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EDINBURG – Dylan Badura, Preston Budziszewski and Aaron Moore combined to pitch a five-hit shutout to lead the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team past the Chicago State University Cougars 6-0 in game two of a doubleheader on Saturday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
Winners of four in a row, the Broncs (15-15, 6-1 Great West Conference) are now back at .500 overall for the first time since the second game of the season. The Broncs are also tied for first in the GWC standings with Northern Colorado (6-1).
 
Badura (3-5) had perhaps the best start of his career, going a career-high seven and a third innings, striking out six while scattering five hits and one walk. He departed with runners at first and third and one out in the eighth with the Broncs leading 2-0, but on Budziszewski's first pitch, catcher Jacob Huckabay picked off Ray Cekus at first, and on Budziszewski's second pitch, Joehl Calixto popped out to first to end the threat.
 
Moore followed with a hitless ninth to end the game.
 
Cougars (4-22, 1-6 GWC) starter Andrew Wellwerts (1-6) was almost equal to the task, pitching a complete game on 143 pitches (94 strikes) while allowing six runs (two earned) on 11 hits and one walk with four strikeouts.
 
The first run he allowed came when Shane Ammon and Alex Howe pulled off a double steal with two outs in the third. The next run came in the fourth on an RBI-double by Riley Goulding.
 
That was it until the eighth, when, with two outs, Alberto Morales tripled. Shane Klemcke followed with a grounder to short that ate up Julian Russell and went into the outfield, allowing Morales to score. After Goulding reached on an infield-single, Derek Hagy reached on an error, allowing the inning to reach Ammon, who hit a bases clearing triple to put the game away.
 
Morales finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored while Ammon went 2-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored. Goulding finished 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored.
 
The Broncs go for the series sweep of the Cougars on Sunday at 12 p.m. at Edinburg Baseball Stadium. Gates open at 11 a.m.