Box Score

OREM, Utah – The Utah Valley University Wolverines scored their first seven runs with two outs to beat the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team 12-5 on Thursday at Brent Brown Ballpark.
 
The Wolverines (23-11, 9-0 GWC) put runners at first and third with two outs in the first. Bryan Maxwell (3-2) balked to allow the first run to score and then Goose Kallunki homered to make it 3-0.
 
With two outs in the second, Sean Moysh tripled and Billy Burgess hit an RBI-single to make it 4-0.
 
Wolverines starter Preston Olson wiggled in and out of trouble throughout the first three innings, stranding the bases loaded in both the second and the third.
 
In the fourth, however, Brandon Roush hit a leadoff home run. One out later, the Broncs (21-8, 8-1 GWC) loaded the bases to knock out Olson. With two outs, a wild pitch scored Mike McCarthy, and then Will Klausing hit a two-run double to tie the game.
 
In the bottom of the inning, the Wolverines put two on with two out. Burgess hit an RBI-single and Austin Heaps hit a two-run triple to make it 7-4.
 
That made a winner Ryan Chadwick (3-0), who allowed one run on three hits and three walks in 4.1 innings of relief.
 
Kallunki hit his second home run of the game and conference-leading eighth of the season with one out in the seventh to make it 8-4.

The Broncs got one back in the eighth, but the Wolverines scored four times in the eighth to push the game out of reach.
 
Mission-native Angel Ibanez went 3-for-5 with an RBI to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
 
The Broncs and Wolverines play games two and three of this four-game series with a doubleheader on Friday at 5:00 p.m. Game one is scheduled to last seven innings while game two is scheduled to go the full nine.
 
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.