The Penn State baseball team's home opener, scheduled for 1 p.m. today, has been canceled due to the weekend's snowfall.

Wet field conditions forced the Nittany Lions, who were supposed to play a doubleheader today against intrastate rival Bucknell, to cancel what would have been the team's first two games of the season at Beaver Field.

This marks the third series of the year the Lions have had to cancel due to poor weather. Penn State had its first two series of the year, consecutive weekends at Charlotte and Virginia, canceled because of snow and rain.

The Lions have been looking for extra games all season to make up for the lost series.

Today's doubleheader was originally slated for a single game, but the Lions added a second game after the first two series were cancelled. Penn State also added a second game to the April 30 series against James Madison.

Penn State will play its home opener against Big Ten rival Ohio State at 3 p.m. Friday at Beaver Field. The Lions (8-10, 3-1 Big Ten) won three of four games at Purdue in their Big Ten opener last weekend to vault to second place in the conference standings, while the sixth-place Buckeyes (11-8, 2-2) split a four-game series against Northwestern in Bradenton, Fla.