and NMSU's Megan Hart (12) are currently gone. (Diary document)
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Furthermore, in a state with just two Division I colleges — each jam-loaded with enlistments brimming with New Mexicans from everywhere the state — there is an additional level on interest whenever the Aggies and Lobos get down to business on a court, course, field, pool, pitch or some other spot groups from the New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico can contend.

Yet, notwithstanding the two schools demanding that there ought to constantly be Aggies contending with Lobos in each NCAA sport the two share practically speaking, the two schools aren't playing in any of their four average people's games this fall. Of the seven fall sports the two offer in like manner generally speaking, only two (football and men's golf) will contend with one another this year.

"There's certainly a significance to play the New Mexico State contention," UNM athletic chief Eddie Nuñez said. In any case, he added, "in some cases that is trying to make plans work, particularly with various meetings and various assumptions, however we do our we put forth a valiant effort to ensure that we can make it happen."

Such difficulties evidently have impeded the two schools contending in ladies' golf, people's crosscountry and ladies' soccer. Volleyball is by all accounts another story.

NMSU AD Mario Moccia, as Nuñez, underscored he doesn't obsessively hover over his mentors planning, yet anticipates that they should get their in-state rival on the timetable whenever the situation allows. Moccia recognized he wasn't even mindful so many of the schools' games groups weren't contending this year until the Journal got some information about it.

It's not, he said, something that is by plan, and, surprisingly, reviewed when a previous lead representative stepped in to ensure his Aggies were doing their part to play ladies' ball two times a season after they had decided to drop that yearly home-and-home contention down to one game for every season.

"I believe it means a lot to play New Mexico in each of our games in the nonconference," Moccia said. "… It's dependably one of the most outstanding went to games for the two schools, so it's significant for the fans and for the two schools with movement and that multitude of different issues, as well."

Concerning the five fall sports that are skirting the contention this fall, volleyball is the one game NMSU overwhelms UNM in customarily, holding the unequaled series benefit of 42-28, assuming you go by UNM's media guide, or 47-30, assuming you go by NMSU's media guide. (The two counts liken to about a similar win rate.) There have been a long time in the past where the two didn't play, however that is uncommon and the competition hadn't skirted a beat by any stretch of the imagination from 2001 to 2019.

NMSU had a disproportionate 3-0 success over UNM in the Pan American Center in 2019, the primary season under Lobo mentor Jon Newman-Gonchar. In 2020, COVID cleaned away any opportunity of the two playing.

A year prior, long-term NMSU mentor Mike Jordan, who has a 19-7 record versus The Lobos, said he was told by Newman-Gonchar that UNM's timetable was at that point full, so they didn't play — something he says reoccurred this past offseason while setting up a counterpart for this fall.

Newman-Gonchar told the Journal in an email: "The planning of finishing the timetable didn't arrange this year. The two mentors attempted to get the timetable to adjust and it didn't end up actually working. … Last year both nonconference plans didn't have the openings expected to get the match planned."