The first three games for the St. Joseph Mustangs were supposed to be to figure out who will be the regular starters.

After his two hits and two RBIs in Saturday night’s 10-2 rout of the Omaha Diamond Spirit, Brent Seifert has no worries about his playing time on this team.

“What’s nice about him is that he can play three positions for us — third, center, first, and we can DH him,” manager Matt Johnson said. “He’s a guy we’ve got to keep in the lineup every single day, the way he’s swinging.”

Seifert singled, tripled and scored two runs as the Mustangs ran their record to 3-0 heading into MINK League play.

This time, Seifert manned first base, and was instrumental as the Mustangs got off to a 2-0 lead in the second inning without getting the ball out of the infield.

He led off by beating out an infield hit, and the Diamond Spirit committed three errors over the next two at-bats – one each by the pitcher, second baseman and shortstop -- plating Seifert and Greg Noble.

Starting pitcher Eric Schweiger was saddled with the loss, but despite retiring after 2 2/3 innings with a 7-0 deficit, fanned seven Mustangs in his stint.

St. Joseph did most of its damage in the third inning, scoring five runs on five hits, including a triple by Seifert and a two-run single to right-center by Rob Lind. The Mustangs batted around in the frame, with Kyle Wooden and Noble adding run-scoring singles.

Seifert was instrumental in Friday night’s 6-5 win over Building Champions as well, with a two-run, go-ahead double in the eighth inning.

“I’m seeing the ball well, making contact and so far, it’s finding places,” Seifert said.

“He’s a pure hitter,” Johnson said of Seifert, a Cameron, Mo., native who played this season of Iowa Western. “He’s got some of the strongest hands I’ve ever seen. You watch him take BP and he puts on a clinic.”

Brett Harvel (1-0) struck out five in four innings of one-hit ball in his Mustangs debut after finishing a solid career at Northwest Missouri State. A.J. Huttenlocker, who recently concluded his own successful career at Missouri Western, struck out five and allowed on run over three innings. Billy Gura and Dominic Marchesi pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth, respectively, with Marchesi rebounding from a poor outing on Friday night.

The Diamond Spirit (1-3) got a run in the sixth on an RBI single by Brett Koehn that scored Anthony Bazant, who tripled off Huttenlocker. Jake Jadlowski scored for Omaha in the eighth when he was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a double by Cody Falk and came home on a passed ball.