Box Score

EDINBURG – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball brought the winning run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth before completing a 10-8 loss to the University of Northern Colorado Bears on Saturday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
The game, which started at 7:02 p.m. on Friday, went into a lightning delay at 10:23 p.m. before getting suspended due to thunderstorms.
 
Justin Mulvaney (2-1), who recorded the final out of the eighth before the suspension, started the ninth, allowing a one-out double to junior Cole Loncar before plunked senior Jesus Garcia with two outs.
 
Allen Cook came in and got sophomore Victor Garcia Jr. to line out to right for his third save.
 
The regularly scheduled game is expected to start in a few minutes.
 
The Broncs (14-24-1, 1-14-1 WAC) have scored 41 runs over their last five games, an average of 8.1 runs per game.
 
The Bears (14-21, 10-6 WAC) got three-run home runs from Colt Maltese and Jensen Park against junior Parker Gallegos, so freshman Harlingen South alum Zach Martinez took over with one out in the fourth. He pitched 3.1 scoreless innings, striking out three while scattering three singles.
 
Freshman Johnny Gonzalez and junior Matt Rigby combined on a scoreless eighth to build the bridge to sophomore Nikki Rowe alum Andrew Padron (2-3), but the Bears scored four runs on a two-run single by Nick Tanner and a two-run double by Bryan Tibbitts to make it 10-8.
 
Down 3-0 in the second, the Broncs scored a pair of runs in the second against Spencer Applebach on a passed ball and then a sacrifice fly by sophomore Jacob Huckabay.
 
The Bears threatened to get one of those runs back in the third, but with a runner at third and two outs, senior Logan Landon made a full-frontal diving catch to end the inning. The catch was ranked as No. 4 on SportsCenter's Top Plays of the Night.
 
Huckabay also flashed the leather, making a diving catch of a popped up bunt to open the fourth.
 
The Broncs took their first lead in the bottom of the third on an RBI-single by junior Correy Davis and a two-run double by Garcia that made it 6-3.
 
Then, with the game tied at six in the bottom of the fourth, junior Scott Mercer laid down a suicide squeeze and Loncar hit an RBI-single to give the Broncs the lead until the ninth.

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