Box ScorePhoto GalleryEDINBURG – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team completed the three-game sweep of the Abilene Christian University Wildcats with a 4-3 win to close out the Al Ogletree Classic on Sunday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
The Broncs (5-2) are now winners of five in a row.
The Broncs trailed 3-2 entering the bottom of the seventh, but the Broncs put runners at second and third with nobody out, setting up n RBI-single by junior
Cole Loncar. Sophomore
Victor Garcia Jr. followed by grounding into a double play to drive in a run and tie the game.
In the eighth, senior
Logan Landon led off with an infield-single against
Ladgie Zotyka (0-1), moved to second on a groundout, to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a sacrifice fly by
Correy Davis to put the Broncs on top.
That made a winner of junior
Matt Rigby (1-0) who pitched 2.1 innings of scoreless relief, striking out one while allowing two hits.
Sophomore Nikki Rowe alum
Andrew Padron got the final two outs for his third save.
The Broncs got on the board against
Garrett deMeyere right away, as, with Loncar on second and two outs in the first, sophomore
Jacob Huckabay hit an RBI-single to make it 1-0.
Loncar finished 3-for-4.
deMeyere settle down from there, pitching three scoreless innings before giving way to
Kevin Sheets.
Freshman
Robert Quinonez scattered five hits over the first six innings, striking out five, but in the seventh,
Garrett Hale reached on an error,
Brayden Gomez hit an RBI-double and
Russell Crippen hit an RBI-triple to knock out Quinonez. Rigby came in and allowed a sacrifice fly to
Kyle Carroll as the Wildcats (0-6) went up 3-1.
The Broncs are back in action on Tuesday at 6 p.m. when they visit No. 6 Texas in a game that will be televised on Longhorn Network.
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