The Central College baseball team was recognized by the American Baseball Coaches Association for its work in the classroom, receiving the Team Academic Excellence Award.
The Dutch compiled a 3.05 combined team grade point average (4.0 scale) to qualify for the honor. Central was one of 80 NCAA Division III programs recognized and one of just three schools from the American Rivers Conference. In 2018, Garrett Saunders was a Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District pick in addition to his Academic all-Iowa Conference recognition. Ryan Bouwman, Corey Broxson, Kaiden Fiebelkorn, Zach Greder, Brent Parker of Bussey, Dallyn Putz, Tanner Wood of Pella and Blake Wooten also earned academic all-conference honors in the spring.