The University of New Mexico baseball team needed some things to go right if it was going to knock off San Diego State ace Troy Melton on Thursday night.
Melton delivered seven solid innings, allowing two runs and striking out seven and the Aztecs rolled to a 10-3 win in the opener of a three-game series at Santa Ana Star Field.
A 6-foot-4 junior right-hander with a mid- to high-90s fastball, Melton is projected to go in the first three rounds of this summer’s MLB draft. The Lobos touched him for nine hits Thursday but whenever Melton needed a big out, he got one.