COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – A program record five Ursinus Baseball players were named to the Academic All District baseball team by the College Sports Communicators (CSC), that was announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Recent graduates
Dan Bass,
Max Shilstone, and
Kyle Rosenfeld along with rising juniors
Matthew Callahan and
Isaac Gesford represented the Bears on the team. The CSC Academic All-District baseball team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in the classroom and on the field of competition.
Bass, a media and communication studies graduate, had a career year for the Bears on the mound and has amassed numerous postseason nods. He earned All-Region honors from D3Baseball.com and the ABCA while making it on the All-Centennial First Team. Bas led the Centennial with 75 innings pitched and tied for the second-lowest ERA in the league at 3.72. He ranked second with 62 strikeouts in the Centennial Conference and led the league with three complete games with his third coming in his final collegiate start in a win over Washington College in the Centennial Conference Tournament. Bass tied for third in the Centennial and led the Bears with six wins.
An applied economics graduate, Shilstone was an unsung hero for the Bears in 2026 as he led the Centennial Conference with the lowest ERA among qualified starters at 3.00. He earned All-Centennial Second Team honors behind striking out 18 batters in a career-high 48 innings pitched. He ranked second on the team with five wins to just one loss and delivered his only complete game win when the Bears needed him the most in the regular season finale against Johns Hopkins to send the Bears to the Centennial Conference Tournament for the first time since 2017.
Rosenfeld, an applied economics graduate, was a key piece to the Bears lineup as he set career highs across the board statistical wise. He tallied a .289 batting average behind 43 hits and recorded 21 RBI's, five doubles, and tied for fourth on the team with 31 runs scored. Rosenfeld recorded 13 multi-hit contests and stole seven bases.
A finance major, Callahan helped power the Bears offense in a breakout season as he led the team with a .379 batting average 64 hits. He ranked third on the team with 48 runs scored and second on the team with 12 doubles. Callahan ranked fourth on the team with 37 RBI's and with 12 solen bases and posted 20 multi-hit contests.
Gesford, a finance major, was one of the Bears best power bats in 2026 as he ranked second on the team with 49 RBI's while having three doubles and two home runs. Gesford ranked fifth on the team with a .299 batting average while ranking fifth on the team with 47 hits and scored 24 runs with 11 stolen bases. He recorded 11 multi0hit contests.
