Baseball: Patriot’s Skipworth is on a hot streak

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No one is having a better individual baseball season than 6-foot-4 senior catcher Kyle Skipworth of Riverside Patriot.

His team is 15-0, and he is on a streak of 16 hits in his last 16 at-bats. He also has reached base in 23 consecutive at-bats. On the season, he’s batting .667 (32 for 48) with seven home runs and 27 runs batted in.

In his last five games, he was five for five against Peninsula, four for four against Bloomington, one for one against Norte Vista and Kaiser and four for four against Summit.

To say the least, his performance helps explain why he’s going to be a first-round draft choice in June.

-- Eric Sondheimer

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