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BROWNSVILLE, Texas – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team beat the University of Texas at Brownsville Scorpions 5-3 on Tuesday in their first ever trip to Scorpion Field.
 
The Broncs (5-0) are off to a 5-0 start for the second-straight year. This is the sixth time in program history that the Broncs have won at least five-straight games to start the season.
 
Broncs starter Jonathan Sa and Scorpions (14-7) starter Matt Leffler (0-2) were locked in a pitching duel for most of the game. Sa held the Scorpions to five hits while striking out five over the first six innings while Leffler worked out of a bases loaded one-out jam in the second as well as a runners on the corners with one out jam in the fifth.
 
The Broncs broke through in the sixth. With runners on the corners and one out, Mike McCarthy hit an RBI-single to make it 1-0.
 
The Scorpions tied the game in the bottom of the seventh. With one out, Matt Ginn doubled and Joel Fernandez hit an RBI-single to knock out Sa. Zach Zouzalik (2-0) escaped the inning with no further damager.
 
A pair of an errors gave the Broncs two base runners to set-up an RBI-single by Chris Torres in the eighth, knocking out Leffler. Later in the inning, Brandon Roush drew a bases loaded walk to force in a run and Shane Klemcke hit a sacrifice fly to give the Broncs a 4-1 lead.
 
Two singles and two walks gave the Scorpions a run and the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth. Austin Casas came in, and after allowing one inherited runner to score, struck out two while pitching two scoreless innings for his first save.
 
The Broncs added an insurance run in the ninth.
 
The Broncs return home for five-straight games starting on Friday at 7:00 p.m. when they host Arlington Baptist College at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
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.