FOREST, Va. – Earning his second-straight nod from the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC), Skyler Dark (Pleasant Garden, N.C.) of the Guilford College baseball team was selected to the All-ODAC Second Team as announced by the conference offices on Thursday evening.
 
Becoming the 19^th multi-time All-ODAC selection in program history, Dark successfully accomplished something that not even program icons Isaiah Hairston '23, MISM '24 or Kyle Wooden '11 accomplished. The sophomore becomes the first Guilford baseball player to earn all-conference recognition in both seasons as an underclassman in program history after also making the All-ODAC Second Team last spring.
 
Starting all 38 games in the Quakers outfield, Dark turned in a .365/.436/.547 triple-slash line with nine doubles, four triples, and a team-high four home runs for Guilford. Ripping a team-leading 58 hits, tied for ninth-most in the ODAC at time of writing, to go with 19 free passes, Dark came around to score a team-best 50 times, tied for the fourth-most in the league although he reached that mark in 38 games, at least three fewer than every other 50-plus run scorer in the ODAC. He drove in 22 RBIs and added 11 steals in 13 attempts on top of five outfield assists defensively. What truly secured Dark's spot on the All-ODAC team, however, was the damage he did in league action during which he was the Quakers' top hitter. Hitting .382 with a .444 on-base and .607 slugging percentage, he led the team in both batting average and slugging among players with at least ten at-bats. Three of his four home runs came in conference action as did six of his steals, both team-highs, while his seven doubles and two triples were the second-most on the squad. He recorded a hit in every league game in which he had at least three at-bats and was held hitless in a game just four times overall in the team's 38 contests this season.
 
Compiling their highest win total since 2017, going 22-16, and their top win percentage since 2005 with a .579 mark, the Quakers unfortunately narrowly missed the ODAC Tournament, getting leapfrogged on the season's final day to finish ninth in the conference with an 8-14 mark.
 
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