**In the absence of an in-person awards banquet to wrap up 2019-20 for CSB Athletics, all awards will be released on gobennies.com and the department's social media accounts. This week, the top moments of the year will be released each day starting May 4 leading into the year's top moment on Friday, May 8. The moments released Monday through Thursday are in no particular order.**
 
ST. JOSEPH, Minn. – This week, several key team performances from the 2019-20 seasons have been highlighted as some of the top moments for the College of Saint Benedict athletics. As well as having plenty of team success throughout the school year, CSB student-athletes experienced some big individual milestones and achievements as well.
 
Grace Gilmore had the biggest day of her CSB softball career during the team's spring break trip in Arizona in March. Meanwhile, in October, 14 of the Bennie cross country team's runners recorded career-best times at a mid-season meet.
 
In her sophomore season with the Saint Benedict softball team, Gilmore made nine appearances on the mound and recorded 39 strikeouts. Nearly half of those strikeouts came in a single game.
 
In the Bennies' final game of their 2020 spring break trip, Gilmore took the mound against Pitt.-Bradford. In a tight game, she struck out a career-high 16 batters to help CSB to a 1-0 win. Of the 23 batters she faced, she retired 16 – which also happens to be her jersey number – while giving up just two hits and one walk. Combined with a single CSB error, Pitt.-Bradford stranded just two base runners all game.
 
Sixteen strikeouts marked a career-best for Gilmore, and the most for any Bennie pitcher since 2013. It also marked the fifth-most strikeouts in a game in Division III in 2020.
 
It's not unusual for a runner or two to record a career-best time during a race, but on Oct. 4, 14 of the 18 runners competing for Saint Benedict ran career-best times at the UW-Eau Claire Invite in Colfax, Wis. Of those 14 personal bests, five moved runners up or into CSB's list of top 6K times in program history.
 
Leading the way for the Bennies, as she did all season, was sophomore Tracy Renier, who moved into a tie for 22^nd in program history. Althea Gutzmann moved into 34^th in CSB history, Taylor Santangelo made the move into 40^th in CSB history. Kennedy Rude and Johanna Merten also cracked the program's top 50 list for the first time. Rude moved into 42^nd, while Merten's time left her 44^th in Saint Benedict cross country history. Renier and Gutzmann finished in the top 50 at the race, while Santangelo, Rude and Merten all finished top-80.
 
Kristiana Anderson, Sara Wall, Jane Meilander, Katelyn Barclay, Emily Demorett, Ariana Mollgaard, Krystiana Connelly, Nicole Erickson and Sarah Carney also recorded personal-best times.