Alabama Baseball's Series at Pepperdine Canceled, Three-Game Series vs High Point Announced

The Crimson Tide will forego its trip to Malibu due to inclement weather and instead will host the Panthers this weekend in Tuscaloosa.

Joey Blackwell | Feb 22, 2023

Alabama Baseball's Series at Pepperdine Canceled, Three-Game Series vs High Point Announced /

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — If you didn't already have plans for this weekend while Alabama baseball was scheduled to travel to Malibu, Calif. to play at Pepperdine, your calendar is about to fill up.

Due to inclement weather that is slated to take place this weekend in Malibu, the Crimson Tide's three-game series against the Waves has been canceled. In place of the series, Alabama will instead now face the High Point Panthers in an alternate three-game series at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.

The first game of the series will take place on Friday, Feb. 24 at 3 p.m. CT. Game 2 will take place on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. while Game 3 is scheduled for a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday, Feb. 26.

While none of the three games will be broadcast on a television network due to the series' late scheduling, the trio of games will be broadcast on the Crimson Tide Sports Network.

🚨 Feb. 24-26 🚨

Our series at Pepperdine has been canceled. We will now host High Point at #TheJoe this weekend. Details on the change here https://t.co/UaCxbQu5Sh #RollTide pic.twitter.com/JKuyoo27dl
— Alabama Baseball (@AlabamaBSB) February 22, 2023

According to a press release issued by Alabama Athletics, High Point originally had a tournament scheduled to take place this weekend in Riverside, Calif.. However, the tournament was also canceled due to the scheduled weather, and the Panthers opted to instead travel to Tuscaloosa.

All Alabama premium seat season-ticket holders will receive tickets loaded onto their account for all three games. All non-premium seating is general admission.

Joey Blackwell is an award-winning journalist and assistant editor for BamaCentral and has covered the Crimson Tide since 2018. He primarily covers Alabama football, men's basketball and baseball, but also covers a wide variety of other sports. Joey earned his bachelor's degree in History from Birmingham-Southern College in 2014 before graduating summa cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2020 with a degree in News Media. He has also been featured in a variety of college football magazines, including Lindy's Sports and BamaTime.

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