Philadelphia, PA – After posting monstrous seasons in the lineup, La Salle's
Chase Swain and
Rueben Livingston have been named to All-Atlantic 10 Conference teams Tuesday afternoon, the Conference announced.
Swain was tabbed to the first-team, All-Atlantic 10 Conference in center field. Livingston was slotted on the second-team, All-Atlantic 10 Conference at third base, a position split with George Washington's Christino Tufano.
Swain, a redshirt-senior from Elsinboro, New Jersey, had one of the greatest offensive seasons in school history, matching the second-most hits (82) and runs (63) in a single-season at La Salle (82). The hits mark was good for second-overall in the A-10 this season and is one of nine offensive categories that Swain finished in the top 10 in the conference for. The others are: batting average (.378), on base percentage (.485), OPS (1.098), runs (63), triples (5, conference leader), at bats (217), walks (34), and stolen bases (23).
Swain played in 53 games for the Explorers, often as the team's leadoff hitter while patrolling center field. He finished the season red-hot while hawking down the school's leaderboard in hits, ending the campaign on a 13-game hit streak in which he batted .440 with eight multi-hit games and 15 runs scored.
The first-team, all-conference selection is a full-circle moment for Swain, who originally committed to La Salle while in high school in 2020 before the program was eliminated. He then followed La Salle head coach
David Miller to stops at Penn State-Abington and Manhattan before playing last season at West Virginia as a starter. He transferred to La Salle over the summer.
Livingston held down third base for the Explorers while also providing dynamic run creation in the lineup. The Reading, Pennsylvania, native slugged ten homers and hit .305 while batting in the middle of the order across 46 games played, all starts.
Livingston slugged .552 and got on base at a .402 clip, good for a .958 OPS. He drove in 38 RBI and also scored 38 runs. The redshirt-junior ended the season on a tear, hitting .442 with four homers in his final 12 games.
Swain and Livingston were part of a historic La Salle offense which made its mark in the school's record book. The Explorers shattered the team single season home run record (78) and also set the record for walks (314). It posted the second-highest runs scored (434) and stolen bases (98), fourth-most runs per game (7.89) and doubles (106), and sixth-most hits (513).
Outside of Swain and Livingston, the lineup produced up and down throughout the order.
Carter Groen set the single season RBI record (72) and
Alec Welshans hit the second-most home runs in a single season (18). Groen's 72 RBI matched Saint Joseph's Blake Primrose for most in the conference. Primrose was named the A-10 Player of the Year. Welshans' 18 homers were tied for second most in the A-10 among two others.