Act: New Penn conference opening weekend.

Take two.

This is the scene set for the Penn State club baseball team this weekend.

After having last weekend's New Penn opening-series with Pennsylvania was postponed because of weather, Penn State (4-3) will try again to open conference play tomorrow with a doubleheader against New York University (0-0).

When Penn State opens the weekend against King's College (6-3) today, it will have been 17 days since Penn State's last game. On March 9, the Nittany Lions defeated the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to end a spring break trip to Florida.

"Everyone is restless," Penn State baseball club pitching coach Buck Kicinski said. "We are frustrated as coaches because the weather has not cooperated. We need to play."

The extended time off is not a worry, as far as the team's play is concerned, for Penn State club baseball coach Dan Day.

The team was able to practice outside on Wednesday, and Day said that he saw no reason to believe that the players won't be playing as well as they have been playing in the early part of the season when the team takes the field this weekend against King's College and NYU.

Penn State was 3-0 against NYU during a portion of a seven-game win streak the Lions had at the end of last season.

The Nittany Lions dominated the Bobcats, outscoring them 21-4 in those three games.

Playing in the Northeast, as always, presents the threat of bad weather that could ruin any plans to play a baseball game.

However, the chances of getting the games in is becoming increasingly more likely as the temperatures are beginning to creep toward spring-time norms.

"It's frustrating year-in and year-out," Kicinski said. "For the guys on the team, it is terrible. It makes baseball so sporadic, especially early in the season when you try to build a rhythm, that we aren't able to do that."

Day noted that the team is still ahead of last season's pace, when Penn State did not play a game from March 22 to April 12.