NM State to Face Minnesota at Tucson Regional 5/10/2015 12:00:00 AM NM State to Face Minnesota at Tucson Regional New Mexico State, which won both the WAC regular season and tournament titles, will represent the conference in the NCAA Championship as the Aggies will travel to Tucson, Ariz., for the Tucson Regional this Friday. NM State (46-14), which set a school record for wins in a season Saturday, will face Minnesota (46-9) this Friday, May 15. St. John's (28-17) will face host and No. 12 seed Arizona (38-17) on the other side of the bracket in the double elimination regional. The Aggies are led by WAC Player of the Year Staci Rodriguez, who has a .408 batting average, a .769 slugging percentage and a .535 on-base percentage. She has 16 doubles, 15 home runs and 56 RBIs on the season. Teammate Fiana Finau tied the program record with her 24th home run of the season Saturday. All of the NM State starters are hitting above .300 this season, as the team ranks sixth nationally in batting average (.354), seventh in slugging percentage (.616), eighth in home runs per game (1.7), ninth in on-base percentage (.451) and scoring (7.57) and 23rd in doubles per game (1.6). Danielle Parlich, a finalist for the NFCA Freshman of the Year, leads Minnesota with a .409 batting average and has a team-best 72 hits. Teammate Sara Groenewegen, a finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, has gone 28-5 with a 1.54 ERA, racking up 344 strikeouts. At the plate, the sophomore has a .379 batting average and leads Minnesota with 12 home runs, a .677 slugging percentage and a .487 on-base percentage. The Aggies fell 6-1 to Minnesota in the third week of the season and dropped a doubleheader to Arizona on March 21. To view the complete bracket, click here.