YUMA, Ariz. – The No. 13 ranked Arizona Western College Matadors Baseball team (25-7, 12-6) split a pair of conference games on the road in Phoenix against the Phoenix College Bears (15-16, 8-10) on Tuesday afternoon, winning game one 3-0 before falling in game two 7-4.

Carlos Uribe tossed seven shutout innings in game one as Sergio DeCello recorded the game's lone RBI in a 3-0 win over the Bears to open the doubleheader.

The game remained scoreless until the fourth inning when the Matadors put a pair of runs on the board to take the lead. DeCello knocked in a run with a single before the Matadors tacked on a second run on a double play.

Luca Hoerger scored the Matadors' third run of the game on a wild pitch in the fifth inning to extend the Matadors' lead to 3-0.

The win was the Matadors' sixth straight win and fifth consecutive shutout, extending the team's shutout streak to 35 innings.

The Matadors were held off the board until the eighth inning when Arizona Western scored four runs in the eighth inning in a 7-4 loss to the Bears in game two.

The Bears opened the scoring in the second inning, scoring five runs to take a 5-0 lead before adding a sixth run in the fourth and taking on their seventh run in the seventh to score the first seven runs of the game.

With one out in the eighth inning, Robert Miranda singled to center before Eli Watson was hit by a pitch. Sergio DeCello was also hit by a pitch in the next at-bat, loading the bases before Houston drew a bases-loaded walk to put the Matadors on the board. Bronson Neave then drove in a pair with a two-run single and Taehyung Kim capped off the inning with an RBI double.

The Matadors return home on Saturday, March 23, hosting Paradise Valley in an ACCAC doubleheader with the first pitch scheduled for Noon at Walt Kammann Baseball Field.