In the final home games of the year for the Central College baseball team Sunday afternoon, Central swept Iowa Wesleyan University 4-3, 6-0. The Dutch (21-13) needed a seventh-inning rally to beat the Tigers (8-26-1) in the first game of the doubleheader. Trailing 3-2 entering the bottom of the inning, Central scored two runs on three hits and two walks. Tanner Wood, a Pella navite, drove in the game-winning run with a single through the right side.

“It wasn’t exactly how we drew it up,” coach Matt Schirm said. “But their starting pitcher did a nice job. It was a tough day offense with the wind blowing in. We had some hard-hit balls that got hung up in the wind.”

Wood drove in three more runs in the second game while shortstop Garrett Saunders was 3-for-4 at the plate. Wood also pitched the first three innings, giving up one hit and walking two with three strikeouts to get the win.

Brent Parker, a Twin Cedars graduate, got his first career start in right field.

Saunders, Wood, Ryan Bouwman and Coy Moore, also of Twin Cedars, started in both games. Adam Carey (Pella) pitched a perfect fourth inning of the nightcap

Central has a three-game series against Nebraska Wesleyan University this weekend in Lincoln. Central currently is fifth in the American Rivers Conference standings and can secure a spot in the league’s tournament against the Prairie Wolves.