Box Score

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team led, was tied with or was within one run of the No. 18 University of Texas Longhorns for five innings in the middle of the game in a 9-5 loss on Wednesday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
 
Roger Bernal went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and a run scored to raise his NCAA-leading batting average to .494.
 
The Longhorns (14-9) led 4-0 after six batters had faced Broncs (12-6) starter Bryan Maxwell. Jonathan Walsh hit a two-run triple and, after a Brooks Marlow walk, scored on a wild pitch. Alex Silver followed with an RBI-double to cap the inning.
 
The Broncs responded right away as Adrian de la Rosa hit a two-out RBI-double in the top of the second to make it 4-1.
 
One inning later, Vincent Mejia hit a three-run home run, his third of the season, to tie the game. Mission-native Angel Ibanez tripled and scored on a groundout by Mike McCarthy to put the Broncs ahead 5-4.
 
That was all the Broncs got, however, as Hoby Milner (5-3) took over in the fourth and pitched six scoreless innings, striking out eight while allowing two hits and two walks.
 
The Longhorns tied the game in the fourth on a two-out RBI-double by Jordan Etier against Dylan Badura (1-1) in the fourth. They took the lead in the sixth. After loading the bases with no one out, Etier hit into a double play to score Landon Steinhagen to make it 6-5.
 
The Longhorns put the game away in the eighth when Walsh hit a three-run home run. Walsh finished a double short of the cycle.
 
The Broncs return to action when they open Great West Conference play on Thursday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. against the New York Institute of Technology 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.