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EDINBURG – Riley Goulding hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to send the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team past the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders 9-8 in game two of a doubleheader on Tuesday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
Goulding finished 1-for-5 with a walk to extend his hitting streak to 15 games and is now 20-for-48 (.417) over that span.
 
Trailing 8-7 going into the bottom of the ninth, Alberto Morales led off for the Broncs (23-19) with a single off of Islanders (25-20) closer Jacob Dorris (1-2). After a sacrifice bunt, Edinburg alum Lee Rios pinch ran. Shane Klemcke hit a hopper wide of first that hit off of Brad Porras' glove and caromed out to the left side of the infield to put runners on the corners. Aaron Moore drew a four-pitch walk. One out later, Dorris threw a 2-2 pitch to the backstop, allowing Rios to score to tie the game and Klemcke and Moore to move up a base each. Derek Hagy walked on the next pitch, and then Goulding came up and delivered a liner down the left field line to score Klemcke and end the game.
 
That made a winner of Matthew Harrell (2-1), who was pressed into early action and pitched a career-high four and two-thirds innings of scoreless ball, striking out a career-high three batters while scattering four hits.
 
The Broncs jumped out to a 7-0 lead over the first three innings. With two outs in the first, Shane Ammon singled and Alex Howe walked, setting up a two-run single by Morales.
 
In the second, the Broncs again put runners at second and third with two outs, setting up a two-run single by Hagy to make it 4-0.
 
With one out in the third, Howe and Morales singled. Will Klausing hit an RBI-double, Klemcke hit a sacrifice fly and Moore hit an RBI-single to make it 7-0.
 
In the mean time, Kyle Tokunaga started and pitched three hitless innings, striking out two.
 
Colby McCasland took over in the fourth, and the Islanders loaded the bases on two singles and an error. Brandon Tierney hit a two-run single to make it 7-2. The Islanders again loaded the bases with one out, but Luis Flores came in to get a double play and end the inning.
 
The Islanders used three-straight singles to score a run to start off the fifth. After a walk loaded the bases, Jordan Lee hit an RBI-single and Tierney hit another two-run single. One out later, Flores plunked Brad Lemberti to end his night with the bases loaded. Harrell came in, and after allowing an RBI-fielder's choice, escaped the inning with the one-run deficit intact.
 
The Broncs are back in action on Friday when they open a four-game Great West Conference series at North Dakota with a doubleheader at 1 p.m.