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EDINBURG – The of Texas-Pan American Broncs baseball team fell to the Utah Valley University Wolverines 5-2 in game one of a doubleheader on Saturday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
Junior Scott Mercer led the Broncs (20-30-1, 5-20-1 WAC) by going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored.
 
Mercer scored his run in the first. After reaching on an infield-single, Mercer stole second and scored on a two-out single by sophomore Victor Garcia Jr.
 
Then, with the Broncs down 4-1 in the fifth, Mercer doubled home senior Clayton Haltom, who had doubled earlier in the inning, to make it a two-run game.
 
Senior Blake English (2-5) retired the first six batters he faced on a strikeout, a fly out and four groundouts. In the third, however, the Wolverines (18-32, 14-12 WAC) put two on with one out, setting up an RBI-single by Kade Andrus and a two-run single by Mark Kreuger. The Wolverines added a run on an error later in the inning.
 
That made a winner of Patrick Wolfe (2-5), who pitched 3.1 innings of scoreless relief.
 
Kyle Valgardson pitched a scoreless ninth for his sixth save.
 
The Broncs bullpen held the Wolverines off the board until the ninth. Freshman Harlingen South alum Zach Martinez pitched 4.2 innings of three-hit ball, striking out two. Junior Matt Rigby, a former Wolverine, struck out one in a scoreless eighth.
 
In the ninth, however, Jordan Schlehuber hit an RBI-double to extend the Wolverines' lead.
 
The Broncs close out the season with the second game of this doubleheader in approximately 30 minutes.

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