EDINBURG -- Nothing went right for UTB/TSC as The University of Texas-Pan American downed UTB/TSC, 13-1, in a seven-inning game shortened by the 10-run rule at Edinburg Baseball Stadium Tuesday night.

UTPA was playing its first game of the season, while UTB/TSC is now 11-6. The Broncs, who are the first NCAA Division I opponent for the Scorpions this year, will be in Brownsville to face UTB/TSC Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The Broncs scored two runs in the first inning and six in the second inning, with the last two runs coming on a two-run homer by Mike McCarthy.

The linescore after two innings showed UTPA with eight runs on three hits, and UTB/TSC with no runs and three hits. Only four of the first UTPA runs were earned with the help of three Scorpion errors.

"We played as if we were scared, as if we were afraid to win," Scorpion head coach Bryan Aughney said. "Then when we got behind, we quit."

The Broncs added one run in the fifth and four in the sixth.

The lone Scorpion run came in the seventh inning, when Ricardo Alanis doubled down the right-field line and scored on Joel Fernandez' single.

Ryan Moye, the first of four Scorpion pitchers, absorbed the loss. Mitch Schaafsma, Baylr Bickerton and Sam Buchanan also pitched. Combined, Scorpion pitching struck out one, walked six, and hit five Broncs.

UTB/TSC will return home for a four-game Red River Athletic Conference series against Huston-Tillotson University. The two teams play a doubleheaders at 4 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday. The final game of the series will be a non-conference meeting.

The Scorpions lead the RRAC race with a 6-0 record. HTU is 2-3 overall and 0-1 in conference games.