GREENWOOD, Ind.- Five members of the UW-Oshkosh baseball team were named College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® on Tuesday (June 3).
 
Brett Gaynor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson), Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson), Mason Kirchberg (DeForest/DeForest), Jack McNamara (La Grange, Ill./Lyons), and Jake Surane (Lincolnshire, Ill./Stevenson) all collected their Academic All-District® honors. Surane was selected to move on to Academic All-America® voting.
 
Gaynor is a finance major with a 3.61 cumulative grade-point average. A pitcher with 10 starts and four relief appearances this season, he posted a 6-3 record with a save and led the WIAC with three complete games which ranks 27th in NCAA Division III. Across 67 innings pitched, he struck out 49 batters against 15 walks and allowed just eight hits that went for three bases or more. His first career shutout came on April 17 when he threw the 12th no-hitter in program history against UW-River Falls at Tiedemann Field. He struck out six batters with no walks and retired 20 of the 21 batters he faced; an error in the fourth inning prevented him from completing the second perfect game in program history. He was honored the following week as the WIAC Kwik Trip Pitcher of the Week, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Honorable Mention Pitcher of the Week and was named to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week.
 
Housinger owns a 3.83 cumulative GPA as a business management major. The third baseman started 48 of his 49 games played and posted a .344 batting average with an .839 on-base plus slugging percentage. In 189 at-bats, he recorded 65 hits including nine doubles, two triples, and two home runs while scoring 40 runs and registering 33 RBIs. He was walked 14 times, struck out 13 times, and successfully stole a base on 10 attempts. Housinger recorded 21 multi-hit games this season including 15 two-hit contests and was one of four Titans with a five-hit day at the plate when he went 5-for-5 with a walk, two doubles, two runs scored, and three stolen bases during UW-Oshkosh's 16-11 slugfest win over UW-Stout on May 3.
 
With a 3.56 cumulative GPA, Kirchberg is an accounting and finance double major. He started 50 games at second base this season and was one of three Titans to pace the team with eight home runs. He hit .305 across the season with a .949 OPS in 187 at-bats with 57 hits, 15 doubles, and two triples. Kirchberg scored 40 runs and sent in 35 RBIs with 22 walks and a team high 15 hit by pitches. He was selected as the WIAC Kwik Trip Position Player of the Week and named to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week after hitting .600 with a 1.898 OPS on nine hits, a double, three home runs, two walks, a hit by pitch, eight runs, and seven RBIs while stealing four bases.
 
A physical education major with a 3.70 cumulative GPA, McNamara played 46 games as catcher with 42 starts. He recorded a .290 batting average with a .823 OPS, 45 hits including 11 doubles, two triples, two home runs, 39 runs, and 31 RBIs in 155 at-bats. He was also walked 27 times and was hit by three pitches to bump his on-base percentage up to .397. The WIAC leader with six sacrifice bunts posted a .993 fielding percentage behind the plate with just two errors. During Oshkosh's national tournament opener against the University of Chicago (Ill.), he went 3-for-5 with a walk, a two-run single, a three-run home run, and three runs scored.
 
Surane, who earned his bachelor's degree last year, is currently a graduate student who is studying for his master's degree in business administration. He owned a 3.56 cumulative undergraduate GPA and currently holds a 3.84 cumulative graduate GPA. The UW-Oshkosh career leader in at-bats (801), hits (284), doubles (64), and stolen bases (89), Surane also ranks in the top-three in WIAC history in each statistical category. The starting center fielder in all 51 games recorded 75 hits this season, the 20th-most in Division III this year. His program season record of 224 at-bats helped him notched a team best 52 RBIs. He had a .335 batting average with an .894 OPS, 15 doubles, three triples, and five home runs with 51 runs scored while stealing 20 bases on 22 attempts and posting a .988 fielding percentage with two errors.
 
UW-Oshkosh, ranked 25th in the nation by D3baseball.com and 21st by the American Baseball Coaches Association in the final regular season polls, won 35 games for the first time since 2007 and made its 26th appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship. The Titans won a regional title for the 18th time in program history when they defeated Chicago, 10-2, to secure the Saint Peter, Minnesota Regional crown. They faced UW-Whitewater in the Super Regional and forced game three with a 5-2 win in game two on May 24 before the Warhawks won the best-of-three tournament. The Titans set team records in at-bats (1,835), hits (588), stolen bases (114), and innings pitched (440.0) this year.
 
Ten Titans were named All-WIAC on May 14, led by Connor Brinkman (New London/New London) who was named to the first team for the fourth consecutive season. Gaynor and Zach Taylor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) also collected first team honors. Josh Jansen (DeForest/DeForest), Kirchberg, Ryan Richter (Waukesha/Waukesha West), Logan Schill (Pewaukee/Pewaukee), Nick Shiu (Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township), Carter Stebane (Brillion/Brillion), and Surane were all named honorable mention and Stebane was UW-Oshkosh's representative on the all-sportsmanship team.
 
Taylor headlined UW-Oshkosh's all-region honors on May 27 when D3baseball.com and the ABCA released their annual lists. He earned second team honors from both organizations while Stebane was an ABCA First Team selection, Surane was named ABCA Second Team for the third time, and Brinkman was named D3baseball.com Third Team.
 
The 2025 CSC Academic All-District® Baseball Team, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes baseball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
 
Academic All-District® honorees are considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
 
The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.