Casey Gaynor   •  RHP  • Rutgers • Sophomore

2007: Earned Division I First Team All-State honors by the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association as a freshman … After making one appearance as a reliever in the first series of the season at William & Mary (2/17), cracked the weekend rotation and started the rest of the season … Moved to No. 2 starter for the final two weeks of the regular season … Recorded 15 starts, including two post season starts against Louisville in the BIG?EAST?Tournament (5/23) and Lafayette (6/2) in the NCAA Tournament … Owned a 4-3 record … His 97.0 innings were the second-most on the team … Finished second on the team with 64 strikeouts … Was 3-1 in BIG EAST games … Pitched a pair of complete games in league play at St. John's (4/1) and against Seton Hall (4/14) … Recorded a career-high nine strikeouts in 6.1 innings in Rutgers' victory over Cincinnati (5/5) … Struck out seven in 7.2 innings in the win at Pittsburgh (5/12) … Pitched at least seven innings in six of 15 starts.

Before Rutgers: Named the New Jersey High School Pitcher of the Year by the Star Ledger … Also earned First Team All-State honors by the Star Ledger and Associated Press and named the Shore Player of the Year by the Asbury Park Press … Completed his high school career with a 34-4 record as Toms River East High School's top hurler … Broke 1970 Manasquan High School graduate Chip Hurst's 36-year-old Shore Conference record of 33 career victories … Finished with a 12-1 record with 135 strikeouts and just 21 walks, finishing with a 1.25 ERA in 84 innings as a senior … Set school career records in ERA (0.91), complete games (22), shutouts (12) and strikeouts (345) during his decorated career at Toms River East … Pitched the Raiders to four-consecutive league titles, while also leading the team to a pair of sectional championships … Owned a 5-0 record as a freshman, going 8-2 as a sophomore and 9-1 as a junior … Was a three-time All-State selection, earning second team honors as a sophomore and junior and first team laurels last spring … As an 11-year-old, played with former teammate Rutgers Todd Frazier on the Toms River East America All-Star team which captured the World Championship by winning the Little League World Series title in 1998 … Younger brother of former Scarlet Knight Colin Gaynor, who played first base and catcher for RU from 2003-05 ... Born 4/10/87.

Year ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO
2007 4.82 4-3 16 15 2 0/0 0 97.0 119 59 52 26 64