Hope College baseball player Ryan Konkle has been selected an American Baseball Coaches Association and a D3baseball.com All-Mideast Region First Team Selection for the 2016 season.

The senior leftfielder from Marshall, Michigan (Marshall HS) is now eligible for All-America consideration by both groups.

Konkle is one of 15 ABCA All-Mideast Region first-team honorees and three outfielders in that group. Players were nominated by coaches.

Konkle is one of 14 D3Baseball.com All-Mideast Region first-team all-regional honorees and three outfielders in that group. Players were nominated by sports information directors from Division III schools.

Hope coach Stu Fritz said Konkle had a career season.

"He hit every ball hard, even the outs he made," Fritz said. "He was just a clutch player for us when we needed him to be."

Konkle helped the Flying Dutchmen post a 25-19 overall record this season while hitting .447 with single-season school records for hits with 68, doubles with 17 and RBI with 59. He was named to the All-Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association First Team.

This season marked the 23^rd time a Hope player finished the season as a .400 hitter with a minimum of 50 at-bats. He ranked third all-time behind Jim Klunder's 1988 mark of .471 and Jon Edmondson's 2003 average of .452.

Konkle's 152 at-bats were the most a Flying Dutchmen to bat .400 and 19 more than anyone else in the group.

Konkle is the first Hope baseball player to reach the 50-RBI mark.

Konkle also ranks among Hope's career leaders in several categories:

• 3^rd, 69 walks
• 6^th, 109 runs batted in
• 6^th in on-base percentage - .456
• Tied-7^th, 142 games played
• Tied-9^th, 143 hits
• 10th in career slugging percentage - .515
• Tied-10^th, 10 home runs