LOS ANGELES -- Cal State LA's baseball team picked up two important victories Sunday in a doubleheader sweep over Cal State San Marcos.

The Golden Eagles got a combined shutout from Mitchell Moore and James Mendez in the opener and then scored the winning run on a sixth-inning balk to sweep the Cougars, 8-0 and 8-7 at Reeder Field. Cal State LA (4-11, 3-1 CCAA) won the final three games of the series after dropping the opener on Friday.

Moore set the tone with a brilliant start in the opener of Sunday's doubleheader. He went eight innings and scattered seven hits while not issuing a walk and striking out six. Mendez worked around a walk and a hit in a scoreless ninth inning to wrap things up.

In the nightcap, Nathan Navarrete staked the Golden Eagles to a 7-2 lead after a three-run home run in the third inning, but Cal State San Marcos battled back to tie and the Golden Eagles pushed across what turned out to be the winning run in the sixth on a balk. Gabriel Gentner made things interesting in the seventh after walking two with two outs, but he closed the game out with a strikeout to pick up his second save. Holden Berger pitched a scoreless sixth inning to pick up the win.

The opener featured a good battle between Cal State San Marcos starter Taylor Ahearn and Moore. Ahearn allowed only eight hits and three runs to keep things close through six innings, but Cal State LA took advantage of eight walks from the bullpen to break things open in the seventh and eighth innings.

Armett Johnson and Navarrete had two hits each for Cal State LA, which had nine hits in the opener.

The Golden Eagles got on the board in the first when Johnson singled up the middle and eventually scored on an error. Cal State LA made it 2-0 in the second when a groundout by Isaac Dominguez scored Trevor Meleski. Cal State LA added another run in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Welker.

The game got away from the Cougars in the seventh. Dominguez walked with the bases loaded to score one run, Paul Martinez scored on a wild pitch for another and Dakota Hernandez walked with the bases loaded to make it 6-0. Garrett Dean scored on a wild pitch in the eighth to make it 7-0 and Lawrence Dominguez singled in a run to make it 8-0.

The Golden Eagles erased a 2-0 deficit in the nightcap by scoring seven times in the third. Hernandez doubled in one run to make it 2-1 and the Golden Eagles took the lead when an errant throw on a grounder by Welker wound up bounding into left field as Hernandez and Isaac Dominguez scored. Dean followed with a run-scoring single to make it 4-2 and Navarrete hit a three-run home run to make it 7-2.

Cal State San Marcos scored three times on four hits in the fourth and got a two-run single by Tyler Ankrom to tie it in the fifth.

Cal State LA got the winning run in the sixth. Navarrete singled to left-center to start the inning and Meleski reached first on an error on a sacrifice bunt. The runners advanced on a passed ball and Navarrete later scored on a balk while Angel Sanchez was at the plate.

Gentner got the first two outs quickly in the seventh, but walked the next two batters before striking out Dvorak to end it.

Cal State LA will return to action on Friday in the opener of a four-game series at UC San Diego. The Golden Eagles will play another single game on Saturday before concluding the series next Sunday with a doubleheader at Reeder Field.