WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Ben Nisle's 1.000 OPS and team-leading totals for hits, home runs and RBI helped earn the Purdue outfielder a place on the American Baseball Coaches Association's All-Midwest Region teams presented by Rawlings,
Nisle was a second-time honoree as the Boilermakers' first All-Region performer since 2012. Earlier this month, he joined teammates Miles Simington and Mike Bolton, Jr. as third-team All-Big Ten honorees.
Nisle connected for a career-high eight home runs and 22 extra-base hits while joining Simington as the only Purdue players to start all 42 games. He did it against strictly Big Ten competition. The four-year starter in left field joined 2012 Big Ten Player of the Year and current big leaguer Kevin Plawecki as the only Boilermakers of the BBCOR bat era (since 2011) to record a 1.000-plus OPS. Nisle was also a perfect 6-for-6 on stolen base attempts this year.
As Purdue's hottest hitter down the stretch, Nisle recorded a 13-game hit streak and seven-game RBI streak while reaching base safely in 30 of the team's final 31 games. For the season, he was only kept off base in four of the 42 games. Along the way, he scored the game-winning run in all three of Purdue's walk-off victories, which uniquely came in three different stadiums.
Nisle homered in consecutive games vs. Michigan in weekend No. 2, going deep over the replica Green Monster at Fluor Field in South Carolina both times. The April 2 series opener vs. Iowa at Alexander Field then marked the beginning of a stretch in which he became the only Boilermaker since 2001 to homer in five consecutive weekends. That memorable power surge was punctuated by his second career two-homer game in a win at Ohio State. He was part of both sets of Purdue's back-to-back home runs that day, a feat done only once before in the last 20 years of the program.
Nisle finished his Purdue career riding a 16-game on-base streak. By averaging .524 extra-base hits per game, he essentially matched Plawecki's mark (.525, 31 in 59 games) from the catcher's Big Player of the Year campaign.
With a .305 career average and 17 home runs in 133 games, Nisle became the first Boilermaker since Cameron Perkins and Plawecki – both big leaguers and the 3-4 combo in the lineup for much of the 2012 championship season – to finish their careers with a .300 average and at least 15 home runs. This year Nisle became the first Boilermaker since 2016 to homer in four consecutive seasons.
Brandon Haveman (2009) was the last Purdue outfielder to be named ABCA All-Region. Simington and Nisle gave the Boilermakers a pair of Big Ten outfielders this year for the first time since 2011.
Nisle was a second-time honoree as the Boilermakers' first All-Region performer since 2012. Earlier this month, he joined teammates Miles Simington and Mike Bolton, Jr. as third-team All-Big Ten honorees.
Nisle connected for a career-high eight home runs and 22 extra-base hits while joining Simington as the only Purdue players to start all 42 games. He did it against strictly Big Ten competition. The four-year starter in left field joined 2012 Big Ten Player of the Year and current big leaguer Kevin Plawecki as the only Boilermakers of the BBCOR bat era (since 2011) to record a 1.000-plus OPS. Nisle was also a perfect 6-for-6 on stolen base attempts this year.
As Purdue's hottest hitter down the stretch, Nisle recorded a 13-game hit streak and seven-game RBI streak while reaching base safely in 30 of the team's final 31 games. For the season, he was only kept off base in four of the 42 games. Along the way, he scored the game-winning run in all three of Purdue's walk-off victories, which uniquely came in three different stadiums.
Nisle homered in consecutive games vs. Michigan in weekend No. 2, going deep over the replica Green Monster at Fluor Field in South Carolina both times. The April 2 series opener vs. Iowa at Alexander Field then marked the beginning of a stretch in which he became the only Boilermaker since 2001 to homer in five consecutive weekends. That memorable power surge was punctuated by his second career two-homer game in a win at Ohio State. He was part of both sets of Purdue's back-to-back home runs that day, a feat done only once before in the last 20 years of the program.
Nisle finished his Purdue career riding a 16-game on-base streak. By averaging .524 extra-base hits per game, he essentially matched Plawecki's mark (.525, 31 in 59 games) from the catcher's Big Player of the Year campaign.
With a .305 career average and 17 home runs in 133 games, Nisle became the first Boilermaker since Cameron Perkins and Plawecki – both big leaguers and the 3-4 combo in the lineup for much of the 2012 championship season – to finish their careers with a .300 average and at least 15 home runs. This year Nisle became the first Boilermaker since 2016 to homer in four consecutive seasons.
Brandon Haveman (2009) was the last Purdue outfielder to be named ABCA All-Region. Simington and Nisle gave the Boilermakers a pair of Big Ten outfielders this year for the first time since 2011.