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EDINBURG, Texas – For the first time in program history, the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs women's basketball team completed a season-sweep of the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Islanders, with a 69-52 victory on Wednesday at the UTPA Fieldhouse.
 
This is the 13^th-straight season in which the Broncs (3-7) and Islanders (3-7) played a home and home series. They had split the season series during each of the last three years. The Broncs are now 4-2 against the Islanders since Denny Downing took over as head coach.
 
The Broncs had an early 4-3 lead on a jumper by Bianca Torre and free throws by Donna Jackson, but the Islanders scored the next six points to go up 9-4. Adanna Opara converted a three-point play to spark the Broncs on a 10-0 run, capped by a Torre jumper, to go up 14-9 with 11:09 remaining in the first half.
 
Five minutes later, with the game tied at 22-22, LaQuita Garner scored six points to power a 14-3 Broncs run that made it 36-25 with 1:53 remaining.
 
Garner led the Broncs with 14 points. Donna Jackson also scored 14 points to go with eight rebounds. Torre finished with 13 points, seven assists and three steals. Erin Lewis had a game-high eight assists.
 
Senior Ashley Watson saw her first action of the season, playing two minutes off the bench, recording one rebound.
 
The Broncs held the Islanders without a point for the first 4:19 of the second half as they extended the lead to 44-29.
 
The Islanders were led by Myeisha Myles, who scored 13 points with seven rebounds.
 
The Broncs return to action for the second of three-straight home games on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. when they host Stephen F. Austin at the UTPA Fieldhouse.
 
The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics competes at the NCAA Division I classification. UTPA, formerly known as Pan American College and Pan American University, is a part of the University of Texas System of Schools. The Broncs compete in 14 varsity sports; men's and women's basketball, golf, tennis, track and field, and cross country, along with women's volleyball and men's baseball. In 1963, then known as Pan American College, the Broncs men's basketball program won the NAIA National Championship with a 73-62 victory over Western Carolina. In 2008 UTPA joined the new all-sports division of the Great West Conference.