D3BASEBALL.COM ANNOUNCES ALL-REGION TEAM
D3baseball.com named its All-Region Team on Tuesday, and the AMCC saw three student-athletes on that list. Penn State Behrend baseball junior Dylan Barnes, along with Penn State Altoona seniors Jonathan Rauch and Brian Chelli were named to the 2026 D3baseball.com All-Region 7 Team. Players were nominated for these awards by the Sports Information Directors at the various schools.
Barnes, a Second Team selection as an outfielder, was named AMCC Player of the Year and landed on the All-AMCC First Team. He finished second on the team with a .417 batting average, competing in 42 games and registering 63 hits in 151 at-bats. Barnes led with seven home runs, while ranking second in RBIs (43) and fourth in doubles (15). He scored 45 runs and boasted a .669 slugging percentage. Barnes delivered his 100th RBI this season against Alfred State in the AMCC Championship game and recorded a 15-game hitting streak during the season. He tallied 19 multi-hit games and eight contests with two or more RBIs. Barnes ranks 40th in NCAA Division III statistics in base on balls per game (28).
Rauch, named to the Third Team, played in 35 games this season and put together an impressive senior campaign. He led the AMCC in home runs (13), total bases (103), and slugging percentage (.805) while also ranking third in RBI (43) and on-base percentage (.497), fourth in batting average (.414), eighth in hits (53), ninth in runs scored (39), 12th in doubles (11), and 15th in walks (18). Rauch also earned one AMCC Player of the Week award this season, picking up the recognition on March 16.
Chelli, also a Third Team honoree, also had a standout senior season with the Lions while playing in 36 games. He ranked within the top 10 in the conference in many offensive statistical categories, leading the league in stolen bases (31) while being fourth in triples (3), fifth in slugging percentage (.650), sixth in total bases (89), seventh in runs scored (40) and home runs (6), eighth in hits (53), doubles (12), RBI (37), and on-base percentage (.468), and ninth in batting average (.387).