WHITEWATER, Wis.- UW-Oshkosh baseball salvaged a season series split with UW-Platteville on Monday (April 13) with a 10-9 win in the first game that was a continuation of Sunday's (April 12) suspended contest and a 12-6 victory in the finale. Platteville won the third game of the series, 12-1, in seven innings.
 
Oshkosh (10-15, 6-8 WIAC) fended off a Pioneer (16-9, 7-7 WIAC) comeback late in Monday's first game at UW-Whitewater's Prucha Field before Platteville scored the first 10 runs of the shortened second game. The Titans bounced back with 15 hits – their second-most in a game this season – in the third game of the day, recording at least two RBI in four of their six scoring plays.
 
The Pioneers outhit Oshkosh in two of the three contests and held a 34-29 edge across the trio of games.
 
Titan pitchers held Platteville batters, who entered Monday ranked 12th in the nation with a .349 average, to .222 in the series finale and .300 in the split game.
 
The Titans entered Monday's first game with a 5-1 lead after scoring four runs in the first inning and adding another in the second. The Pioneers plated their first run in the bottom of the second frame with an RBI single.
 
Brett Gaynor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) started the contest for the Titans and struck out three batters while scattering six hits and giving out a walk and hitting a batter for a run.
 
The game was suspended with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the third inning.
 
Cooper Kamlay (Franklin/Franklin) took the mound when play resumed and stranded both runners when he got pinch hitter Xander Martinez on strikes.
 
Oshkosh extended its lead to 7-1 in the fourth inning when Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson) singled Gavin Persson (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) home on a single before scoring on a Trevor Morris (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) double. Both Persson and Jack McNamara (La Grange, Ill./Lyons), who walked, were left on base when Pioneer reliever Wyatt Fischer got Platteville out of the jam.
 
Following a Persson RBI groundout in the top of the fifth, Platteville cut the deficit to 8-7 in the bottom half of the inning with a two-RBI single that scored another run on an error and a three-run home run.
 
The Pioneers claimed the lead at 9-8 in the seventh inning when a walk and a hit batter plated runs in back-to-back bases-loaded plate appearances.
 
After a three-up, three-down eighth inning for both teams, Logan Schill (Pewaukee/Pewaukee) reached on an error in the ninth, moved to second base on a McNamara fly out and tied the score at 9-9 on another Platteville error. Braydon Skenandore (De Pere/West De Pere) got on on the error and advanced to second on a wild pitch before David Wick (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) was sent in as a pinch runner. Aaron Davis (Darien, Ill./Downers Grove South) sent Wick in for the go-ahead run in the following at-bat. Brenden Max (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) was issued a six-pitch walk after Platteville put in a relief pitcher, but both runners were left on.
 
Following a series of defensive changes, Ben Buehring (Oshkosh/Oshkosh West) (1-1) secured the win with a pair of swinging strikeouts and a fielder's choice out. He finished the outing with 2.1 innings of work, holding the Pioneers scoreless and hitless while accumulating four strikeouts against the single walk.
 
Aidan Kelsick (0-1), Platteville's third of four relief pitchers, was assigned the loss. He pitched 2.2 innings and allowed two unearned runs on two hits while striking out two.
 
The Pioneers jumped on Titan starter Connor Walters (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) for 10 runs in the first two innings of the day's second game. He dropped to 2-2 on the season as he posted 2.0 innings, allowing 10 runs (six earned) on nine hits against four strikeouts.
 
Platteville's Sam Callow and Josh Dahlgren held the Titans to five hits in the game and totaled six strikeouts. Callow improved to 5-0 after throwing six innings of five-hit, one-run work.
 
Platteville added its 11th and 12th runs of the game in the fifth and sixth innings after Danny Connelly (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) plated Max with an RBI groundout in the top half of the fifth.
 
Stranding Aaron Davis (Darien, Ill./Downers Grove South) on base in the top of the seventh with an 11-run lead, the Pioneers earned their first seven-inning win over Oshkosh since 2022.
 
Led by 3-for-5, two-RBI games from both Skenandore and Max, Oshkosh hit .366 in the contest with a season-high 12 RBI. Schill, Max and Persson all hit a home run while Morris hit two of Oshkosh's three doubles and Schill notched a triple.
 
Platteville struck first in the series finale, plating two runs in the bottom of the first inning.
 
The lead did not last long however, as Max hit a leadoff double and scored on Davis' single up the middle of the infield. Cash Kaczmarek (Barrington, Ill./Lake Zurich) was hit by a pitch and he scored alongside Davis when Persson hit his first collegiate home run to make the score 4-0.
 
While the Titans did not add to their lead in the third inning, starter Baris Brua (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) faced the minimum in both the second and third frames, throwing an effective 10 pitches in the second inning and six in the third.
 
Oshkosh pushed its lead to 9-2 in the fourth when Schill and Max both homered. Schill's shot plated three runs and Max's brought in two more runs.
 
The Pioneers cut into the edge with an RBI single and a three-run home run in the fourth inning, but the Titans held them off with two runs in the fifth frame and another in the seventh. Skenandore recorded both RBI in the fifth with a single through the middle of the infield and Schill sent in Morris in the seventh with a sacrifice fly.
 
Brua moved to 2-2 on the season with the win. He pitched 7.2 innings and fanned nine Pioneers against six runs (four earned) on eight hits, a walk and a hit batter.
 
The Titans forced the Platteville pitching staff to turn over five times in the game, and no Pioneer pitcher threw more than 2.2 innings. Five of the six Platteville pitchers allowed at least one run and only two recorded strikeouts.
 
Starter Aiden Schaapveld was assigned his first loss of the season after going just 1.2 innings and allowed four runs on five hits and a hit batter.
 
Max led the Titans at the plate in the three games, hitting 6-for-12 with a double, a triple, a home run, a walk, four runs and three RBI.
 
The Titans remain on the road, driving north to face UW-River Falls (13-11, 7-7 WIAC) at First National Bank of River Falls Field for a pair of doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday (April 18-19). Oshkosh is 29-6 all time against the Falcons dating back to the programs' first meeting in 1969 and 3-1 since River Falls reinstated its program in 2025 following a 23-year hiatus.