MENOMONIE, Wis.- UW-Oshkosh baseball won games three and four of its series with UW-Stout at Nelson Field in Menomonie on Saturday (May 3). They won the first game 16-11 and the second 17-3 in seven innings to finish the regular season with eight straight wins.
 
The Titans (29-11, 20-8 WIAC) scored 33 runs on 38 hits and 12 walks across the victories. Receiving votes from D3baseball.com and ranked 27th by the American Baseball Coaches Association this week, they reached 20 conference victories, the most under head coach Kevin Tomasiewicz, for the first time since going 20-4 and winning the regular season title in 2007.
 
Josh Jansen (DeForest/DeForest) made his team-best seventh start of the season in the third game of the series, going 5.2 innings with six strikeouts including three in the third inning. He allowed eight runs (seven earned) on seven hits, seven walks, and a hit batter before moving to 7-2 on the year with the win. Cooper Kamlay (Franklin/Franklin) relieved him in the sixth inning and pitched 1.1 frames with two strikeouts on four hits for three runs. Ryan Richter (Waukesha/Waukesha West) threw the final two innings and held the Blue Devils scoreless on one hit and a walk with two strikeouts.
 
As a team, the Titans recorded six doubles, a triple, a home run, and 11 stolen bases in the first contest of the day. The 11 stolen bases are a program record and the second-most in a game in WIAC history. Five scored at least two runs and two RBIs and all nine position players reached first base safely at least once.
 
Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson) went perfect at the plate in Saturday's first game, hitting 5-for-5 with two doubles, two runs, and three stolen bases. Jack McNamara (La Grange, Ill./Lyons) led Oshkosh with five runs and Zach Taylor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) tallied a team best four RBIs.
 
UW-Oshkosh put runners on second and third with one out in the top of the first inning before scoring both runs on a Taylor single to center field. UW-Stout got on the board in the bottom half of the inning with an unearned run on a passed ball.
 
McNamara led off the second inning with a walk, advancing around the bases in the following two plate appearances and reaching home when Jake Surane (Lincolnshire, Ill./Stevenson) singled up the middle of the infield. Surane then scored on Taylor's double to right center to put Oshkosh up, 4-1.
 
A Logan Schill (Pewaukee/Pewaukee) triple sent McNamara and Housinger home in the third inning and he scored the Titans' seventh run when Nick Shiu (Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township) singled through the right side.
 
After another run for the Blue Devils in the third inning, Oshkosh added another four runs on four hits in the fifth. Mason Kirchberg (DeForest/DeForest) led off the inning with a solo shot to center field. McNamara reached on a single in the next at-bat and stole second before Schill hit a single to sent him across the plate. Schill stole second and scored when Shiu singled to center field. Shiu then stole second, advanced to third then scored back-to-back groundouts by Surane and Taylor.
 
In the top of the sixth inning, McNamara and Schill drew consecutive walks before scoring on Surane's single to center field.
 
The Blue Devils added seven runs on five hits in the bottom of the sixth inning including a two-out grand slam.
 
Oshkosh's 14th, 15th, and 16th runs were tallied in the seventh inning. Housinger scored on Kirchberg's sacrifice fly to center field, Brenden Max (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) scored on McNamara's double to left center, and McNamara scored on Shiu's single through the right side.
 
Two Blue Devils crossed the plate in the eighth inning with an RBI single and an RBI fielder's choice.
 
Kirchberg reached first base on an error as the Titans' leadoff batter in the ninth inning and swiped Oshkosh's 11th bag of the game before the next three batters went down in order.
 
Richter issued a walk to the first Blue Devil he faced in the last half inning but struck out the next and induced a pair of flyouts to secure the win for Oshkosh.
 
The Titans started Brett Gaynor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) on the mound in the series finale. He improved to an 8-3 record with the complete game win. Across seven innings, he struck out seven batters including two in the fifth against three runs on six hits and a walk.

Taylor and Stebane both went 4-for-5 with a home run in game two. Taylor added a double with four runs and two RBIs while Stebane recorded three runs and three RBIs.      Kirchberg hit 2-for-2 with a pair of walks, three runs, an RBI, and two stolen bases. Schill, Stebane, and Housinger all registered a stolen base.
 
Schill drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a wild pitch, and to third on a passed ball. Taylor singled to center field to advance him home before scoring on Stebane's home run to left field.
 
Oshkosh jumped up to a five-run edge in the top of the second inning. McNamara hit a sacrifice fly to center field that sent Max home and Kirchberg scored on a wild pitch.
 
UW-Stout scored two runs in the bottom half of the inning with a solo home run and an RBI double.
 
The Titans loaded the bases with one out in the top of the third inning and scored six runs before they recorded out number three. In consecutive at-bats, Max hit a sacrifice fly, Kirchberg singled to center field, McNamara reached on an error, and Schill singled up the middle. After Schill advanced to second on a wild pitch during Shiu's time at the plate, he singled through the right side and both McNamara and Schill reached home to make the score 11-2.
 
The Blue Devils tallied their final run of the series with a solo home run in the bottom of the third.
 
Taylor started the scoring for Oshkosh in the fourth inning when he scored on a double steal with Stebane. Housinger later sent Stebane home on a single down the right field line. McNamara scored Housinger with a sacrifice fly and Kirchberg reached home on an error after Schill singled to first base.
 
In the fifth and seventh innings, Taylor homered to left field and Stebane scored Surane on a single while Gaynor kept the Blue Devils off the board and put them down in order in the seventh for the shortened victory.
 
The Titans will compete in the WIAC Tournament (presented by Culver's) as the three seed in Whitewater. They begin the tournament by facing No. 2 seed UW-La Crosse on Thursday (April 8) at 3 p.m. Top seed and host UW-Whitewater will face No. 4 seed UW-Platteville at noon. The losers of the first round games will play at 10 a.m. on Friday (April 9) and the winners will play at 1 p.m. The winner of the tournament will earn the WIAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship.