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Home Run Derby aboard the USS Yorktown

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MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) -

The Home Run Derby is always one of the highlights of an All-Star Game and it may be the highlight of this year's South Atlantic League All-Star Game in Charleston.

That's because the first round of the exhibition event was held on the U.S.S. Yorktown at Patriot's Point Monday morning.

Ten players launched balls off the flight deck into the harbor where volunteers on jet skis were watching to scoop them up.

Hagerstown's Matt Skole, Lexington's Matt Duffy, along with Harold Riggins of Asheville and Travis Taijeron of Savannah advanced to Tuesday's finals at Riley Park.

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