ARIA: Treat HTML element as a whole

Question

Is there any way to tell an assistive tool to treat an element (e.g: <div>) as a whole, and not split it in child elements?

First example

Using iOS VoiceOver and a with a field on it, it gets splitted into two different elements:

Second example

This elements are splitted in two parts, where the best solution would be read "122 points" and "First position":

<div class="row">
    <div class="stat lg col-xs-6">
        <span>122</span>
        <i class="icon icon-prize" aria-hidden="true"></i>
        <h5>Points</h5>
    </div>
    <div class="stat lg col-xs-6">
        <span>1º</span>
        <i class="icon icon-prize" aria-hidden="true"></i>
        <h5>Position</h5>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

I found that using role="button" the element is treated as a group and its innerText property is read, but announced as a button.