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Skeels tabbed Sun Belt Player of the Week

Coastal Carolina baseball redshirt junior Kyle Skeels was tabbed the Community Coffee Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday.

Skeels is off to a great start this season, as the catcher hit .500 over the first three games going 5-for-10 with four walks and one hit-by-pitch. He recorded two doubles, drove in four RBIs and scored three runs in helping lead Coastal Carolina to a 3-0 start.

He also posted a .667 on-base percentage, a .700 slugging percentage and stole one base and threw out the lone would-be base stealer over the weekend.

The starting catcher hit safely in all three games, going 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a stolen base in the season-opening win over VCU and then went 1-for-2 with a double, three walks and an RBI in Saturday's victory over Maryland.

Skeels wrapped up the weekend going 2-for-4 with a double, a walk, three RBIs and a run scored in the 11-2 win over Campbell on Sunday.

The conference award is the first for the Langhorne, Pa. native.

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