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2018 Baseball Roster

4 Ben Chally

  • Position Infield
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Franklin, Tenn.
  • Highschool Geneva/Elgin CC

Biography

2018: Named a member of the First-Team All-Horizon League squad for the second year in a row, the first Panther to achieve that status since Tim Patzman did so in 2009 and 2010 ... batted .276 on the season, starting all 54 games ... recorded 59 hits and scored 34 runs ... set career-highs with four home runs and 33 runs batted in ... hit .311 in Horizon League play and .347 with runners in scoring position ... led team with 19 multi-hit games ... went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and drove in a pair in a win over Canisius Feb. 17 ... hit his first home run as a Panther at Bethune-Cookman Feb. 23 ... three hits and three runs scored two days later in the series ... went deep against Gonzaga March 4 and at UAB March 9 ... three hits and a pair of runs scored in a win over Youngstown State March 17 ... tied his career-best with three RBI (on three hits) at Oakland March 30 ... also had three hits and scored three times at Northern Kentucky April 6 ... outing March 30 started a 9-game hitting streak in which he batted .474 (18-for-38) ... two hits at Iowa April 25 ... drove in three against NKU May 4 and then had three hits against the Norse the next day ... went 4-for-9 with five runs scored and five RBI in the final two games of the regulars season against Oakland ... named to the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll.

• 2018 game-by-game in PDF Format

2017: Burst onto the scene with First-Team All-Horizon League honors, batting .327 on the season ... started and played in 46 games, recording 56 hits, scoring 23 runs and knocking in 23 more ... batting average finished eighth in the Horizon League ... paced the offense in conference action at a .378 clip ... had a hit and RBI in the opener against Illinois Feb. 17 before adding two more hits the next day against Lamar ... had two hits and scored a pair of runs in the win at UT Arlington March 12 ... had an impressive series at Northern Kentucky March 18-19, going 8-for-13 (.615) in the three games, including a season-high three RBI in game two ... posted a season-high four hits against Youngstown State April 13, including a double and a triple ... put together an 11-game hitting streak starting in late April, collecting seven multi-hit outings in the span where he batted .462 (18-for-39) with nine RBI.

• 2017 game-by-game in PDF Format

Prior to MKE: Spent the 2016 season at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Ill., helping lead the Spartans to a runner-up finish at the NJCAA Region IV Tournament ... appeared in 49 games, earning 2016 NJCAA First Team All-Region IV honors after batting .405 with five home runs, 44 runs batted in and 34 runs scored ... spent his freshman year Trevecca Nazarene, a NAIA school in Nashville ... Dean's List member at Elgin.

High School: An Upstate Eight All-Conference honoree as a prep at Geneva Community High School ... in addition to all-league honors, also selected for all-area and all-region accolades each of his last two years ... batted .385 with eight doubles, four home runs and 38 RBI in 35 games his senior season ... also pitched, going 3-0 with five saves and a prefect 0.00 earned run average ... Dean's List member.

Personal: Son of Dan and Marybeth Chally ... a supply chain management major ... chose UWM because of the great baseball program, he liked the coaching staff and the school was a good fit ... career goal is to be involved with baseball for as long as he can as either a player or a coach ... lists hobbies as fishing and music ... played four years of club baseball with DuPage Training Academy ... has done community service work with youth sports ... born August 20, 1995.

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2017Junior

    Infield
    6'0" 190 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2018Senior

    Infield
    6'0" 190 lbs
    4