Kansas University baseball player Matt Tribble’s 11-game hitting streak proves he can thrive at the plate.

The only problem is, bad weather is keeping down the senior right fielder’s at-bats.

“It’d be nice to have a chance to keep playing and getting those reps in the batters box, because you kind of lose that sense of timing hitting in the cages inside,” Tribble said.

Last season, Tribble set KU’s all-time hit streak when he hit safely in 20 straight games beginning opening day.

As Kansas (12-7-1) begins its three-game series against Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 3 p.m. today, Tribble nearly is on the same track.

Tribble has been held hitless in only three of the Jayhawks’ 20 games, and he was nearly as consistent before his streak began Feb. 6 against Lamar.

Tribble, who has KU’s fourth-best average (.373) and is second on the team in hits with 28, went 13-for-37 in his first nine games and is 15-for-38 during the streak.

“Matt Tribble is on another streak, but he’s been so consistent all year,” KU coach Ritch Price said.

Tribble won’t predict how long his streak might last.

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“I have no idea,” he said. “We’ve been pretty fortunate to play pretty well the last couple of games against Oakland and Creighton.”

Kansas, riding a season-best five-game winning streak, has a stellar .385 batting average in its first five games at Hoglund Ballpark. The Jayhawks are coming off back-to-back 17-run outings in wins against Oakland (Mich.) University.

UW-Milwaukee has yet to play a game this season.

“I know they won their conference two years ago and played in the Nebraska regional and won over 40 games,” Price said.

“Last year was kind of a rebuilding year for them — they started several freshmen. The reports we got on all three of their starting pitchers are they throw from 89 to 92, so they are going to run three really good arms over the weekend.”

Kansas’ probable pitchers this weekend will be senior Ryan Knippschild (2-2, 4.75 earned-run average), who has 25 strikeouts in seven appearances and likely will start today.

Junior Clint Schambach (1-0, 3.86) should get the nod in the second-game, and Price hadn’t yet determined the third starter.