GREENSBORO, N.C. – Rylan Smith (Archdale, N.C.) swept All-Region VI recognition for the Guilford College baseball team, being named to the All-Region Third Team from both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings and D3Baseball.com as announced by the organizations on Tuesday.

The region's Rookie of the Year two years ago as named by D3Baseball.com, Smith returned to Greensboro after a one-year hiatus in the junior college ranks, picking up virtually right where he left off in 2023. Setting the bar incredibly high as a freshman, Smith did well to uphold it with a .401/.497/.620 triple-slash this season, pacing the Quakers in each category as those marks finished seventh, eighth, and seventh respectively in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) while his batting average is good for 105^th in the nation entering the Division-III Championship Finals. The team's top run-producer, with 41 runs batted in, he also scored 40 runs, both of which rank inside the top-20 in the league with the former mark slotting in 14^th in the ODAC. Also, the team leader in total bases, with 88, walks, with 25, and OPS, at 1.117, Smith finishes the year fifth in OPS in the conference thanks in part to his ability to do damage. Only connecting on three home runs this season, far less than his freshman total, the junior's power instead shone through with his ability to split gaps. With 22 doubles, no one in Region VI matched his total while only three men in Division-III baseball exceeded it. However, he accumulated that total in just 37 games to post a mark of 0.59 doubles per game over 37 contests, a mark that trailed only the 0.60 per contest from Washington & Lee University's Andrew Thornton, who hit 16 two-baggers, albeit in just 30 games.

The fourth-straight season with a player recognized on a D3Baseball.com All-Region team, this season is also the third in-a-row with a Quaker honored by ABCA/Rawlings at the regional level. Additionally, Smith is the sixth GC baseball player to be a multi-time All-Region honoree by either publication, joining Kyle Wooden '11, Kent Peterson '13, John Macon Smith '14, Corey Wallace '14, and, most recently, Isaiah Hairston '23, MISM '24.

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