EDINBURG - Before classes start at Pan American University next week, the hard-working Bronc soccer team will kick off Pan American's sports year at 2 p.m. here Sunday.

The Broncs will meet Incarnate Word College of San Antonio on the Pan American soccer field, just north of Orville I. Cox Tennis Stadium. Admission is free.

"We added this game trying to bring our schedule up to 20 games," said Coach Eloy Moran of Pan American. "This gives us 19. We hope to add one more."

The Broncs have been working out through August to prepare for what could be an important season. They finished 13-1-1 last year under Coach Reggie Tredaway, who resigned as soccer head coach to become full-time baseball assistance coach.

Moran has 10 veterans and six newcomers who will try to extend Pan American's strong reputation as an NCAA major independent. Soccer isn't an official sport in the new American South Athletic Conference. The Broncs belong in six other sports. 

Two sharpshooting seniors from McAllen Memorial High, Jose Salinas and Efren Lopez, lead Pan American. Hugo Lopez and Homero Ortegon also are from Memorial.

Goalie Jesse Murguia is a veteran from McAllen High. Other McHi veterans are Carlos Juvera and manager Pedro Diaz. Freddy Sanguinetti is from Houston and Tomas Gallegos lives in McAllen but is from Jeff Davis High in Houston.

Other veterans are Carlos Salinas, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo, Salvador Garcia and Reveriano Hernandez, both from Brownsville Hanna. Newcomers include Eliud Garcia, McHi; Armando Duran and Jose Guajardo, Edinburg; Samuel Zavala, Harlingen; and Jose Ibarra, Hidalgo.