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EDINBURG – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team opened up a four-game series against the New Jersey Institute of Technology Highlanders with a 13-2 win on Friday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
The game ended after six and a half innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.
 
Riley Goulding extended his hitting streak to 11 games by going 3-for-3 with a walk, an RBI and a career-high tying three runs scored. He is now 15-for-33 (.455) over the last 11 games, during which time the Broncs (20-18, 11-2 Great West Conference) are 8-3.
 
Alex Howe and Derek Hagy also had three-hit games. Howe drove in a career-high four runs while scoring twice and hitting a double. Hagy went 3-for-3 with a walk, two RBI and three runs scored.
 
Shane Ammon was strong in the leadoff spot, reaching base three times and scoring each time. He saw an average of 4.8 pitches per plate appearance.
 
Alberto Morales also had a strong game, reaching base three times and hitting his team-leading third home run of the season, a two-run shot.
 
All of the offense supported another strong outing by Sam Street (8-1), who pitched his sixth complete game of the season, allowing two unearned runs in seven innings on three hits and two walks while striking out nine. It was the fourth time Street has pitched a complete game without allowing an earned run. Street has now pitched a complete game or at least nine innings in each of his last six starts.
 
The Highlanders (14-22, 6-7) took a 2-0 in the top of the first on an error, a hit batsman, a wild pitch, an RBI-groundout and a sacrifice fly.
 
The Broncs got an unearned run back against Tripp Davis (1-7) in the bottom of the inning, but didn't take the lead until the second. With runners at second and third and two outs, Ammon fouled off multiple two-strike offerings to draw an eight-pitch walk. Goulding followed with the first hard hit ball of the game to drive in a run. Howe then hit a two-run single and Dillon Engelhart drove in his second run of the game with a single to make it 5-2.
 
After scratching across another run on two walks, a sacrifice bunt and an RBI-groundout in the third, the Broncs scored four in the fourth, capped by Morales' home run, and three in the fifth, capped by a two-run single by Hagy, to complete the scoring.
 
The Broncs and Highlanders continue this four-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Edinburg Baseball Stadium. Game one is scheduled to last seven innings while game two is slated for the full nine. Gates open at 2 p.m.