YUMA, Ariz. – The Arizona Western Matadors Baseball team (3-0) picked up a pair of wins, beating Utah State Eastern 16-10 before finishing off the day with a 4-3 win over Southern Nevada on Saturday afternoon at Morse Stadium.

Robert Miranda and Sergio DeCello combined to drive in seven of the Matadors' 16 runs in the 16-10 game-one win over Utah State Eastern.

The Matadors opened the scoring in the first game, scoring three runs in the first inning thanks to an RBI triple from Bronson Beave, a Fausto Sanchez RBI single and a Taehyung Kim bases-loaded walk.

After Utah State Eastern scored five runs in the bottom half of the first inning, the Matadors scored six in the third, four of which came off a DeCello grand slam. The Matadors added two more in the fourth inning on a Miranda two-run triple and then tacked on three in the seventh and two more in the eighth.

Hugo Tafoya threw 2.1 scoreless innings to close out the game for the Matadors.

The Matadors battled back from two deficits in the second game of the day to beat Southern Nevada 4-3.

The Coyotes took an early lead, scoring a run in the first inning before doubling their lead in the fourth. Neave put the Matadors on the board and tied the game at 2-2 in the sixth inning, grounding a single into center field to score a pair of runs.

After Southern Nevada took the lead back at 3-2 in the seventh, the Matadors scored two in the eighth to take the lead for good when DeCello drove in the second run of the inning with a single.

Matadors' starter Ismael Cordoba allowed just two runs over six innings of work while Aiden Schmidgall allowed one run and struck out three over the final three frames.

The Matadors are back in action on Friday, February 2, back home at Walt Kammann Field, hosting Northeastern in a single game at 1:00 pm.