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Rio Grande/RSC Sports Information
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced Wednesday that 510 women's softball student-athletes have been named 2019 Daktronics-NAIA Women's Softball Scholar-Athletes.
    The University of Rio Grande was represented on the list by juniors Michaela Criner (Bremen, OH) and Brooke Hoffman (Columbus Grove, OH). 

Rio Grande/NAIA Sports Information
    GULF SHORES, Ala. – Five representatives of the University of Rio Grande were among the 516 women's track & field student-athletes named 2019 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

Rio Grande/RSC Sports Information
    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The University of Rio Grande posted a sixth-place finish in the battle for the River States Conference Commissioner's All-Sports Cup.
    The RSC Commissioner's All-Sports Cup is based on the combined finish in all sports. The RSC Cup standings are tabulated based on regular-season finish in the sports that have regular-season standings. For sports that do not have regular-season standings, the championship meet or tournament is used.
    The standings are based on a 10-point scoring system. First place in a sport earns 10 points, second place earns nine and so on. For sports that have more than 10 schools competing, no points are earned for schools finishing below 10th place.
    Each school's point total is divided by the number of RSC championship sports sponsored by that school, which produces an average point total of each school out of 10.

Rio Grande Sports Information
    RIO GRANDE, Ohio – Six athletes – three men and three women – will be representing the University of Rio Grande in the 68th annual men's and 39th annual women's NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships, Thursday-Saturday, at the Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Ala.
    Two RedStorm athletes will compete each day.

RSC Sports Information
    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – Nine members of the University of Rio Grande softball team have been named to the 2019 River States Conference Softball Scholar-Athlete Team.
    A total of 72 student-athletes, representing nine different schools, were recognized.

RSC Sports Information
    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The 2019 River States Conference Baseball Scholar-Athlete Team includes seven student-athletes from the University of Rio Grande.
    Sixty-four individuals, representing each of the 10 RSC baseball schools were represented on the team.

RSC Sports Information
    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – Five student-athletes from the University of Rio Grande were among 49 recognized by the River States Conference for inclusion on the Men's Outdoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete Team.
    To be eligible, student-athletes must have a 3.25 grade-point average or higher, have at least two semesters of attendance prior to the current term, participate in men's outdoor track and field and be nominated by their institution.

RSC Sports Information
    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – Six student-athletes representing the University of Rio Grande were among the 60 recognized by the River States Conference with inclusion on the Women's Outdoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete Team.
    To be eligible, honorees must have a 3.25 grade-point average or higher, have at least two semesters of attendance prior to the current term, participate in outdoor track and field and be nominated by their institution.

RSC Sports Information
    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The 2019 River States Conference Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete team includes 34 honorees representing nine different RSC schools.
    The University of Rio Grande was represented on the list by Logan Sheets, a junior from Bidwell, Ohio.

Rio Grande Sports Information
    LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – To a large degree, Georgia Gwinnett College made its bones during the 2019 season with a potent offensive attack.
    But the eighth-ranked Grizzlies have also shown a propensity to be timely at the plate as well.
    In Wednesday afternoon's championship first final of the NAIA Softball National Championship Opening Round's Lawrenceville Bracket, the University of Rio Grande learned the accuracy of the latter.
    Sydney Pelaez delivered a one-out, run-scoring single in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie and, one out later, Holly Janco drove home Pelaez with a back-breaking insurance run to give the top-seeded Grizzlies a 4-2 win over the No. 4 seed RedStorm at a sun-splashed Grizzly Softball Complex.
    Georgia Gwinnett improved to 42-14 with the win – its second of the tourney and fourth of the season against Rio Grande – and earned a second straight berth to the NAIA World Series.
    Rio Grande, which was making its second appearance in an Opening Round title game in three seasons, finished its season at 36-16.