Photo by Dan Vanderbeek.

The Casey Klunder Era of Central College Baseball got off to a great start Tuesday Night into Wednesday Morning with a doubleheader sweep of the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The Dutch won the opener 9-3 and finished off the sweep with a 5-2 victory over the Yellow Jackets.

Central jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning with a 2-RBI double by Colton DeRocher down the right field line. UW-Superior would plate three in the middle innings to take a 3-2 advantage into the final frame of the seven-inning game. With one out in the top of the seventh, the Dutch rallied to score seven runs on four hits, two walks and two errors. Pitcher Landon Vander Leest would strike out the side in the bottom half of the inning to pick up the win. Lucas Farren provided a 3-4 performance at the plate and scored two runs in game one.

The Dutch controlled game two from the first pitch of the contest. Central scored in five of the six innings they batted. Farren got the scoring started for the Dutch with a sacrifice fly to plate Logan McCoy in the bottom of the first. McCoy would then knock in Quinn Miller on a sacrifice fly in the second. In the fourth inning, Dom DeLaPaz singled to score Miller, before Garrett Finley hit in Declan O’Hare with a single in the fifth. The Yellow Jackets would plate two in the top of the sixth inning to cut the Central lead to 4-2. Logan McCoy would add an insurance run in the bottom of the frame with a single that scored Tyler Sass. UW-Superior got runners on second and third with the tying run coming to the plate with two outs in the final frame, but Kurby Vowels would get the final batter to ground out to pick up the two-inning save. Declan O’Hare grabbed the win in game two, and Garrett Finley led the charge offensively with a 3-3 day at the plate.

The Dutch return to the diamond this Sunday at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational in Auburndale, Florida against Illinois Wesleyan at 2 p.m.