FOREST, Va. – The tandem of Skyler Dark (Pleasant Garden, N.C.) and Ryne Rodrigues (Summerfield, N.C.) were selected to represent the Guilford College baseball team by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) as All-ODAC Third Team honorees as announced by the conference offices on Friday evening.

Dark maintains his brilliant open to his Quakers career, becoming just the baseball program's fifth-ever three-time All-ODAC honoree, joining Brad Franklin '03, Isaiah Hairston '23, MISM '24, John Macon Smith '14, and A.J. McCauley '04. Making it three-for-three on all-conference caliber seasons over his tenure at Guilford, Dark joins McCauley as the only-two players in program history to gram All-ODAC honors in each of his first-three years in the cardinal and grey.

Dark served as Guilford's primary right fielder this season, but also saw a more-extended run in centerfield this spring compared to season's past. No matter where he played, the junior just raked posting significant upticks in production across the board though he does see himself slip to the All-ODAC Third Team after earning Second Team recognition each of his first two seasons. Showcasing arguably the best power-speed combo in the ODAC, Dark finished the regular season as the conference-leader in hits, with 65, and triples, with seven, ranking 14^th and seventh in the nation in those categories respectively. He also finished third in the league and 32^nd in the country in doubles, with 16, contributing to 101 total bases ranked third in the conference and 37^th Division-III baseball while his .417 batting average ranks fifth in the ODAC and 81^st in the nation at the regular season's conclusion. Overall, he accrued a .417/.489/.647 triple-slash line, ranking in the top-six in the league in batting average and slugging and in the top-20 in on-base and finishing with a 1.136 OPS that ranks eighth. Scoring 40 runs, Dark finished the regular season leading the team and ranked in the top-20 in that stat as well, while driving in 30 RBI and drawing a team-best 21 walks. He did dip a touch in league play this spring, sporting a .370/.452/.506 slash line, but he still bashed seven doubles and a couple triples against conference foes while drawing more walks, 10, than strikeouts, nine.

Already among the league's top producers after a 2025 season that saw him finish in the top-15 in the ODAC in OPS, Rodrigues nabs his first conference honor after finishing his senior season on an absolute heater at the dish. From the final day of March on, he blitzed opposing pitching to the tune of a .453/.520/.922 slash with 28 runs scored and 21 driven in as 16 of his 29 hits went for extra-bases including seven longballs, adding over 80 points to his overall batting average in that span and doing a lot of that damage against league foes. The result was a final line of .364/.455/.667 that features a team-best mark for slugging that only sat behind ODAC Player of the Year, Jack Pokorak of Lynchburg in the league ranks while only trailing Dark on the team for batting average and on-base. This added up to a 1.122 OPS that ranked right behind his All-ODAC colleague at ninth in the league. Rodrigues finished as the team's top overall source of runs, combining for 72 cumulative runs scored and RBIs despite not pacing the team in either category, nonetheless ranking in the league's top-20 in RBIs and top-30 in runs scored at the end of the regular season. Blasting a team-high 10 homeruns, good for the program's 14^th double-digit homer season in program history Rodrigues became the 11^th separate individual to record 10-plus homeruns in a year. In the league, he was one-of-five to reach double-digit longballs on the campaign with three of the other four being All-ODAC First Team selections. Rodrigues also finished tied for second on the Quakers with 10 doubles, and was one-of-two players in the ODAC with double-digit doubles and homers this season. Meanwhile he took more walks than strikeouts, with 16 free passes against 14 Ks, her finished tied for the team-lead in HBPs with seven and went 6-6 on steals, the second-most on the team. Isolating ODAC play, Rodrigues finished as the team's top hitter, slashing .378/.477/.608 with five doubles, four homers, 22 runs scored and 12 RBI.

For the second-straight year, the Quakers entered the final weekend with a chance to crack the ODAC Tournament field but came up just short, finishing with their fourth-straight 19-plus win season at 19-20 but 6-14 in league play.

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