After playing a pair of high-scoring games Saturday, the Central College baseball team dropped a narrow 4-3 contest to Illinois Wesleyan University Sunday.

Central (1-2) starting pitcher Max Steinlage kept the crooked numbers off the scoreboard in five innings of work, yielding just two runs on six hits and one walk with seven strikeouts. He exited with a 3-2 lead. Reliever Parker Jones was stuffed with the loss after giving up two runs in the seventh that put the Titans in the lead for good. Shortstop Logan McCoy was the only Dutch player with multiple hits, registering a pair of base knocks as the lead off hitter. Designated hitter Caleb Douglass’s RBI double in the fourth put Central on the board. Right fielder Colton DeRocher and first baseman Declan O’Hare each drove in a run in the fifth.

The Dutch have a three-gamer series in Mount Vernon against Cornell College next weekend, starting with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday.