UNIVERSITY PARK — Both Penn State baseball and softball teams players are collecting honors after what were successful seasons with explosive offensive performances by both teams in 2025.
The baseball team, which finished the year with 33 wins, announced that three players, junior outfielder Paxton Kling, sophomore DH Jack Porter and junior pitcher Ryan DeSanto, were all named to the ABCA All Region East Second Team.
It is the third time in program history that the team had three All Region selections and the first time it had three in consecutive seasons.
At the same time, the Penn State softball team announced that four of its players were named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Northeast Region Teams.
Senior third baseman Maddie Gordon, sophomore DH Brooke Klosowicz and fifth-year first baseman Meagan Ricks were named to the Second Team, while senior right fielder Haylie Brunson was chosen for the Third Team.
In addition, Klosowicz was ranked as the No. 83 player in the Softball America Postseason Top 100 and as the No. 98 player in the D1 Softball Postseason D100 Player Rankings. Klosowicz was one of 15 players selected out of the Big Ten in the D1 Softball Rankings.
Kling, who is from Roaring Spring and played at Central, was named to the Big Ten First Team and the Big Ten All-Defensive Team. In this season, Kling led Penn State in batting average (.358), hits (76), runs (63) and slugging percentage (.632), and he tied for the team high in home runs with 13 and drove in 54 runs.
Porter, a DH from Clearwater, Florida, was a Big Ten Second Team selection with a .331 batting average, 11 doubles, eight home runs and 30 RBIs in Big Ten Play. Overall, he batted .310 with 57 hits, 38 RBIs and 44 runs.
And DeSanto, from Tuscarora, Maryland, made 15 starts in 2025 for the Lions with an 8-2 record and a 3.96 ERA. He had 72 strikeouts in 72 innings and held opponents to 54 hits. In the Big Ten, DeSanto was 5-2 with 48 strikeouts in 52 innings.
Penn State will also have three players take part in the MLB Draft Combine at Chase Field in Arizona.
DeSanto, Kling and junior shortstop Ryan Weingartner will take part in the Combine scheduled for Tuesday, June 17, through Saturday, June 21.
Weingartner started all 56 games for Penn State this year with 56 hits, 14 doubles, one triple, 11 home runs and 40 RBIs. He also stole 30 bases and walked 44 times.
In all, the Penn State baseball team, coached by Mike Gambino, posted a 33-23 record, its second-most wins in a season, and made it to the Big Ten Semifinals for the second year in a row.
The Penn State softball team celebrated its 60th anniversary with a 25-win season and a trip to the Big Ten Quarterfinals.
The team broke single-season program records in batting average, home runs, RBIs, runs scored and total bases.
Klosowicz, from Johnsburg, Illinois, posted a .422 batting average and set single-season records in doubles (23) and RBIs (53). She had a team-high 65 hits, 38 for extra-bases and 13 home runs.
Ricks, from Winter Haven, Florida, hit .359 overall with 20 extra-base hits, 12 doubles and eight home runs.
Gordon, a four-year veteran from Shenandoah Virginia, batted .342 for the year with 12 home runs and a 1.122 OPS. She finished her career with 28 home runs, the fourth highest in program history.
Brunson, from Mount Pleasant, batted .345 in 2025 with 13 home runs and 49 RBIs, and she became Penn State’s 52nd All-Region selection overall.
The four selections this season matched the record four selections set by the 1995 Atlantic 10 Champion Penn State team.
