Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Jason Groves with a nice feature on NMSU's point

Prior to this season, if someone has queried us as to who Hernst Laroche is, we probably would have said a movie or television character actor. Maybe he was in "The Lives of Others" a superb German movie which deservedly won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Now it's certainly true we don't get out and around much but our guess is most folks would have offered a similar answer.

Jason Groves came to our rescue earlier with the 411 on Laroche and here he fills us in on how successful a season the freshman is enjoying:

Laroche improves for NMSU basketball team
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
2/18/2009


LAS CRUCES — Hernst Laroche had an interesting pair of games over the weekend.

In Western Athletic Conference home games, the New Mexico State freshman point guard from Montreal had two opposite stat lines, but the result was the same — two Aggies victories.

"We are trying to go strong before the WAC Tournament," Laroche said.

With his nine assists on Monday against Louisiana Tech, Laroche passed Josh Jenkins for the most assists by a freshman in school history with 114 on the year...

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